Central City News

By Woody Jenkins, Editor Central City News It was the fall of 1963.  Morton Blackwell and I were sitting in his car in the parking lot of Alessi’s Drive-In at the corner of Florida Blvd. at North Foster.  Morton was the College Republican national director, and he had just appointed me to be the first […]

 On Tuesday, Oct. 14 as soon as the U.S. Supreme Court adjourned its hearing on the Constitutionality of Congressman Cleo Fields’ gerrymandered Congressional district, the Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon in Baton Rouge received an important call. The luncheon, a meeting point for Republican leaders in East Baton Rouge Parish, was devoted to the Supreme Court […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor Central City News FLIPPING THE SCRIPT  It is amazing to see Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill on national television attempting to take credit for the possible overturn of Cleo Fields’ racially gerrymandered Congressional district!   In case anyone has forgotten, it was Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor Central City News  Last week, for at least the 10th time in the last couple of months, a Central resident told me, “I don’t care about Baton Rouge!” We had been discussing the Baton Rouge City Police, the shortage of 150 officers, and the BRPD’s remarkably low pay scale. “I don’t […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor Central City News There is a structural problem with City-Parish taxes and spending Simply put, here is the problem:  • We have enough tax revenue to pay for the normal operations of the City-Parish government, but tax revenues are not being distributed to agencies where the need is greatest. •Some agencies […]

 Woody Jenkins editor, Central City News It’s great to have our speaker, former Congressman Garret Graves, at the Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon.  It’s unusual to call him “former” Congressman because I feel he should still be our Congressman. He’ll be talking today about the President’s Great Big Beautiful Bill that has passed and other issues.  […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor Central City News Facing his first real controversy as Mayor-President, Coach Sid Edwards walked into a packed meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Parish on Tuesday, Feb. 25. It was a standing room only crowd composed of all major news outlets in the Capital City, a large […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor Central City News The controversy over funding the parish library system is just the beginning of a conversation that has to play out over the next few years in East Baton Rouge Parish. The reality is this: Local government has plenty of money, enough money to provide a high level of […]

By William Most, Attorney at Law Louisiana voters should beware: On March 29, 2025, they will be asked whether to approve changes to the Louisiana Constitution. But what they won’t be told is that some of those changes would seriously narrow constitutional protections for church and religious organizations’ property.   During a two-week special session […]

Qualifying will be held Wednesday, Jan. 29 to Friday, Jan. 31 for candidates in the first municipal elections to be held for the City of St. George Voters in the newly-incorporated city will go to the polls on Saturday, March 29 to elect the Mayor, Police Chief, and seven members of the St. George City […]