Yesterday, during the Financial and Legal Affairs meeting which he chairs, Alexandria City Councilman Chuck Fowler has these words of wisdom on the legal bills which shows exactly what he thinks of transparency: CHUCK FOWLER ON MEETING WITH THE CITY AT... »
FINANCE AND LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE In a strange move, the Alexandria City Council approved the hiring of two lawyers, Misty Antoon and Mr. Tim Hardy, without their rates being specified and leaving it up to Alexandria City Attorney Chuck Johnson to de... »
Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) President and Alexandria native Dan Juneau and Jim Patterson, LABI vice president of government relations, brought their tour of the state with word of its legislative push for the upcoming Session ... »
After there being no online City Notebook last week by Town Talk reporter Bret McCormick, one appears today. Welcome back Bret. QUE'IN ON THE RED Bret continues with his job of painting Alexandria Mayor Jacques M. Roy and his administration in a false ... »
Alexandria Mayor Jacques Maurice Roy has a bicycle path planned for Bolton Ave. (See: "Our View: Movement on retooling Bolton Avenue in Alexandria is welcome"). This has been a long held plan of Jacques' to turn Alexandria into a pedestrian and bicycle... »
Alexandria Mayor Jacques M. Roy held a "press conference" yesterday to once again address the Que'in on the Red barbecue festival. (See: "Alexandria mayor not giving up on Que'in on the Red festival"). We moved from the festival's future being doubtful... »
The Town Talk editorial today, entitled "Our View: In lean times, Alexandria's tasty festival goes under the knife", was about our present lean economic times led to the possible demise of Alexandria's Que'in on the Red barbecue festival. As you will ... »
Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy said that Alexandria's premier festival, Que'in on the Red, will not take place this month, and its future is unclear. (See: "Que'in on the Red festival's future is cloudy"). Jacques did say that it might be held later dur... »
Cleco Corp. on Wednesday announced a new management structure for its regulated utility subsidiary, Cleco Power LLC.: Keith Crump will become senior vice president of commercial operations, while Bill Fontenot will become senior vice president of utili... »
"The splintered relationship between City-Parish President Joey Durel's administration and the current City-Parish Council leadership came to a head Tuesday night when the two sides argued publically about a councilman's pet project and Durel's refusal... »
Alexandria Mayor Jacques "Il Duce" Roy plans to restore the glory of ancient Rome right here in Alexandria, Louisiana by building, with our tax dollars, a bunch of monuments. Of course Jacques should remember that the real Benito Mussolini was killed a... »
Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy proposed sites of memorials for the Holocaust, World War II, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a civil rights "allegory" park gave tour recently to members of the Alexandria Human Relations Commission and other interested... »
I wrote this letter to the state Ethics Administration, the Louisiana Attorney General, and Rapides Parish District Attorney Jam Downs concerning Alexandria City Councilman Jerry Jones' performance in front of the television at the last City Council me... »
You watch this and see if Alexandria City Councilman Jerry Jones doesn't look like he got caught in some headlights: »
