Sunday, September 17, 2017 … 12:50 P.M. … DEAR MAYOR TYLER … Some of your public comments since last Tuesday’s City Council meeting suggest to many of us that you misunderstand why we opposed your sports complex. I write you ...
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Thursday, September 14, 2017 … 1:35 P.M. What happened at Tuesday’s Shreveport City Council meeting may prove a seismic shift in local government. That so many people successfully took to social media to stop Mayor Tyler’s sports complex scheme is ...
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SPECIAL REPORT … … Tuesday, September 12, 2017 … 8:10 P.M. … Almost four-and-a-half hours after the Shreveport City Council meeting began today, members finally voted on Mayor Ollie Tyler’s “sports complex” scheme. The vote was 0-7 … no votes ...
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Friday, September 8, 2017 … 9:33 A.M. … Former United States Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire must by rights be both seething and broken-hearted. Unless Shreveport City Councilmen Oliver Jenkins and Michael Corbin have changes of heart, most Shreveporters ...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 … 4:40 P.M. New documents confirm that Mayor Ollie Tyler is aggressively – and stupefyingly – trying to buy at huge taxpayer costs chemically contaminated land for her Cross Bayou scheme. The land at issue is ...
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Sunday, September 3, 2017 … 12:27 P.M. In American history, no city has been done in by foreign invaders. Our cities must do themselves in. Each is totally free to destroy its own viability … its veritable being. Once leadership ...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 … 10:40 P.M. Another salute to KTBS Television News team – Shon Gables and Gary Hines, in this instance – for tonight’s report of the lawbreaking of Caddo Parish Commission President Steven Jackson. Jackson’s violations say ...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017 … 6:40 A.M. As my research into Mayor Ollie Tyler’s Shreveport sports complex boondoggle continues, reporter Shon Gables at KTBS Television continues her dig into the Elio Motors nightmare visited upon us by the Caddo Parish ...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017 … 4:20 P.M. Mayor Ollie Tyler’s out-of-nowhere crusade for a $150,000,000 downtown Shreveport sports complex notably ignores what happened to us the last time Shreveport ran this movie. In the seven years 2011-2017, Shreveport taxpayers have ...
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SHORT TAKES … Wednesday, August 23, 2017 … 2:55 P.M. To get to the short takes, here are the final points about yesterday’s City Council meeting: … Some on the Council, and all on the staff, seemed fearful of anything ...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 … 8:31 P.M. I doubt there were many of us who watched the 3+ hour City Council Meeting on the local access channel. I was one. If you care deeply about good government, the ...
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COMMENT … Monday, August 21, 2017 …9:55 P.M. … As Mayor Ollie Tyler’s sports arena ridiculousness rises to new definitions and levels of bad governance, I encourage everyone to remember that the City Council’s initial vote is tomorrow. Put another ...
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Sunday, August 20, 2017 … 1:20 P.M. … Even I do not believe what I now know about the outrageous plan of Mayor Ollie Tyler and our so-called “Sports Commission” to build a sports arena on Cross Bayou. Straight from ...
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Friday, August 18, 2017 … 7:33 A.M. In mere hours last evening, Shreveport residents began reacting to a KSLA-TV news story many of us find almost unbelievable. Here is the link to that report: http://www.ksla.com/clip/13606015/awkward-mayor-stops-crime-stoppers-executive-dir-from-speaking-at-news-conference Tyler and others on her ...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017 … 7:41 P.M. Not since the worst-of-the-worst days of Shreveport crime in the late 1980s have I heard as much worry about it as now. My research finds a good reason: positive crime facts and news ...
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