As some readers know, I have been researching and writing articles about a host of issues for many years. Be that as it may, the story buzzing around Shreveport officialdom about Mayor Adrian Perkins being pulled over for driving under ...
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I hope and trust that more and more of us are protecting as necessary against too much “news” consumption. Yes, there are certain things we just about have to watch for, but suffering the deluge of ways the coronavirus is ...
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The shooting / killing yesterday of a 19-year old at St. Vincent Mall certainly caught my attention … especially given that earliest media reports had so few details available. My thanks to KTBS-TV News for its update, linked below. It ...
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Only the Christmas holiday is more meaningful to me than our July 4th Independence Day. In fact, there are many dates associated with the declaration of America as an independent nation, and July 4th is a good ways down the ...
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In all the decades of my involvement in Shreveport government and politics, I have never been more surprised by anything any mayor has done. “Absence of transparency” is newly demonstrated and defined. Mayor Adrian Perkins has included himself among a ...
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I am typical of America’s “boomer” generation, born between 1946 and 1964. I was on the front-end of the group … those who saw and lived the worst, as it were, our generation experienced. I was born in 1951, a ...
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The Shreveport City Council met Tuesday as scheduled, but fear of the coronavirus once again meant that it was conducted “virtually” by way of video conferencing. (For those who do not know, watching these meetings is a blend of jury ...
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As I continue my research into an entirely different subject, I write to dispose of a nagging misunderstanding about my work, and to share a notable update from KTBS-TV News. * * * * * * * * I recently ...
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Include me among those who have made it a point in recent days to listen and watch the hateful acts and intentions of some of today’s American “protestors.” For many of us, especially Boomers, it (again) seems typical to recall ...
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In a seeming response to my article re-post yesterday about the long-delayed federal corruption trial of Caddo Parish Commissioner Lynn Cawthorne and his sister Belena Turner, KTBS-TV’s Vickie Welborn has nailed down notable details. In Ms. Welborn’s follow-up article posted ...
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I have written, and written about, these clarion ten words before … as simple, yet powerful, as any sentence I ever heard: There is never a right time to do a wrong thing. I heard the sentence the first time ...
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Jessica Moore Tullis, of the Caddo Alliance for Freedom, is reporting from the Louisiana State Senate that H.B. 697 has just been approved in Committee. Ms. Tullis reports that the bill was passed by a unanimous vote in the Senate ...
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As the Caddo Alliance for Freedom (CAF) now heads to Baton Rouge to secure the protection of its “rural” area property rights, members continue a battle another group of Caddoans faced decades ago. It is a battle I well know. ...
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The state House and Governmental Affairs committee voted 9-5 yesterday to kill House Bill 419 which would have added Louisiana to the list of states moving toward vote-by-mail. The nine legislators voting against the attempt are Republicans, and the five ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020 … 2:42 P.M. In a specially called meeting to name an interim District “A” City Council member to replace Willie Bradford, the choice of members is Tabatha H. Taylor. Ms. Taylor will serve at least until ...
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