NOTE: Analyzing/comparing all changes to Ascension’s Home Rule Charter proposed by A Better Ascension (ABA) requires multiple meetings of the Home Rule Charter Revision Committee. Likewise, examining those changes cannot be accomplished in a single piece. We endeavor to compare the current charter with ABA’s beginning with this offering. For comparison’s sake ABA’s proposal will appear in […]
President Kenny Matassa bribes Gonzales Council candidate
NOTE: Due to nature of recording, we were unable to download individual clips in format adaptable for use in some mobile devices. At bottom of page we’ve provided four YouTube links where an hour or so of audio can be accessed. Wayne Lawson is not for sale…no matter what Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa and […]
President “Go-to-guy” plays hardball
It is sort of sad when any 60-something year old man begins dyeing his hair and wearing lifts in his shoes like Parish President Kenny Matassa started doing this year? The initial, instinctual human reaction is sympathy, and the urge to root for a guy so obviously burdened by feelings of inadequacy, heightened by his […]
Candidate for Parish President responds to Tommy Martinez, thanking him for service
EDITOR’s NOTE: Long claiming that he would endorse no candidate to succeed him, Parish President Tommy Martinez accused an unnamed “candidate” of “numerous falsehoods, half truths and outright lies” in a local weekly newspaper advertisement hitting the streets on Thursday. Martinez has consistently said that, when asked, “I will tell people I’m voting for Kenny […]


