September 27, 2016 I write to personally and publicly express my appreciation to Judge Maurice Hicks. Known to many as “Maury,” he is a federal judge in the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, here in Shreveport. ...
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September 25, 2016 As questions about the proposed Planet Aqua aquarium on the Shreveport riverfront mount, some about the closing of the Barnwell Center have been answered. Our R. S. Barnwell Memorial Garden & Art Center was not beyond ...
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News broke last night that University Health Hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe – which are creations of the Biomedical Research Foundation, regardless of its new logo and name change earlier this week – will proceed in the hands of some ...
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September 18, 2016 Lacking only the expected approval of the Shreveport City Council, an aquarium will take over the riverfront space from which the Barnwell Center long and well served our community. No matter how stupendous and breathtaking officials and other ...
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September 11, 2016 Anytime a politician / public official says, “It’s time for a conversation,” I instinctively roll my eyes. I mean, really … when did a pol ever want to “converse” with you, especially when their side is an opinion piece in ...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016 I won’t waste anyone’s time with explanations for why Cedric Glover does such things … our time is truly worth far, far more than that. For now, we can put out the fire he has set ...
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September 4, 2016 I recently wrote to spotlight journalism excellence in the reporting on South Louisiana floods by Gordon Russell of The Advocate newspaper, and Mark Schleifstein of the Times Picayune / NOLA.com. In their likewise excellent reporting this week, ...
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August 23, 2016 In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, I hit the road from the undamaged north to the devastated south … all along I-10 and I-12. The need for demographic information was pronounced, and given that Louisiana ...
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August 13, 2016 As our work against Caddo Parish Commission corruption broadens and deepens, one of its untold stories is ripe for telling. It is Whitney Pesnell’s story, the Shreveport attorney volunteering his services while lawyers on the other side ...
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August 6, 2016 The following definition is included in an article I recently read by Michael J. Hutter for the American Bar Association, “Prosecuting Public Officials / Figures for Corruption: The Approach in the United States“… “Public corruption is any ...
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July 31, 2016 (Previous articles I have written on this subject may be read here and here.) ************* On the hell-hot afternoon of the same day Jim Leslie was killed in Baton Rouge, July 9, 1976, an airplane arranged by his ...
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July 24, 2016 The response to my recently reposted article about Jim Leslie’s death has been very positive. That so many readers would remember so well, much less share their personal reactions to his heart-rending story, was a fine surprise. (Article ...
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June 30, 2016 (* Readers interested in my earliest articles on this subject need only follow the directions in the footnote, below.) From the first of my reports, in January 2015, about Caddo Parish Commission corruption – most notably in ...
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June 26, 2016 It isn’t every morning that I smile more or less all the way through my cereal, and I write to gladly credit The Advocate for thus kicking-off my day. In fairness, though, I stipulate that those now in charge ...
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June 19, 2016 No matter anything else, many Louisianans believed John Bel Edwards would shoot much straighter with us than did ex-Governor Bobby Jindal. It gives me no pleasure to say that he is busily proving us wrong. Our governor’s ...
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