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The Baton Rouge Democrat Attempt At A Metro Council Power Play Appears To Be...
…for now. Yesterday’s announcement that four of the five Democrats on that body – Chauna Banks, Lamont Cole, Erika Green and Donna Collins-Lewis – would be abstaining from a vote on a replacement for...
View ArticleIf You Vote To Give Sharon Weston Broome Any More Tax Money, You’re A Sucker
Saturday in Baton Rouge there are a couple of tax hikes on the ballot, which would raise sales taxes by a half cent to a staggering 9.95 cents inside East Baton Rouge Parish, and also to add 1.5 mills...
View ArticleExxonMobil Isn’t Taking Together Louisiana’s Economic Hate Campaign Lying Down…
…and that’s not especially good news for Baton Rouge’s future prospects as an economically viable city. Yesterday ExxonMobil announced in a statement they were pulling their applications for tax...
View ArticleWhat The Hell Happened At The Baton Rouge Metro Council Yesterday?
A meeting of the Baton Rouge Metro Council which was supposed to result in an order allowing the reopening of the bars in East Baton Rouge Parish fell apart yesterday, as a quorum was lost in the...
View ArticleLooks Like The BR Mayor’s Race Is A Battle For 2nd Place…
…at least where the primary stage of the race is concerned. The Baton Rouge mayoral primary is shaping up to be a three-person race, with Democratic incumbent Sharon Weston Broome far out in front and...
View ArticleHere’s What Happened Last Night In Louisiana’s Elections
Obviously, if you were like most people you paid an awful lot of attention to the drama involving the presidential race and probably not as much to the other elections taking place. If you’re in...
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VIDEO: The Totally Savage And Highly Justified Ad Clobbering Sharon Weston...
It’s no secret that Sharon Weston Broome has been an ABSOLUTE FAILURE as Mayor of Baton Rouge. That can’t really be denied at this point, can it? She’s presided over a city with unprecedented rises in...
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If Baton Rouge Is To Have A Future At All, Steve Carter Has To Win On Dec. 5
We don’t do a whole lot of endorsements here at The Hayride, though we’ve certainly departed from that in the past week or so by endorsing Luke Letlow for the 5th District congressional seat and...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts About Saturday’s Louisiana Runoff Elections
We would have done this over the weekend, as in late Saturday night, but your author was deep into a novel-writing binge (my third book, Retribution, will be out early next year and I’m hustling to...
View ArticleThe Destruction Of Baton Rouge By Its Politicians Has Begun
Yesterday, before the Baton Rouge Metro Council unanimously rejected reason and effectively imposed a higher property tax rate on home-grown and locally-owned small businesses than it did the richest...
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Put Out The Koy Moore Video, For Crying Out Loud
We didn’t cover this when it happened, largely because at the time we were so disgusted with LSU’s complete capitulation as an institution to the falsities and stupidity of the Black Lives Matter...
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