Capital City News

Our newspaper’s battle for access to public records of CH2MHill appears to be coming to an end.  After three and a half long years of legal battles, CH2MHill has agreed in court filings to provide the public records which we requested in March 2010. We are supposed to receive those records today.  We have already […]

As a graduate of Istrouma High School, I have always felt close to the school, even though it fell on hard times back in the late 1970’s.  Two years ago, it was determined to be a “Failing School” and was taken away from the East Baton Rouge Parish School System by the State of Louisiana. […]

While President Obama and the left like to pretend that they oppose bullying with all their hearts and souls, the truth is far darker: The left is the greatest purveyor of bullying in modern American history. Bullying has morphed into the left’s go-to tactic, as they attempt to quash their opponents through fear, threat of […]

On this, the first day of the new school year, my mind races back six years to August 2007 — the first day of class for students attending the newly-formed Central community school system.  What a momentous time it was!  There was a feeling of exuberance, as though the Berlin Wall had just come crumbling […]

It’s not very popular and certainly not politically correct to talk about the problems in your own community.  But if we aren’t honest with ourselves, the consequences will be very grave indeed. Despite all the hoopla and Chamber of Commerce rhetoric, this parish and this city are so close to tipping over the edge and […]

Until recently, there was one American virtue that almost everyone agreed with.  That virtue was hard work.  People from every generation, at every income level, of every race, and of every political philosophy agreed that our lives and the future of our country have to be founded on hard work. But nobody talks about hard […]

  With Population  of 450,000, EBR Shouldn’t Have to Share with NOLA by Woody Jenkins, Editor BATON ROUGE — On Monday, the new publisher of the Advocate, John Georges, spoke at length about his plans for the Advocate at the Baton Rouge Press Club and thereby invited public comment. Basically, he seems to be on […]

No One Can View This Documentary Without Realizing We Have Problem by Woody Jenkins, Editor BATON ROUGE — Supporters of the proposed Southeast Baton Rouge Community School System have released a dramatic video that documents violence and other illegal activities in public schools such as Woodlawn, Broadmoor, and Tara High Schools. The film is a […]

  Trapped by Its Own Narrow Worldview, EBR Clings to One Notion: Zachary and Central Do Not Exist by Woody Jenkins, Editor BATON ROUGE — As people in Southeast Baton Rouge await the action of the Louisiana House on legislation to create the new Southeast Baton Rouge Community School District, they must be thinking to […]

Liberal Orthodoxy Now In Full Retreat as Facts Show Consequences  Of a Bankrupt Ideology by Woody Jenkins, Editor BATON ROUGE — The events of the past few weeks have brought the roof down not only on the Obama Administration but on the entire liberal movement. How can anyone in his right mind continue to support […]