A shocker in Baton Rouge as the two-term incumbent mayor is ousted by a political newcomer. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The LSU Tigers are headed to the Texas Bowl for the third time, and they’ll battle the Baylor Bears on New Year’s Eve in Houston. Jeff Palermo has more…
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A shocker in Baton Rouge as political newcomer Sid Edwards has unseated two-term incumbent mayor Sharon Weston Broome and will become the parish’s next mayor-president in January. The Republican Edwards got 54-percent of the vote, compared to 46-percent for the Democrat Broome. At his victory rally, the longtime high school football coach said voters wanted change.
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John Couvillon (COO-vee-ahn), the owner and founder of JMC Analytics and Polling, says not only can money not buy you love, but it also cannot buy the mayor-president’s seat in Baton Rouge, since Edwards was greatly outspent during the campaign.
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Couvillon says two factors in particular worked in Edwards’ favor on Saturday.
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Couvillon says another big takeaway from this election was the fact that votes for Ted James in the primary ended up being votes against Sharon Weston Broome, since most of those votes ended up going to Edwards in the runoff. The 61-year-old Edwards is the first Republican to be elected mayor-president in East Baton Rouge Parish in 24 years.
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Planning for this year’s Allstate Sugar Bowl will be a little more challenging than in years past. That’s because given the new College Football Playoff format, one of the two participating teams will not be known until less than two weeks before the game. Georgia will take on the winner of Notre Dame and Indiana, which will take place December 20th in South Bend. Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley says the planning workload is bigger this year.
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Hundley says the best part about the new format is that unlike in the BCS and the four-team College Football Playoff, the Sugar Bowl will have championship implications every year from now on.
Hundley says in years that the Sugar Bowl hosts the semifinals, the planning will be even more of a challenge, beginning with six possible participants which will not be whittled down to two until a little more than a week before gametime.
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The 2025 Sugar Bowl takes place New Years Day, with kickoff at 7:45 p.m.
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More and more people are using public libraries in the state. Last year, more than ten-million people visited public libraries – a double-digit percentage increase from 2022. State Librarian Meg Placke says library usage is almost at pre-pandemic levels.
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Placke says not only do libraries have volumes of books that can be checked out, but they have lots of programs for the entire family.
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Placke says these days, you can use the public libraries without setting foot on any of them.
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Reports of Derek Carr’s demise for the 2024 season are greatly exaggerated. After Carr left yesterday’s win over the Giants with an injury to his non-throwing hand, reports surfaced that Carr would miss the remainder of the season. However, interim head coach Darren Rizzi says that’s not true.
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Rizzi says it does not appear that Carr will need surgery on his non-throwing hand, which means he could return possibly as early as this Sunday against the Commanders.
But Rizzi says there’s something else in the mix that could jeopardize Carr’s status for Sunday.
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Since the team fired Dennis Allen after a seven-game losing streak, the Saints have won three of their last four games and sit in third place, two games behind the Buccaneers.