Saturday, February 10, 2018 … 10:33 A.M. Hopefully not counting our chickens before they hatch, Councilman James Flurry believes the Shreveport City Council will soon pass his ordinance (law) to redo City Hall’s corrupt Architectural & Engineering Committee. Such has ...
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018 … 12:43 P.M. Notes for the enjoyment – or not – of Shreveport / Caddo residents: 1. COUNCILMAN JAMES FLURRY’S A. & E. COMMITTEE ORDINANCE Since last fall, Councilman Flurry has taken point in an overhaul ...
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Saturday, January 27, 2018 … 11:22 A.M. When he spoke out last October on KTBS Television News, Shreveport City Councilman James Flurry grabbed the attention of everyone who stands against our culture of corruption. Soon – he told me “in ...
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Sunday, January 14, 2018 … 11:33 A.M. Six weeks ago, thanks to City Councilman James Flurry, it seemed a long overdue clean-up of at least a key cog in Shreveport’s corruption wheel might be in the offing. Now, instead, Mayor ...
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Sunday, January 7, 2018 … 11:20 A.M. The Shreveport Times devotes much of its news space in this morning’s print edition to the sprawling corruption in Shreveport City Hall. If the F.B.I. and other feds needed any further nudging, this ...
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Monday, January 1, 2018 … 2:50 P.M. My most particular wish for a first-rate New Year 2018 goes to my hometown. As some of us well understand, Shreveport is long overdue a good one. My wish, however, is tempered by ...
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Friday, December 22, 2017 … 9:03 A.M. Three days ago, I wrote yet another article detailing the Caddo Parish Commission habit of openly violating its own laws … specifically, our Caddo Parish Home Rule Charter. The article’s title is “CADDO ...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017 … 11:55 A.M. Subscribers to Shreveport’s local newspaper may have noticed today’s lengthy article, “Parish Moves Forward With Call for Internal Auditor.” It treats positively a thing – ignorance of the rule of law by the ...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 … 10:07 A.M. The Scott Pernici and Michael Wainwright lawsuit in Caddo District Court concerning City of Shreveport water and sewer underbilling has been dismissed. A combo of linked lawsuits in the matter has revealed and ...
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… Friday, December 8, 2017 … 11:02 A.M. … At yesterday’s regular Caddo Commission meeting, members working for the Democrat Party’s agenda successfully voted … for international “net neutrality.” In a strike against himself, the Commissioner who originally took point ...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 … 9:29 A.M. James Flurry, District “E” Shreveport City Council representative, confirms to me that he will soon act to at least overhaul a long-time cog in the wheel of City Hall corruption. As some few ...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017 … 8:57 A.M. … Thanksgiving. Again this year, it poses a question for some of us: how do I properly express real Thanks for all I have been given? The answer has long been alive within ...
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… Wednesday, November 1, 2017 … 3:18 P.M. … Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler is directing a team of taxpayer-funded attorneys, hard at work with two City Hall scandals: the Architectural & Engineering Selection Committee – “A & E Committee” – ...
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Sunday, October 29, 2017 … 11:34 A.M. When I was (finally) old enough to vote, Clyde Fant was finishing his combined twenty years as Shreveport mayor, and Calhoun Allen was soon elected to replace him. From Mayors Allen through Ollie ...
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… Tuesday, October 24, 2017 … 9:08 A.M. The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education – “BESE” – has voted 8-3 in favor of overhauling its system of annual grades for public schools. The new system will kick-in for ...
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