Central City News

Across the United States and Europe, taxi drivers have gone to great lengths to prevent free market alternatives such as Uber, LYFT, Sidecar, and Rideshare from coming to their communities.  In some places, it has been a virtual war, with taxi unions blocking streets and shutting down commerce. Last week, the revolution that is free […]

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish is sponsoring a two-hour debate this Tuesday, July 8 among the eight Republican candidates running for Congress from the Sixth District of Louisiana Nov. 4. Confirmed participants in the two-hour debate are: • Capt. Bob Bell • State Sen. Dan Claitor • Businessman Paul Dietzel II • […]

The Central City News and Capital City News swept most of the top awards during the annual Louisiana Press Association convention.  The LPA represents 110 daily and community newspapers in the state. The Central City News received the LPA’s highest award, the Freedom of Information Award, for its efforts to protect the public’s right to […]

The day before being sworn in as Mayor of the City of Central, Jr. Shelton sat at the Mayor’s desk in City Hall and talked about Central’s future. With no debt and nearly $20 million in the bank,  Central is in better financial shape than virtually any city in the state.  Unlike mayors in many cities, […]

Jr. Shelton rose from the ashes of defeat four years ago to be sworn in Tuesday as the new Mayor of the City of Central. More than 250 people gathered at the Central High auditorium at 9 a.m. Tuesday to watch District Judge Richard Anderson of Central administer the oath of office to Shelton, who […]

Apostolic Truth Academy has just completed its third year of school, with 57 students enrolled from pre-K through the 12th grade. Four students graduates in May — Chaney Spell, valedictorian; Savanna Carroll, salutatorian, Terry Fortune, Jr., and Christopher Joseph Lockett.  The administrator is Shaye Spell, and the principal is Tony Spell. For the first time, […]

The Louisiana Supreme Court let stand the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal decision that the Rouzan development was formed illegally and has been violating the servitude of homeowners Danny Hoover and Dr. Bob Welch. Hoover and Welch sued developer Tommy Spinosa and the Metro Council for allowing Spinosa to operate his development in violation of […]

The Azusa Street  Revival began in Los Angeles in 1906 and gave birth to the modern Pentecostal movement.  That movement spread east and south. In 1914, the Pentecostal movement reached Louisiana. This weekend, Life Tabernacle Church, corner Hooper and Blackwater, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Pentecostal movement in Louisiana.  Pentecostal leaders from across […]

Central City Council candidate Jason Ellis won a big victory May 3, defeating incumbent Councilman Ralph Washington by 2,066 votes to 1,477. Ellis won 58.3 percent of the votes cast. The election filled the fifth and final seat on the Central City Council.  Four others were elected to the Council in April. Ellis is a […]

The St. George incorporation movement must be happy the 2014 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature is over, because they had to spend a lot of time and effort working to defeat three bills that could have hampered or even ended the incorporation movement. As recently as last Friday, one of the anti-St. George bills […]