Capital City News

By Patty Cook, St. George City Council The proposed St. George Home Rule Charter includes several potential benefits emphasizing efficient, localized governance, and strong public engagement.  Here are some of the pros: 1. Balanced Representation • The City Council includes both district-elected and at-large members, ensuring that local neighborhoods have representation while maintaining a citywide […]

By Chris Rials I am the co-incorporator of the City of St. George and Treasurer of the St. George Transition District. I am opposed to the St. George Home Rule Charter (HRC) that will be on the March 29, 2025, ballot. Let me state right at the begin- ning the four major problems with the […]

By Michael Lunsford, Citizens for a New Louisiana This is the “tax reform” special session. It includes a second bite at the recent failed attempt to call a constitutional convention. Readers might remember the 2024 regular session when Louisiana’s freshly-minted Congressman-elect Cleo Fields refused to take the matter up in the Senate and Governmental Affairs […]

If there was one thing Coach Sid Edwards and former Rep. Ted James agreed on in the run up to the Nov. 5 election, it was that the City of Baton Rouge needed more police officers and better pay in order to attract and keep the best possible people on the job. Edwards said Baton […]

Make no mistake. Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, was a significant day in the history of the City of St. George and East Baton Rouge Parish. Like a massive tsunami, voters in St. George and across the parish crashed through strongholds and flattened the political power structure of City-Parish government. The parish will likely never be […]

Woody Jenkins, Editor St. George Leader  Scott McKay of TheHayride.com offered a theory in his talk on the races for President and Mayor-President at the Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Tuesday.   He calls it the Fun Rule.  His theory is simple: Forget the polls, the mailings, the TV spots, the lies, the […]

 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 […]

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 […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor, St. George Leader – Baton Rouge The political class in East Baton Rouge Parish has been fond of saying lately that it is “impossible” for a Republican to win the race for Mayor-President.  That’s an amazing statement considering the results of the election last fall: •Republican Nancy Landry carried EBR last fall […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor, St. George Leader – Baton Rouge One of the  primary reasons for starting the City of St. George was to lay the foundation for the creation of an independent school district for the southeast part of the parish. In fact, when then-Sen. Bodi White began discussing the need for a new school […]