October 30, 2016 Believe it: only ten days before Christmas, Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler, along with City Council boss Willie Bradford, plan to nix the Joys of the Season with a really mucky (and murky) tax hike. It is wrong in ...
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Many hours of reading and reaching-out to some of the smartest people on the subject leaves us a simple and direct question. All else aside, and now knowing what America has learned over the past 48 hours, how can Obamacare ...
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For any who do not know, the war continues to rage between the Office of the Governor of Louisiana and John George and his BRF (Biomedical Research Foundation) in Shreveport. The long fought-over new “agreement” between the two, just ...
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In a key hearing in Caddo Parish District Court, Judge Ramone Lafitte has issued important rulings in the lawsuit local attorney Whitney Pesnell and I filed in March 2015 (pro bono). The purpose of our suit was and remains the ...
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Saturday, October 15, 2016 ….. 8:25 AM ….. I received from Michael Wainwright last night, by email, a copy of the lawsuit he and business partner Scott Pernici filed yesterday against the City of Shreveport. The subject is, of course, ...
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Friday, October 14, 2016 … 8:30 AM Not since I first reported the CPERS self-pay malfeasance at the Caddo Parish Commission has any mess-up in local government blown-up like this one down at Shreveport City Hall. Michael Wainwright has written ...
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 … 8:32 AM Even I find it difficult to believe what the Shreveport Times reported this morning. In all my years here, this incompetence and bizarro messing-up and messing-around just didn’t happen. As best we can ...
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Below is the link to the Public Affairs Research Council (PAR) Guide on 2016 Louisiana Constitutional Amendments. PAR has been the go-to source for this information for decades, regardless of how you ultimately decide to vote on the Amendments: PAR ...
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WE MAY HOPE C.P.S.B. BOSSES ARE LIKEWISE INSTRUCTED ….. Friday, October 7, 2016 …. 8:28 AM …. Deep in the bowels of government abuses of every sort are costly and punishing wars to force public officials to produce our – ...
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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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