Capital City News

The St. George Charter Commission has submitted a report to Mayor Dustin Yates and the St. George City Council detailing its recommendations. The proposed charter is expected to be posted on the city’s website, stgeorgela.gov in the next few days. In an interview with the St. George Leader, Mayor Yates discussed highlights of the proposed charter. […]

Large donations by gambling interests to Mayor-President candidate Ted James have raised questions about whether the candidate plans to bring back video poker and video poker truck stops to East Baton Rouge Parish.  Voters removed video poker from the parish in a referendum in 1996. According to reports filed with the Louisiana Board of Ethics, […]

 Dwayne Rogers, Treasurer BREC As a Christian, my faith leads me to believe that “each of us will give an account of himself to God.” (Romans 14:12) There really is nothing of greater importance to me, as has been the case most of my adult life. While I understand not everyone believes we are accountable […]

Coach Sid Edwards grew up in North Baton Rouge and graduated from Redemptorist High School. He said he thought he knew his old neighborhood quite well until he returned as head coach at Istrouma High School in fall 2023. “My eyes were opened when I started having to carry some of my kids home after […]

Since being elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2011, Rep. Ted James has led the opposition to self determination for the people of St. George.   Rep. James didn’t just sit quietly and vote against St. George. Rather, he took the lead in introducing legislation and speaking against the incorporation of the City […]

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber, or BRAC, has released the results of a poll on the race for Mayor-President, and it is sending shock waves through the political class in Baton Rouge. Incumbent Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, who is seeking her third four-year term, polled a dismal 29 per cent. Former Rep. Ted James, who […]

Scott McKay – The Hayride I hinted that this was coming in my signing-off-before-the-hurricane-comes post two weeks ago, and I noted the results of the poll above in the Baton Rouge mayoral race, but here’s the further discussion of the topic I promised. The poll in question was a JMC Analytics survey, and it dropped […]

If you like what’s going on in Baton Rouge, you should stick with Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome.   Under her administration, our hometown has one of the highest murder rates in the United States. Crime has become an epidemic, made worse by the arrival of gangs in many of our neighborhoods. In some areas, people […]

St. George Mayor  Dustin Yates told the Baton Rouge Press Club this week that St. George will be a very different kind of city. Importantly, almost all city services will be provided by a private company, he said.  One of the first privatized cities in the United States was Sandy Springs, GA.  The only such […]

The St. George City Council has moved rapidly over the past two months to lay the foundation for the new city’s government. Some of the most important actions were: • Named Lorraine Beaman as City Clerk and Sheri Morris as City Attorney • Named The Advocate as legal journal • Created a Planning & Zoning […]