Thursday, May 23, 2019 … 3:06 P.M. NEW CENSUS DATA: SHREVEPORT POPULATION LOSS CONTINUES The U. S. Census Bureau today released its official Population Estimates for cities. These latest population Estimates are through July 1, 2018. Shreveport’s population officially ...
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Sunday, May 19, 2019 … 7:00 P.M. I spent time this week with another lifelong resident of Shreveport working to confirm corruption involving Adrian Perkins during his campaign last year. If the two of us, plus a corruption-hating government official ...
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Friday, May 10, 2019 … 1:40 P.M. As we saw again last Saturday, the Caddo Parish School Board and Superintendent Lamar Goree are somehow able to control what much of our traditional news media outlets might otherwise report about them. ...
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Saturday, May 4, 2019 … 10:18 P.M. Yep, the Caddo Parish School Board “win” of yet another $88 million of taxpayers money was rigged. The 58% YES / 42% NO result, with turnout of only 7.9%, was the product of ...
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Friday, May 3, 2019 … 11:18 A.M. For most of my life, this subject triggers a certain memory. My mother is holding my six- or seven-year-old hand in the auditorium of Barret Elementary School. It is standing room only for ...
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Thursday, May 2, 2019 … 3:02 P.M. The subpoena to Mayor Adrian Perkins, about which I wrote on Tuesday, relates to a violation of state campaign finance law which I had specifically reported in my January 26, 2019 article. Not ...
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Posted: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 … 11:09 A.M. … Some here who know and care are playing the waiting game on a couple of fronts. First, there’s the week-long buzz about the Louisiana State Police attempting to serve Shreveport mayor ...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019 … 7:27 P.M. At first glance, it seems like no big deal. In its regular meeting yesterday, the Shreveport City Council rejected Mayor Adrian Perkins’ request that $40,000 in Riverfront Development money be spent on his ...
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Saturday, April 20, 2019 … 2:41 P.M. It has been a very tough week for any and all who love Shreveport. As endangered as confidence in local government is, these hits from and by our new mayor seem especially damaging. ...
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Friday, April 19, 2019 … 8:46 A.M. When the Census Bureau annually reports population gain – or loss – for all counties / parishes in the nation, the four-parish Northwest Louisiana story has been the same for many years … ...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019 … 10:53 A.M. It is something too few of us know about Shreveport City Hall, to which I can personally attest: when Leanis Steward, the city’s (Internal) Auditor, sounds an alarm – any alarm – it ...
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Friday, April 12, 2019, 8:48 A.M. I have recently written about ways public school systems in Caddo and Bossier Parishes are set to score property tax revenue windfalls by way of very low May 4th voter turnout. Here are links ...
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Friday, April 5, 2019 … 10:36 A.M. On May 4th, Caddo Parish home and other property owners have yet another date with parish taxation ugliness … the kind only bosses of the Caddo Parish School Board can contrive. Put simply, ...
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Sunday, March 31, 2019 … 2:37 P.M. Multiple sources, including national publication The Bond Buyer, are reporting what may well prove to be malfeasance in the settlement of a 2014 lawsuit by the City of Shreveport against Calvin Grigsby, once ...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2019 … 11:30 A.M. As inconceivable as it may seem to any who despise high property and other taxes, the Bossier Parish School Board (BPSB) is attempting to raise city and parish taxes to a shocking level. ...
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