Tuesday, August 29, 2017 … 6:40 A.M. As my research into Mayor Ollie Tyler’s Shreveport sports complex boondoggle continues, reporter Shon Gables at KTBS Television continues her dig into the Elio Motors nightmare visited upon us by the Caddo Parish ...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017 … 4:20 P.M. Mayor Ollie Tyler’s out-of-nowhere crusade for a $150,000,000 downtown Shreveport sports complex notably ignores what happened to us the last time Shreveport ran this movie. In the seven years 2011-2017, Shreveport taxpayers have ...
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SHORT TAKES … Wednesday, August 23, 2017 … 2:55 P.M. To get to the short takes, here are the final points about yesterday’s City Council meeting: … Some on the Council, and all on the staff, seemed fearful of anything ...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 … 8:31 P.M. I doubt there were many of us who watched the 3+ hour City Council Meeting on the local access channel. I was one. If you care deeply about good government, the ...
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COMMENT … Monday, August 21, 2017 …9:55 P.M. … As Mayor Ollie Tyler’s sports arena ridiculousness rises to new definitions and levels of bad governance, I encourage everyone to remember that the City Council’s initial vote is tomorrow. Put another ...
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Sunday, August 20, 2017 … 1:20 P.M. … Even I do not believe what I now know about the outrageous plan of Mayor Ollie Tyler and our so-called “Sports Commission” to build a sports arena on Cross Bayou. Straight from ...
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Friday, August 18, 2017 … 7:33 A.M. In mere hours last evening, Shreveport residents began reacting to a KSLA-TV news story many of us find almost unbelievable. Here is the link to that report: http://www.ksla.com/clip/13606015/awkward-mayor-stops-crime-stoppers-executive-dir-from-speaking-at-news-conference Tyler and others on her ...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017 … 7:41 P.M. Not since the worst-of-the-worst days of Shreveport crime in the late 1980s have I heard as much worry about it as now. My research finds a good reason: positive crime facts and news ...
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Sunday … August 6, 2017 … 10:32 A.M. … I hereby set aside my research into our local crime statistics to react to an editorial in today’s Shreveport Times, one which opens the door to a broader and increasingly important ...
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Monday, July 31, 2017 … 7:35 A.M. I thank all who have contacted me about the shooting of Juan Zuniga at El Compadre Restaurant on East Kings Highway in Shreveport, just before midnight Saturday night. This morning’s updates provide new ...
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Sunday, July 30, 2017 … 11:40 A.M. (I sincerely thank the members of our Metropolitan Planning Commission – “MPC” – and Shreveport City Council who have assisted me.) Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler is said to be well along in her ...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 … 10:35 A.M. I encourage all Shreveporters to take the time to read or watch two KTBS Television News stories – by reporters Shon Gables and Melody Brumble – about a new proposal to privatize the ...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017 … 11:59 A.M. This morning, after a discussion in a legally required public hearing, Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator announced he would not raise parish property taxes … at least for now. The possible hike which ...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017 … 12:10 P.M. Yesterday, from KTBS Television News reporter T. W. Starr, we learned how Caddo Parish Tax Assessor Charles Henington, Jr., has recovered $1 million and counting by finding property owners who claim undue homestead ...
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Sunday, July 16, 2017 … 2:17 P.M. As Shreveport and Caddo Parish citizens now stand a sort of Elio Motors death watch, more and more attention is focused on the deal’s original doers, notably including public officials. Given that the ...
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