Education Baton Rouge leaders highlight efforts to improve child literacy BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Jun 22, 2022 In a bid to dramatically boost lackluster literacy levels, a task force on Tuesday released a “literacy blueprint” that aims to turn Baton Rou…
News New chief of staff for Baton Rouge mayor had been in similar administrative role at NOPD BY TERRY L. JONES | Staff writer Jun 21, 2022 Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome has tapped a former administrative head within the New Orleans Police Department to serve as her new chie…
+3 News Baton Rouge to receive $1 million in federal funds for mental health centers By PAUL COBLER | Staff writer Jun 19, 2022 A network of mental and behavioral health centers to be established with the help of $1 million in federal funds will offer clinical services …
News Baton Rouge mayor drafting retention pay for cops now that state OKs New Orleans plan BY TERRY L. JONES | Staff writer Jun 8, 2022 A recent opinion from the state Attorney General's Office has given Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome the green light to devise an incentiv…
+13 Photos Photos: Mayor-President's Blight Tour Jun 1, 2018 Mayor Sharon Weston Broome and others involved in fighting blight took a City Hall sponsored "blight tour" Thursday May 31, 2018, in Baton Rou…
News Here's why St. George's potential effect to Baton Rouge's budget is bigger than last time BY ANDREA GALLO | agallo@theadvocate.com Mar 6, 2018 St. George organizers have increased the potential hit a new city would make on the East Baton Rouge city-parish budget, even though the propo…
News Broome taps health care, domestic violence, education, other experts for Women's Commission BY ANDREA GALLO | agallo@theadvocate.com Jan 12, 2018 Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome has created a Women's Advancement Commission. The first elected female mayor-president of East Baton Roug…
+3 News As Metro Council reviews 2018 budget proposal, city leaders explain goals to 'work smarter' BY ANDREA GALLO | agallo@theadvocate.com Nov 14, 2017 Metro Council members have begun poring over Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome's proposed 2018 budget for $918 million to run City Hall thr…
News Mayor Broome has seen body camera footage, says it will 'add value' to conversation about BRPD fatal shooting BY ANDREA GALLO | agallo@theadvocate.com Nov 14, 2017 Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome said Tuesday afternoon that she has viewed the body camera footage in a Baton Rouge Police Department off…
+2 News Together Baton Rouge rallies for City Hall to spend money attracting grocery stores BY ANDREA GALLO | agallo@theadvocate.com Nov 13, 2017 A group of 75 people rallied Monday outside of East Baton Rouge Parish City Hall to push for funding in the 2018 budget that would offer incen…