CenLamar | Est. 2006

Anyone hear Bill Clinton talk about Anthony Mangun today on CNN? It was something about how Mangun “confessed” to Clinton, who called himself, “the world’s most well-known sinner,” that he had “voted for Bush.” Perhaps he wasn’t talking about Mangun… but anyone else know a close friend of Clinton’s who is a Louisiana Pentecostal preacher?

Plans Cost City $385,000 (And Why Naming Districts Won’t Matter to Developers) Billy Gunn’s article in the TT this morning tells most of us something we already knew: The City’s so-called master plan(s) has cost a ton of money and has yet to produce anything tangible. Myron Lawson claims that information on downtown condo conversion projects will be revealed later this month (and I can’t speak to our project… because I just don’t know how far along we actually are in the planning stages… right now, it’s up to architects and engineers). But I will say that of the conversion…

Analysis: Next Alexandria mayor will have problems to tackle (Or Quarterbacking the City of Alexandria) What will Alexandria’s new mayor inherit when he or she takes office in December? Money shouldn’t be a problem. Rising tax receipts have expanded the budget surplus, or “fund balance,” to about $12 million entering the 2006-07 fiscal year that starts May 1. And everyone wants to take credit for this. There will be plenty of economic activity. This year, railroad tank cars will start rolling off the assembly line at Union Tank Car, with employment eventually climbing to more than 800. Cleco will have…