Archive | September, 2015
Candidates Tell Plans at Chamber EBR

Candidates Tell Plans at Chamber EBR

Robert Cipriano, who is running against incumbent Rep. Steve Carter in House District 68, said upsetting a powerful incumbent would send a message that voters want fundamental changes as the State Capitol. Cipriano was one of five candidates for local or state office who brought their messages to the business owners at a candidates’ forum […]

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Candidates Seek Republican Endorsement

Candidates Seek Republican Endorsement

With an increasing number of candidates for public office running as Republicans in a state without party primaries, the Republican Party’s endorsement has growing influence. Candidates in the Oct. 24 open primary have been busy campaigning, and most of the Republican candidates have also made presentations to the East Baton Rouge Republican Parish Executive Committee, […]

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EBR GOP Backs Caldwell for AG, Cites Conservative Stand on Issues

EBR GOP Backs Caldwell for AG, Cites Conservative Stand on Issues

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has endorsed Attorney General Buddy Cald- well for reelection in the Oct. 24 open primary.  EBR Republican chairman Woody Jenkins said Caldwell is well qualified by his experience of 29 years as a District Attorney, eight years as Attorney General, and thousands of criminal cases to continue […]

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Was Istrouma’s 1955 Team Greatest Ever?

Was Istrouma’s 1955 Team Greatest Ever?

Was the 1955 Istrouma High football team the greatest in Louisiana history?  As long as football is played in this state, that will be debated. Louisiana has only had one Heisman Trophy winner — Billy Cannon — and he starred on the 1955 team, which went undefeated and won the State Championship. 2015 is the […]

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Billy Cannon Tells the Rest of His Story

Billy Cannon Tells the Rest of His Story

When I was a child the first college football hero I remember having was LSU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon. Back in those days there was no ESPN. No 50 plus games a week on TV, and being at that age, I lived in New York and California, it’s hard to recollect how Billy became […]

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Radio Legend Bob Furlow Passes Away

Radio Legend Bob Furlow Passes Away

Legendary Baton Rouge radio broadcaster Bob Furlow, 76, died Aug. 23, 2015, after a struggle with pancreatic cancer.  At WLCS, Furlow hosted the No. 1-rated morning show in Baton Rouge in the 1960’s and was a force in the Baton Rouge media market until his death. Bob Furlow was a proud graduate of Istrouma High […]

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Candidates Vie for Endorsement

Candidates Vie for Endorsement

All three Republican candidates for Governor in the Oct. 24 primary sought the endorsement of the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish, which held its endorsement process during August. The party, which is governed by the 17-member Republican Parish Executive   Committee,   or   PEC,   asked each candidate to fill out a lengthy questionnaire, […]

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Bob Furlow Was Great Representative of NBR

Bob Furlow Was Great Representative of NBR

Over the past 50 years or so, few people have been better representatives of North Baton Rouge than Bob Furlow, the 1958 Istrouma grad and silver-tongued radio newsman and disc jockey at WLCS who was the No. 1 radio personality in this market in the 1960’s.  He went on to have a successful career in […]

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60 Years Later, Istrouma Team Is Legendary

60 Years Later, Istrouma Team Is Legendary

There are a few — a very few — sports teams that live on in the memory of fans all their lives and whose legends are passed down through the generations.  One is LSU’s national championship team of 1958 and another is the Chinese Bandits, the third-string defensive unit on that championship team, which so […]

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Republicans Endorse Caldwell for AG

Republicans Endorse Caldwell for AG

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has endorsed Buddy Caldwell for reelection as Attorney General in the Oct. 24 primary. The party cited Caldwell’s conservative stand on 12 key issues: • Filed suit to block Obamacare; • Filed suit to protect the Louisiana Constitution’s ban on same-sex marriage; • Sought injunction to block […]

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