Archive | May, 2014

St. George Plans Forum On Tuesday

The St. George incorporation movement will hold a community-wide meeting this Tuesday, May 6 at Woodlawn Baptist.Chairman Norman Browning said the event will provide a real opportunity to ask questions and have a dialogue.  The forum begins at 6:30 p.m.  Voters can drive through to sign petitions starting at 5:30.

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Celtic, Costco Were Never Within City of St. George

Metro Councilman John Delgado and some Baton Rouge media outlets have been pushing the story that businesses in the unincorporated areas of the parish are lining up to be annexed into the City of Baton Rouge. The message is that business is unhappy with being part of the proposed City of St. George and is […]

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Taxes Collected in St. George Are Heavily Subsidizing the City of Baton Rouge

In the current fiscal year, more than $80 million will be collected in local taxes from the area within the boundaries of the proposed City of St. George. What happens to those dollars after they are received by the City-Parish Treasurer’s office has been the subject of a growing controversy. St. George organizer Norman Browning […]

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John Chauvin Press Box at Southeastern

John Chauvin Press Box at Southeastern

— Everybody who visits the Red Stick Farmers Market knows Francis Chauvin.  She’s the friendly lady from Hammond who bakes the best pies.  She’s also bright-eyed and eager to tell the latest news from Hammond, Ponchatoula, and the Florida Parishes. But not many who visit the farmers’ market know that Francis Chauvin is much more […]

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Mall Annexation Threatens St. George FD

Mall Annexation Threatens St. George FD

Mayor-President Kip Holden was reportedly planning to hold a news conference last week to announce the annexation of the Mall of Louisiana into the City of Baton Rouge, which some believe would have been a serious blow to the proposed City of St. George. The same report said that opposition from some members of the Metro Council […]

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Legislature Hobbles Two Anti-St. George Bills But James Bill on Parishwide Vote Is Still Alive

Legislature Hobbles Two Anti-St. George Bills But James Bill on Parishwide Vote Is Still Alive

Efforts to incorporate the proposed City of St. George have come under full-fledged assault in the current session of the Louisiana Legislature with a number of bills to make it more difficult for a new city to incorporate. Of the three major bills that would hamper St. George, two have been amended to make them […]

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Time to Go Snake Hunting at State Capitol

Time to Go Snake Hunting at State Capitol

Rep. Ford Stinson, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1936 to 1972 with a little time out during World War II to go kill Nazis, was one of the legislature’s all-time best bill-killers. Legislative sessions are defined by the media based on what passes.  That’s “news.”  But very often the real news […]

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St. George’s Goal: Get Signatures Now!

St. George’s Goal: Get Signatures Now!

St. George incorporation spokesman Lionel Rainey III told the Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge last Tuesday that July 23, 2014, used to be goal for supporters but now it is a hard deadline. “For months, we said that we hope to have the signatures to put the incorporation of St. George on the […]

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Three Bills with Major Impact on City, Parish

Three Bills with Major Impact on City, Parish

The Louisiana Legislature is considering several bills that could have a major effect on local government and the courts in East Baton Rouge Parish.  Three of them are HB 1151, which would elect City Court judges citywide; HB 1178 which would reduce the EBR school board to seven members, and HB 1212 to vote on […]

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Trapped in the Middle of Rouzan

Trapped in the Middle of Rouzan

In the legal system today, getting justice is slow, difficult, and expensive.  That is one of the lessons Danny Hoover and Dr. Bob Welch have learned during a lonely, seven-year struggle to have the Metro Council live by the laws it has written.  When the Hoovers and Welches found themselves enclosed by Tommy Spinosa’s Rouzan […]

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