… Friday, June 2, 2017 … 8:57 a.m. … The details shared by witnesses are undisputed. State Representative Cedric Glover’s House Bill 667 perished yesterday, not with a bang but a whimper, as my favorite poet wrote it. When Glover ...
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*** ALERT … Thursday, June 1, 2017 … 12:00 Noon … ALERT *** The legislative bill Cedric Glover sneaked through the Louisiana House of Representatives last week died without fanfare in State Senate committee just minutes ago. The bill was ...
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SPECIAL ALERT: Saturday, May 28, 2017, 10:53 a.m. Constantly under taxation attack, and trying to withstand an unrelenting barrage of awful, corrupt governance, Shreveporters who care simply cannot absorb the damage House Bill 667 will do. Yes, I know how ...
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UPDATE: Thursday, May 25, 2017 … 3:37 P.M. On its website, the Caddo Parish Commission declares its commitment to governmental “transparency.” By clicking on that very word, one reads: “Equation for Open Government … Transparency begins by offering openness, communication, ...
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UPDATE #3 … May 23, 2017, 5:10 P.M. Early word from the Shreveport City Council meeting, still underway, is that Democrat Mayor Ollie Tyler’s property tax confection / concoction passed with the expected 5-2 Council vote. All four Democrat members ...
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UPDATE #2 … TUESDAY, May 23, 2017, 7:41 A.M. In what can only be called a major embarrassment for Mayor Ollie Tyler and Shreveport, taxers at City Hall have changed stories twice again since yesterday morning … … while throwing ...
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*** UPDATE *** … Monday, May 22, 2017, 2:00 P.M. My thanks to everyone who has responded with such loud disapproval to the property tax hike Mayor Tyler and a majority of City Council members had decided on … as ...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017 … 9:08 A.M. A fellow recently contacted me to be sure I knew how high property taxes were in Baton Rouge, where he lives. Although such was not my intention, my response made his day. He ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017 … 10:25 A.M. “Every Commissioner is not crooked, as some people think that they are.” Caddo Commissioner Lyndon B. Johnson thus shared his thinking in a media interview just after his anything-but-open-and-honest private meeting with three-wheel-car ...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017 … 12:43 P.M. As we now know, and as I reported last Friday, our Caddo Parish Commission is working on behalf of Elio Motors to shred the most basic tenets of governmental transparency. To begin, Paul ...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017 … 11:00 A.M. Since the Caddo Parish Commission was beaten in its April 29th election to raise and extend a list of its property taxes – while sitting on a $120,000,000+ mega-pile of taxpayer money – ...
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Friday, May 12, 2017 … 11:34 A.M.The Caddo Parish Commission is again flailing around in a red-hot spotlight. Now, and yet again, afire from that heat is the G.M. Plant / Elio Motors debacle. Caddo Parish taxpayers are being treated ...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2017 … 10:22 A.M.This article continues our in-depth look into the aftermath of the April 29th election defeat that hammered the Caddo Parish Commission. Five-of-five of its taxation propositions went down in flames, owing to an assortment ...
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Sunday, May 7, 2017 … 1:53 P.M.Caddo Parish Commissioners met last Thursday, their first convocation since the shocking – and, to them, very embarrassing – electoral loss the Saturday before. Commissioners, rather than accepting responsibility, continue to whine about voters ...
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Friday, May 5, 2017 … 9:00 A.M. Each person in Caddo Parish who cares what is happening to us owes it to themselves to watch pertinent parts (at least) of the video of yesterday’s Caddo Parish Commission meeting. You will ...
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