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News,Shreveport
MERCIFUL SHREVEPORT CITY COUNCIL NIXES NEXT MEETING
Sunday, March 22, 2020 … 2:40 P.M.
In these days of Covid-19 upheavals and worse, suffering tomorrow and Tuesday’s meetings of the Shreveport City Council seems beyond the pale.
Thank goodness the Council agrees.
It is official: both the Council’s work session tomorrow
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News,Shreveport
SHREVEPORT / CADDO: WHO IS IN CHARGE WHEN / IF NECESSARY?
Monday, March 16, 2020 … 4:300 P.M.
Last week, many if not most of us realized the coronavirus “scare” had become something worse, suddenly sucking the air out of our place, including rooms of our national, state and local government.
As is
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News,Shreveport
MAYOR PERKINS HAS DESTROYED TRUST IN CITY GOVERNMENT
Sunday, March 8, 2020 … 10:10 A.M.
I learned decades ago to keep up with national polling on the level of public trust in our government. I have long appreciated how Pew Research has tracked and compiled this measure over a
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News,Shreveport
PERKINS GIVES HIMSELF AWAY IN RACE-LACED SPEECH
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 … 3:45 P.M.
Mayor Adrian Perkins delivered his “State of Black Shreveport” speech at Southern University last Saturday. Although race-baiting may have been his plan, he instead demonstrated how little he knows and cares about us.
Any attempt
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News,Shreveport
Pt. 2: PERKINS-CALLED CITY COUNCIL MEETING FAILS
… Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 … 10:25 A.M. …
Mayor Adrian Perkins' "specially called" City Council meeting was summarily ended this morning thanks to the (planned) move of Council Chairman James Flurry, with a 2nd of the Motion by Councilman
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News,Shreveport
A PERSONAL NOTE ABOUT OUR UNHINGED MAYOR
… Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 … 8:39 A.M. …
To all who have contacted me about the special meeting Mayor Adrian Perkins has called for 10:00 this morning, I regret that my response may well be slow compared to my
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News,Shreveport
LEGAL RESEARCH: WHITEHORN “NO” IS A DONE DEAL (unless …)
Saturday, February 29, 2020 … 12:45 P.M.
Unless Shreveport City Councilmen Grayson Boucher, John Nickelson and James Flurry snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, Henry Whitehorn will certainly not be Mayor Adrian Perkins’ Chief Administrative Officer, “CAO.”
As readers all but
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News,Shreveport
WAKE UP SHREVEPORT TAXPAYERS!
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 … 9:48 A.M.
MY TAKE-AWAYS FROM YESTERDAY’S CITY COUNCIL BLOW-UP
(This article will require five minutes or less of your time. Please read.)
It is safe to assume that many Shreveporters who have steadfastly ignored what’s going on in
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News,Shreveport
CITY COUNCIL: “NO” ON WHITEHORN … PERKINS PITCHES FIT
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 … 4:58 P.M.
Minutes ago, the Shreveport City Council voted to reject Henry Whitehorn as Chief Administrative Officer … Mayor Adrian Perkins’ selection.
The 3-3 tie vote is a rejection according to city “law.” Consistent pro-Perkins Councilman James
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2018 Mayoral Race,News,Shreveport
SINCE 1966, NO LOUISIANA TESTS OF LARGE CITY MAYORAL RECALL
Friday, February 21, 2020 … 9:38 A.M.
Putting it politely, Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins routinely ignores laws which govern what any mayor can and cannot legally do.
As I write, the latest such example is his hiring of a new Chief Administrative
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