Patrick Sloan-Turner
Education Reporter at Victoria Advocate
Baton Rouge city politics reporter @TheAdvocateBR. Tripawd dad. FOIA. Tips: [email protected] Apologies for the MSU/Detroit sports tweets.
Articles
-
6 days ago |
theadvocate.com | Patrick Sloan-Turner
Facing an expected deficit, East Baton Rouge Parish's mayor-president is asking all city-parish departments to submit plans to cut their budgets for 2026 - but the depth of those cuts could depend on whether voters approve his tax plan in November. On May 19, Mayor-President Sid Edwards' staff sent memos to all departments asking them to submit budgets reduced by 6% and 12% for review.
-
1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Patrick Sloan-Turner
Baton Rouge NBA Youngboy — who Wednesday said he'd just received a federal pardon from Donald Trump — has shared a high-profile attorney with the president. Drew Findling, a Georgia-based attorney, was hired by Kentrell Gaulden, who goes by NBA Youngboy, for a federal case against brought against him in Utah last year.
-
1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Patrick Sloan-Turner
At least $30,000 worth of items, including a $13,000 copier, a treadmill, 10 Dell computers and dozens of other pieces of equipment, went missing from a Baton Rouge community center, raising questions about the center's previous management, a recent audit found. The report — published May 8 by the city-parish finance department at the request of Metro Council member Anthony Kenney, whose district includes the center — revealed numerous items missing from the Jewel J.
-
2 weeks ago |
theadvocate.com | Patrick Sloan-Turner
Long-standing plans to build a new $400 million arena on the LSU campus took a step forward Thursday, with the creation of a new subdistrict that would collect a 1-cent tax on sales at the facility. LSU Foundation President and CEO Robert M. Stuart Jr. and LSU Economic Development District legal counsel Charles Landry are still mum on the developer chosen, but the new "athletic" subdistrict allows for a tax to be collected at the arena.
-
2 weeks ago |
theadvocate.com | Patrick Sloan-Turner
On Wednesday afternoon, Melvin Lee “Kip” Holden returned to City Hall in the heart of Baton Rouge — one final time. This time not to lead, but to be remembered. The former parish mayor-president, who guided Louisiana’s capital city for 12 years between 2005 and 2016, died last week at the age of 72.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 531
- Tweets
- 1K
- DMs Open
- Yes
LSU’s EDD created a subdistrict yesterday to collect a 1-cent sales tax at the new arena. Though a finalized deal has yet to be inked with the developer who the foundation has been mum on for over a year now. https://t.co/pbCRSXWrdc
"He fought for what he believed was right. He ran his race with endurance, and he kept the faith in God," said Holden’s successor, Sharon Weston Broome. "Rest well, Kip. Your race is finished, your service complete and your reward eternal." https://t.co/DPb9mDErY2
RT @samstein: Kristi Noem is hooking up her employees to polygraph machines to try and find out if they're leaking to the press, per the WS…
