Capital City News

BATON ROUGE — Supporters of the right to keep and bear arms scored big victories in the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice at the State Capitol Wednesday. The committee approved seven bills strengthening the right to keep and bear arms and killed two bills which would have weakened it. The committee approved […]

Should EBR Be a Parish Where There Is No Room For Working Mid-Income Families With Children? by Woody Jenkins, Editor BATON ROUGE — It was great to see the announcement that IBM will be moving an office here and hiring hundreds of workers.  It is also exciting to know that some of the plants along the Mississippi River […]

BATON ROUGE — A survey of the top-performing public school districts in the Baton Rouge area — Zachary, Central, West Feliciana, Livingston, Ascension, and St. Tammany — indicates that only one of them has magnet schools. The one exception is Ascension, which has authorized magnet school programs on the west bank of the parish in […]

Can SE District Bring Families Back to EBR? BATON ROUGE — Supporters of the proposed Southeast Baton Rouge Community School District say the new school system can provide an outstanding education to children in the Woodlawn-Parkview area.  But they say it can help do something else as well: Begin to bring families with children back […]

BATON ROUGE — While East Baton Rouge Parish has lost children for generations, the nearby parishes of Livingston and Ascension parishes have been growing rapidly, and the number of school age children has also grown dramatically.  In Livingston Parish, the school age population (age 5 to 17) has increased from 10,929 in 1970 to 25,658 […]

Since 1970, EBR’s Population Grew from 285,167 to 440,171; Yet, Number of Children FELL by Woody Jenkins, Editor BATON ROUGE — An analysis of U. S. Census data from 1960 to 2010 tells an amazing story of East Baton Rouge Parish’s disappearing children. Over the past 50 years, the population of the parish has grown by […]

Proponents Hope To Gather 3,500 Signatures for Incorporation Vote WATSON — Neighbors in Action, a group of citizens in the Livingston Parish community of Watson, officially kicked off a petition drive Saturday to give voters in Watson the option to incorporate as a city.  The group’s chairman, Gene Baker, said more than 300 voters signed the first day […]

CENTRAL — Central schools Supt. Mike Faulk said Tuesday that he has retained a national search firm to find qualified applicants for principal of Central High School and for  a new supervisor of curriculum for the school system. Faulk said the firm of Wray & Associates will conduct the search, interview applicants, and check out […]

Rep. Barry Ivey Sworn in, Scores Early Victory on First Major Bill by Woody Jenkins, Editor BATON ROUGE — Barry Ivey was sworn in as Central’s new state representative on Monday, April 6 to the applause of his colleagues in the Louisiana House of Representatives.  Then, just a week later, he did what few freshman lawmakers do — […]

Opinion  HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY TO REVOLUTIONIZE LOUISIANA ECONOMY. Gov. Bobby Jindal announced yesterday his support for repealing Louisiana’s individual and corporate income taxes — without any increase in sales or other taxes. This is the first time since Louisiana adopted a state income tax that a governor has announced his support of its repeal.  This is […]