CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • LSUS Professor Jeff Sadow’s Stunningly Dishonest Defense of Governor Jindal’s Tax Giveaway

    Throughout the last several years, as anyone who follows Louisiana politics can tell you, whenever Governor Bobby Jindal’s policies are challenged, you can count on blogger and LSUS Associate Professor Jeff Sadow to rise to Jindal’s defense. Sadow has published hundreds of thinly-sourced and poorly-researched screeds on his website Between the Lines, screeds that are often reposted on other conservative-leaning websites and blogs, screeds that attempt to intellectually justify Jindal’s policies by referencing the work of none other than LSUS Professor Jeff Sadow. Suffice it to say, I’ve never been impressed with Sadow’s blog or the integrity of his self-referential “scholarship”…

  • Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy’s Innovative Crime Prevention Initiative: “A 21st Century Lighthouse”

    Earlier this week, Greg Saville, an internationally-renowned expert in Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (also known as CPTED) and SafeGrowth, published a guest column on his website by Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy, “SafeAlex: A 21st Century Lighthouse.” SafeAlex is Mayor Roy’s new and innovative crime prevention initiative, and, according to Saville, it is the very first program in the nation that “explicitly incorporates” SafeGrowth as a strategy to combat crime and enhance community development. Although the program is still in its infancy, the results are staggering. As recently reported in The Town Talk, crime in Alexandria has noticeably decreased since the program…

  • Bobby Jindal Proposes Nation’s Highest Sales Tax Rate to Subsidize Corporations and Wealthy Patrons

    I. Today, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal proposed the single largest, one-time tax increase in Louisiana history, an across-the-board 3% increase in state sales taxes. If approved and passed into law, Louisiana would have the highest combined sales tax rate in the United States, an average of at least 11.84% (an aggregate that includes both state and local sales taxes). Currently, according to the non-partisan Tax Foundation, Louisiana, at 8.84%, already has the third highest average sales tax rate in the country. According to Forbes, only four other municipalities, all of which are located in Arizona, have higher rates. In fifth place, the…