Central City News

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is in the process of interviewing candidates for parish Superintendent of Schools.  The outstanding applicant is Warren Drake, who led the Zachary Community School System for 10 years.  During that time, Zachary was and still today remains the No. 1 school system in Louisiana. While Drake was superintendent, […]

Last Wednesday, three Republican Metro Council members joined with five Democrats to authorize the City of Baton Rouge to block citizens on voting on whether to incorporate St. George. Conservatives and Republicans have been working hard to help create the new City of St. George.  For many of them, it is the best hope we […]

Mayor-President Kip Holden has a new tax proposal, and it is far different from those he has offered in the past.  It is narrowly targeted to five specific needs in the parish and it excludes most of the frills the mayor has offered in the past. • New Mental Health Facility to provide 24-hour emergency […]

Sen. Mary Landrieu is in a heap of trouble in her reelection bid this Saturday, Dec. 6.  Republicans have united behind Congressman Bill Cassidy, and Landrieu appears very vulnerable. Imagine this: Saturday could be the end of the political careers of both Mary Landrieu and Edwin Edwards! In a real sense, this could be the […]

The Republican tidal wave of victories arrived all at once Tuesday night around 10 p.m. By 10:30 p.m., the liberal media was already playing down the victories and cautioning that the Republicans must “work with” President Obama.  That’s amazing, because Obama hasn’t worked with anyone — Republican or Democrat — since he was elected. For […]

In 1996, I had the privilege of serving as the Republican nominee for the United States Senate against the Democrat, Mary Landrieu.  More than 847,000 Louisianians voted for me in that election. Now Sen. Landrieu is on the Nov. 4 election ballot, and our citizens will decide whether to return her to the Senate. In […]

The contrast between Sen. Mary Landrieu and her two Republican opponents could hardly be more stark.  Landrieu is a doctrinaire liberal on almost every issue.  She votes with President Obama 97 percent of the time.  Landrieu’s support of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gives Obama control of the Senate and facilitates Obama in his effort […]

Volunteers working to incorporate the proposed City of St. George and create a new independent school district for Southeast Baton Rouge announced a few days ago that they have more than the 17,045 signatures required to put the proposal on the election ballot for residents of St. George to decide.  However, they plan to work […]

The Metro Council considered but did not vote on a proposed Gay Rights Ordinance at its meeting of Wednesday, July 23.  The proposed is likely to return to the Council’s agenda on Wednesday, Aug. 14. The ordinance purports to codify a new kind of obligation among persons — namely, the obligation not to discriminate based […]

We have the U.S. Constitution, the Louisiana Constitution, the Louisiana Revised Statutes, and our own East Baton Rouge Parish Plan of Government.  All of those laws grant to federal, state, and local governments a vast array of powers, but those documents also contain numerous safeguards that are designed to protect our rights. But what if […]