Central City News

On election night, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, Louisiana voters went to bed after learning Republicans had won huge majorities in the Louisiana Senate and House of Representatives. Final returns showed the new Senate would have 27 Republicans and 12 Democrats, while the House would have 68 Republicans, 35 Democrats, and two with no party affiliation. […]

 Conservatives have had working control of the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish since 2012. Now their influence in the party has been extended for at least another four years. Almost the entire membership of the 17-member Republican Parish Executive Committee has been reelected without opposition. The committee, which is composed of conservatives, includes […]

  Republican gubernatorial candidate Eddie Rispone carried most of Louisiana in the Nov. 16 election, but incumbent Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards carried Orleans Parish by 100,000 votes and East Baton Rouge Parish by 50,000, thereby sealing a winning statewide margin of 40,000 votes. Despite a big victory in East Baton Rouge Parish, Gov. Edwards […]

Early voters are going to the polls in record numbers across the state this week as a preliminary to the Nov. 16 runoff.  A total of 162,368 voters cast ballots on Saturday, Nov. 2 and Monday, Nov. 4. This was far more than the 122,638 who voted in the first two days of early voting […]

Two statewide races will appear on the Nov. 16 election ballot. Besides governor, the other race is for Secretary of State. Republican incumbent Kyle Ardoin is facing the Democratic challenger Gwen Collins-Greenup. Ardoin led with 41 percent in the primary, followed by Collins-Greenup with 34 percent. Republican Thomas J. Kennedy followed with 19 percent. The Secretary of […]

GOP candidate Eddie Rispone is hoping for a large voter turnout in the City of Central in his quest to oust incumbent Gov. John Bel Edwards in the election on Saturday, Nov. 16. Central is one of several conservative voting areas in the state that Rispone needs to win big. Edwards is the only Democrat […]

Two races, which the Oct. 12 primary left unresolved, will appear on the ballot in Central in the election planned for Saturday, Nov. 16.  The first will fill a seat from District 6 on the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) currently held by Kathy Edmonson (R) of Ascension Parish. The other race […]

The Central City News, Capital City News, and Istrouma Journal have endorsed two additional candidates: Dr. Leah Cullins in House District 67 and Barbara Freiberg in House District 69. Editor Woody Jenkins said, “Both candidates are individuals of high integrity with much to offer.

The night of Saturday, Oct. 12 was a watershed moment for Republicans in East Baton Rouge Parish. They hold four of six parishwide offices, and a majority of the Metro Council and the parish school board, along with the city governments and school boards in Central and Zachary. But could they hold those offices through […]

On Nov. 8, 2016, Donald Trump carried Louisiana with 58 percent of the vote — a landslide by any measure. However, in East Baton Rouge Parish, the results were very different, as Hillary Clinton carried the parish by more than 18,000 votes. Political observers could see that the parish’s politics were finally catching up with […]