Wednesday, August 15, 2018 … 1:12 P.M. When candidate qualifying for Caddo Parish School Board seats closed last month, five of the twelve current members were re-elected without opposition. Depending on who one asks, that high number of unopposed members ...
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Saturday, July 21, 2018 … 11:48 A.M. The first phase in official candidate qualifying for Shreveport mayor ended yesterday. Now we wait through next week to see if any legal challenges are filed. Ten candidates paid their fees, then filled-in ...
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Saturday, June 30, 2018 … 12:52 P.M. In the past few months, I have written several articles about the Shreveport mayor’s race, and the intended candidacy of political neophyte Adrian Perkins. The articles have focused on Perkins’ ties to Louisiana ...
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Sunday, June 24, 2018 … 7:10 A.M. In a recent article, I explained that the Shreveport mayoral contest did not yet include a presumed representative from one side of the political street in the city’s black community, either ex-mayor Cedric ...
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Saturday, June 16, 2018 … 10:01 P.M. I learned long ago that over-the-top displays of raw political power by any public official always signal something worse. Such an ugly, wide-open display continues at our Shreveport / Caddo Parish Metropolitan Planning ...
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Friday, June 1, 2018 … 9:36 P.M. A STUNNING STORY OF CADDO PARISH TAXPAYER DISRESPECT Almost three years ago, in late August 2015, I went public with a detailed article proving how Caddo Parish Fire District 5 had, with cold ...
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Sunday, May 6, 2018 … 9:40 A.M. Our Shreveport daily newspaper recently found what many others have long known: minimizing, much less denying, the pervasiveness of public corruption here is risky business. As Shreveport’s recent tax election was only days ...
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Sunday, April 8, 2018 …12:35 P.M. Each year, over $1 billion flows from taxpayers to the City of Shreveport, the Caddo Parish School Board and the Caddo Parish Commission. In 2010, on my own time and dime, I began studying ...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018 … 10:54 P.M. There is more news tonight – just four days after my most recent article on this subject – about the supposed / imagined / dreaded Cross Bayou development just north of downtown Shreveport. ...
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Saturday, March 24, 2018 … 12:51 P.M. Who do honest Shreveport citizens see when city officials knowingly break our laws? Unless and until taxpayers determine and act on that, the April 28th election should not be held. The Shreveport City ...
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Monday, March 12, 2018 …2:51 P.M. Given its exceptionally strong hold on Shreveport and Caddo Parish, few honest folks are surprised by new examples of public corruption. Surprised or not, though, it is sickening to watch it take shape directly ...
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Thursday, March 1, 2018 … 10:14 A.M. When newly-appointed Caddo Parish School Board member Durwood Hendricks, Jr., took his oath of office at Tuesday’s meeting, he seems to have done so contrary to specifically applicable Louisiana law. Louisiana law – ...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018 … 12:15 P.M. I devoutly believe it is a rule by which people must live: we should never – ever – vote to tax ourselves unless and until our government is honest, with demonstrated respect for ...
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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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