Capital City News

BIC Alliance and its marketing partners sponsored a private showing of the new movie “Lone Survivor” and invited Baton Rouge area veterans to pack the Grand Cinema theater Jan. 17.  BIC chairman Earl Heard said it was a way to say thank you to veterans, who are often forgotten. The movie, which tells the true […]

In 1972, 132 delegates from throughout Louisiana gathered in Baton Rouge to begin the process of writing a new state constitution.  They studied, worked, and quarreled for more than a year before completing their work and submitting the proposed constitution to the public in a referendum.  In April 1974, the new constitution was ratified by […]

According to state law, the Republican Party in each parish is governed by a Parish Executive Committee, or PEC, which is elected by the registered Republican voters of the parish in March of Presidential election years for a four-year term. One of the primary responsibilities of a PEC is to interview and endorse Republican candidates […]

Zachary Rogers may only be 19 years old and a senior at Woodlawn High School, but he is a strong voice for incorporating St. George and creating the Southeast school district.  Zachary testified at the legislature last May in favor of the new school system and gave TV interviews.  Now he’s busy waving signs and […]

  Opponents of incorporating the proposed City of St. George gained a round of publicity this week with a rally of more than 250 people at St. Patrick Catholic Church. But behind the headlines and unreported by the media was something supporters of St. George say they find disturbing — few of those in attendance […]

Erin Kelley is excited, because she’s getting married this week, but she’s also very worried about the family she hopes to raise.  She and her husband-to-be have just bought a home in Oak Hills in the proposed City of St. George. “How are we going to pay $30,000 a year in tuition to send our […]

An inquiry by the Capital City News has revealed that the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has no bonded indebtedness. That’s good news for taxpayers in EBR and in the proposed St. George School District.  It means that all school facilities in the proposed school district are already paid for, and there is no […]

Both the Baton Rouge Advocate and the Times-Picayune voted the movement to incorporate the City of St. George as the No. 1 news story in the capital region during 2013.  But the story is growing even larger every day. Here is a timeline of events likely to unfold during 2014: • Petition Drive.  Every Saturday, […]

COL. ROB MANESS, USAF (ret.) brought his candidacy for the United States Senate to Baton Rouge Tuesday with a call to balance the federal government, limit the federal government to its lawful powers, support the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, protect the free enterprise system, and strengthen the national defense. Maness spoke to a […]

Louis (Woody) Jenkins, editor and publisher of the Central City News and Capital City News was on hand in Phoenix, AZ, at the National Newspaper Association’s 127th Annual Convention to accept one of the organization’s top awards for 2013 The Central City News received the General Excellence Award as one of the Top 4 community […]