Central City News

It’s just a mask. It’s just for two weeks. It’s just to flatten the curve. It’s just for non-essential businesses. It’s just to keep from overwhelming the hospitals. It’s just until cases go down more. It’s just to keep others from being scared. It’s just for a few more weeks. It’s just communion or singing. […]

I could go into all the arguments about why it’s bad for healthy people to go around wearing masks, especially in the heat of a broiling Louisiana summer.  • Or I could go through all the conflicting edicts by the CDC, the WHO, and various health “experts” on why masks work or don’t work.  •Or […]

Nothing of man is perfect, but the United States of America is the greatest nation in human history!  I love this country with all my heart!  I honor our flag as the symbol of human liberty all around the world.  I marvel at our Constitution and the unique system of government it has created.  I […]

Editor’s Note: Many Christians today say Romans 13:1-4 proclaims that all government is put in place by God and that governmental leaders are God’s emissaries who must be obeyed. Here in Central, Rev. Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church has continued to hold church services despite an emergency order by Gov. John Bel Edwards banning […]

On Tuesday, March 31, 2020, when Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran walked into the sanctuary of Life Tabernacle Church on Hooper Road in the City of Central, he walked into the history books.   Since the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, 400 years ago, Christians have been able to freely assemble in the sanctuaries of their […]

On October 13, I visited a bookstore in my hometown and a grocery store in my neighborhood. This is what I found on one day…  The well-known bookstore has a magazine section of more than 300 publications.  My grocery store’s magazine rack contains about 100 different publications.  I had hoped to find a magazine about […]

A stroll through the Capitol on Inauguration Day this past Monday brought back memories, some from long ago. The State Capitol has been something of a second home for me for the past 56 years. Not only the 28 years I represented Baton Rouge in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 2000 but […]

On October 12, 2019, the people of the proposed City of St. George voted to incorporate by an overwhelming margin, thereby authorizing the creation of Louisiana’s fifth largest municipality with 86,000 residents. Nevertheless, after the election, East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome filed suit to stop the incorporation.  She was joined in that […]

Perhaps attorney Mary Olive Pierson is stronger on rhetoric than on law. In any case, she has allowed Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome to place herself in an untenable and rather embarrassing position. Ms. Pierson has allowed her client to file a highly-publicized suit to block the incorporation of the City of St. George, which was […]

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has endorsed Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone for Governor in the Oct. 12 primary.  The move was a surprise because the state GOP endorsed both Rispone and Congressman Ralph Abraham (R-Ado), the two major Republican candidates running to replace Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards. Parish Republican chairman […]