CenLamar | Est. 2006

Potentially Very Good News. I’d heard this was in the works, and I am glad that they were able to pull this off. Will it be effective? Not sure. But it’s a start. And it puts Alexandria in the same league for developers and investors as other Louisiana cities, though GoZone incentives are still way better. From today’s TT: Designation aims to spur downtown development in Alexandria By Jim Leggett A new designation for at least part of downtown Alexandria should encourage private investment through federal-wage credits and tax deductions, said Heather Urbena, executive director of the Kisatchie-Delta Regional Planning…

What Do You Think of Steven Colbert’s Roast of President Bush? Click here to watch. Note: The entire performance is about 25 minutes long. I figure that since the big blogs were talking about this LAST week, we should probably play a little catch up.

I generally hate to post entire articles, but this is an interesting follow-up to Farrar’s anti-Town Talk bill: Bill allowing Rapides governments to use Web sites as official journal dies in committee By Mike Hasten BATON ROUGE – After accusing a Town Talk employee of lying and indicating that he didn’t trust the House Municipal Affairs Committee, Rep. Rick Farrar wasn’t surprised that the panel killed his bill seeking to allow Rapides Parish governmental bodies to use their own Web sites to publish legal notices. State law requires legal notices to be published in an official journal with paid circulation.…