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Negaduck, Cousin of TV Reality Show Star “Darkwing Duck” Interested In Launching Campaign for US Congress
According to The News Star, a man known colloquially as Negaduck and a cousin of America’s most well-known Duck families is considering running to replace Congressman Vance McAllister, who decided to forgo re-election after surveillance footage showing him and a family friend kissing one another in the Congressman’s district office. Although Darkwing Duck, the family patriarch, has remained relatively quiet in recent years, he has branched out into politics. Many attribute McAllister’s surprise success at the polls to the endorsement he picked up from another local family patriarch, Willie Robertson, who, like Darkwing, earned millions from his family reality show and became a worldwide celebrity.…
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Is Big Oil Secretly Negotiating A Settlement To Pay For Coastal Damages?
On April 25th, Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell was a guest on “The Jim Engster Show,” and General Caldwell spoke candidly about his recent dispute with State Senator Robert Adley (R- Big Oil) and the continuing controversy surrounding the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East’s (SLFPA-E) landmark lawsuit against 97 oil and gas companies. Quoting from the transcript (bold mine): Caldwell: Well, Robert Adley is who you see is who you get. He’s just an everyday guy that is vehement about his own interests, and he represents the big oil interest. And I’m a lawyer, so whatever the law is, that’s what I…
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Louisiana Will Miss Fred Schwartz (1951-2014)
Yesterday, American architect and urban planning visionary Frederic Schwartz died at the age of 63 after a long battle with cancer. Fred’s work took him all over the world: When I first met him, he was designing airport terminals in Asia and schools in Africa and memorials in New York and, of course, redevelopment plans in New Orleans. Although he was first introduced to those of us in Louisiana during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he was already, by that point, a “starchitect” himself, a label I am sure he would have never been comfortable with. Regardless, he certainly earned…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
