Capital City News

If the annexation of parts of The Mall of Louisiana goes into effect June 13, as envisioned by the Metro Council, the City of Baton Rouge may have to build a new Fire Station and a new Police Substation to cover The Mall of Louisiana. At present, law enforcement at The Mall is provided by […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Last year, Norman Browning predicted the battle to incorporate the proposed City of St. George wouldn’t be easy and that the Baton Rouge establishment would throw everything they could at St. George to try to prevent the issue from ever coming to a vote of the people. Since then, the incorporation movement has faced the […]

Patriots Day 2014 in Baton Rouge honored Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine, who was ridiculed when he replaced a Bible in front of the Harris County Courthouse. But, despite the ridicule, Devine was subsequently elected to the Texas Supreme Court in a statewide election.Devine told the group assembled at the Burden Rural Life Museum […]