Central City News

It has been a difficult year for Danielle Bunch of Firehouse Barbecue in Watson.  She purchased the restaurant June 1 and shortly thereafter began being harassed by Gov. John Bel Edwards, who ordered her shut down for not requiring customers to wear a mask.  However, Ms. Bunch has stood strong and refused to require masks. […]

The easy thing for the Republican Party to do this year would be to support an old-time politician as our candidate for Mayor-President.  Someone who is not very conservative but who could keep the Baton Rouge money establishment happy.  That candidate wouldn’t win, of course, but why rock the boat? This year, the Republican Party […]

The 1st Circuit Court of Appeal has ruled with Rev. Tony Spell on a misdemeanor traffic ticket that goes back 21 years. When Rev. Tony Spell was being harassed by Gov. Edwards at the start of the pandemic, law enforcement agents justified his arrest because the pastor supposedly was a “wanted man” with an outstanding […]

Darren Sibley, the assistant chief of the Central Police Department, has been arrested for alleged cyberstalking.  Back in March, it was Sibley who arrested Rev. Tony Spell for holding church services and wrestled away the pastor’s Bible. That day he held a news conference to announce the pastor’s arrest along with Central Police Chief Roger […]

Gov. John Bel Edwards responded to the petition by the Louisiana House terminating his emergency orders by saying the petition is unconstitutional.  He claimed his emergency orders are still in effect.   The governor said he was no intention of giving up any of the powers he has assumed and would veto any bill passed […]

Just before 5 p.m. last Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, 65 members of the Louisiana House of Representatives delivered to Gov. John Bel Edwards a petition terminating his emergency order on the coronavirus.  The effect was to immediately re-open the State of Louisiana and revoke the orders and mandates issued by unilateral action of the governor. […]

Bill Depew of We the People 1776 is inviting everyone to join a Rolling Rally for President Trump.   “We’ll meet at 11 a.m. this Saturday, Oct. 31 at Memorial Stadium in Baton Rouge and create a rolling parade of cars, trucks and buses — all headed to Lamar Dixon in Gonzales.  Decorate your vehicle […]

DEMCO has now completed restoration from damage incurred by Hurricane Delta. On Saturday Oct. 10, DEMCO had 41,688 meters without power, 200 broken poles, and more than 500 primary lines that were broken or on the ground.   “Restoration of this magnitude requires everyone to work together: to coordinate and communicate from moment to moment, […]

Today, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry – along with the U. S. Department of Justice and ten other state Attorneys General – filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to prevent Google from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising […]

 Nationwide, more than 50 million voters have already cast their ballots in the Presidential election coming up Tuesday, Nov. 3.  Here in Central, 11,616 voters cast ballots at the Central Library. However, many of those were not from Central. In Louisiana and especially in East Baton Rouge Parish, early voting has exploded.  High interest in the […]