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Gov. Jindal Praises Central’s Giving Spirit CENTRAL — Gov. Bobby Jindal attended Cooking in Central Saturday and praised the Central community for its efforts to aid victims of the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.  Jindal said Central is an example of America at its best.  An emotional Moore elementary school principal Kathy Knowles said Central’s gesture […]

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana Family Forum and LSU head coach Les Miles went “Over the Edge” for adoption last week.  Their goal was to bring attention to the need to reduce red tape in the adoption process and help find permanent families for 100 Louisiana children. In order to get the discussion going, the pro-family […]

  Central’s School Superintendent  Addresses MFP, 2013 Legislature EDITOR’S NOTE: Central schools Supt. Mike Faulk spoke to the Baton Rouge Press Club just before the end of the legislative session.  Faulk began as the first employee of the Central Community School System in 2007 and hired 400 employees.  The Central system is now the No. […]

SOUTHEAST — Supporters of the proposed Southeast Baton Rouge Community School District said Wednesday the recently-completed legislative session was far more successful than most people realize. Norman Browning, chairman of Local Schools for Local Children, said the passage of SB 199 has placed the new school district in the Louisiana Revised Statutes.  “That is done.  […]

Only Voters Decide Issue of Whether to Create Municipality SOUTHEAST — The battle to create a new community school system in the southeast part of East Baton Rouge Parish is about to take on a entirely new dimension. Now supporters of the new district say they are considering launching a drive to incorporate Southeast Baton […]

LSU Coach Says It’s Time to Get Serious about Adoption of Kids BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Family Forum says more than 100,000 children are available for adoption in the United States, including many with special needs.  Here in Louisiana, more than 500 children could be adopted, and the Family Forum has set a goal […]

GOP Nabs ex-General Counsel of Democratic Party BATON ROUGE — Over the past week, three key Democratic officials have announced they are switching to Republican.  Two of them are black conservatives. State Sen. Elbert Guillory of Opelousas announced his change of party registration at a national conference of black conservative leaders held in Baton Rouge […]

Pledges to Fight Crime, Improve Roads With Open, Honest City Administration by Woody Jenkins CENTRAL — Central businessman Jr. Shelton has announced his candidacy for Mayor of the City of Central in municipal election scheduled for Saturday, April 5, 2014.  Shelton narrowly lost the mayor’s job to Mac Watts, the current mayor, in 2010. Shelton […]

Parents Magazine, Healing Place Lead Oklahoma Efforts BATON ROUGE — Parents Magazine and Healing Place Church have been organizing local businesses, churches, and individuals who want to aid victims of the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. Donations of new crayons, colored pencils, bubbles, board games, books, balls, book bags, band-aids, sippy cups, bottles, pacifiers, toothbrushes, hairbrushes, […]

With Sale of Advocate, Capital City News Is Now Only Locally-Owned Newspaper in BR BATON ROUGE — With the sale of the Advocate newspaper to New Orleans businessman John Georges, the Capital City News is now the only newspaper in Baton Rouge that is locally owned. The New Orleans Times Picayune is also expanding into […]