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News,Shreveport
SHREVEPORT MAYOR PERKINS ADDS BOND ISSUE INSULT TO INJURY
Posted: Friday, August 16, 2019 … 9:45 AM
For Shreveporters who still believe Tuesday’s City Council approval of the $186,000,000 bond issue was not corruptly rigged well in advance, consider a “community meeting” held last night at Bill Cockrell Park in
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MORE OF THE STORY: COUNCILMAN FLURRY’S BOND ISSUE VOTE
Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 … 11:16 A.M.
The critically important back-story on yesterday’s Shreveport City Council meeting concerns the vote of Councilman James Flurry in favor of Mayor Adrian Perkins’ $186,000,000 bond issue.
The Councilman’s vote gave Perkins precisely what he
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CITY COUNCIL DOES AS ORDERED, ARRANGED, RIGGED, ETC., ETC.
It was a lot like waiting for water to boil. You know what’s going to happen, and that it will take longer than you want to spend waiting on it …
… The Shreveport City Council voted late this afternoon to
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WILL PERKINS JAM THIS $220,000,000 BOND ISSUE THROUGH? HOW?
Sunday, August 11, 2019 … 2:30 P.M.
The Shreveport City Council will meet tomorrow and Tuesday to approve, or not, sending Mayor Adrian Perkins’ stupefying $220,000,000 bond issue to a November election ballot.
Aside from the fact that Perkins (and staff) are
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News,Shreveport
ONE WEEK OUT: SHREVEPORT BOND ISSUE MESS GETTING MESSIER?
Posted: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 … 11:12 A.M. …
ONE WEEK OUT: SHREVEPORT BOND ISSUE MESS GETTING MESSIER?
Neophyte Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins is certainly finding out that his military bearing is anything but appreciated by most City Council members.
Somehow, “Salute me
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CONFIRMED: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE A “NO” ON THIS BOND ISSUE
Given its routine position of sponsoring property and many other taxes in Shreveport, confirmation that the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce has not automatically green-lighted Mayor Adrian Perkin’s unthinkable property tax whopper is a big deal.
Days of buzz formally ended with
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SHREVEPORT BOND ISSUE: UNTHINKABLY WRONG
In only two weeks, Shreveport City Council members must vote to approve, or not, Mayor Adrian Perkins’ mind-blowing $220,000,000 bond issue. Doing so is, of course, the political equivalent of walking the plank for our stunningly ill-prepared chief executive.
The very,
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YET ANOTHER WARNING OF CITY HALL FINANCIAL DANGERS
Finally. I had just about decided we who care were hopelessly outnumbered.
I don’t know if it matters more to me that KTBS News aired the subject report, or that it turned to local accounting firm Heard, McElroy & Vestal for
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AS TOXIC CITY HALL BOND ISSUE BEARS DOWN, WE REMEMBER …
On August 13st, the Shreveport City Council is scheduled to approve (or not) the $220,000,000 bond issue our mayor and invisible “leaders” want to see passed in a November election.
Rigging by Mayor Perkins includes arranging for the public vote to
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A PERSONAL MESSAGE ABOUT THIS (MY) WORK
As some readers know, I’ve been criticized here recently for “preaching to the choir” … not doing anything about local corruption.
Although inaccurate, I completely understand the frustration.
In fact, I can certainly attest, there are real reasons, far beyond mere politics,
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