Capital City News

Last Tuesday, as soon as the U.S. Supreme Court adjourned its hearing on the Constitutionality of Congressman Cleo Fields’ gerrymandered Congressional district, the Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon in Baton Rouge received an important call. The luncheon, a meeting point for Republican leaders in East Baton Rouge Parish, was devoted to the the Supreme Court hearing. […]

FLIPPING THE SCRIPT  It is amazing to see Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill on national television attempting to take credit for the possible overturn of Cleo Fields’ racially gerrymandered Congressional district!   In case anyone has forgotten, it was Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill who WROTE Cleo Fields’ racially […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor St. George Leader There is a structural problem with City-Parish taxes and spending Simply put, here is the problem:  • We have enough tax revenue to pay for the normal operations of the City-Parish government, but tax revenues are not being distributed to agencies where the need is greatest. • Some […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor St. George Leader On October 15, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a suit challenging the racially-gerrymandered Con- gressional district which gave Cleo Fields a seat in Congress and eliminated the only Congressional seat centered in Baton Rouge.   The case, Callais v. Secretary of State Nancy Landry, has […]

The first elected officials for the new City of St. George were sworn in July 1 in modest ceremonies at Grace Life Fellowship Church.  It was an historic day for the people of St. George, some of whom had worked for as long as 13 years to give the people of the area their independence […]

What has been called the most important election in the history of St. George will be on the ballot statewide on Saturday, April 18. It is a constitutional amendment to create the new St. George Community School System. In the early 1990’s, some lawmakers representing East Baton Rouge Parish began a movement to create new […]

By Woody Jenkins Editor St. George Leader Dishonesty led the Louisiana Legislature to adopt a Congressional reapportionment plan that took away Baton Rouge’s seat in Congress and left Speaker of the House Mike Johnson in a very precarious position. A Stolen Congressional Seat.  We in the Baton Rouge area had our Congressional seat stolen from […]

After 13 years of trials and tribulations, the people of the new City of St. George are only one step away from putting into place the city government they have worked so hard to create. On Saturday, March 29, the voters elected Dustin Yates as Mayor of the City of St. George along with City […]

Voters in the City of St. George and throughout East Baton Rouge Parish will face a new proposed tax on the ballot on Saturday, May 3. District Attorney Hillar Moore is a proposing a 4-mil property tax to fund the operations of his office. Moore described his current funding situation as a crisis, due to […]

All four proposed amendments to the Louisiana Constitution went down to defeat March 29 by a landslide.  The most important was Amendment No. 2, which was heralded by Gov. Jeff Landry as “fiscal reform.”  Actually, the 115-page constitutional amendment, the longest in state history, was a hodge-podge of good and bad. Shall We Amend La. […]