Wednesday, August 8, 2018 … 1:14 P.M. For Shreveporters who really and truly care about our city, Monday night’s mayoral forum via the Southern Hills Business Association was very difficult to watch and hear. (My thanks to KSLA-TV News for ...
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Thursday, August 2, 2018 … 4:40 P.M. Pt. 4: QUALIFYING WRAP: LYNCH … JACKSON … YOUNG COUNCILWOMAN S. LYNCH BEATS CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS When City of Shreveport elections were last held in 2014, then-Caddo Parish Commissioner Stephanie Lynch decided to ...
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Thursday, July 26, 2018 … 6:19 P.M. In Shreveport’s not-too-distant past, a notably high voting frequency was all but required of any who sought top public offices … like mayor. These days, as this series of articles highlights, all such ...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018 … 8:12 P.M. Last Saturday, in my first article in this series, I mentioned a factoid from Caddo Commissioner Steven Jackson’s qualifying papers, called a “Notice of Candidacy.” There is much more news on that subject ...
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July 13, 2018 … 1:03 P.M. I write only infrequently about national politics. There is so much money to be made in that business that it has drawn thousands more talkers and writers than America needs. Regardless, I spend hours ...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 … 11:29 A.M. With official qualifying – July 18-20 – a mere week away, here are notes of interest … … ROD DEMERY The long-time investigator with the Shreveport Police Department and Caddo Parish District Attorney ...
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Local government is choking at having to do the right thing by the citizens. All the way back in August 2015, Elliott Stonecipher set out to help hold the local Caddo Parish government accountable by exposing an illegal collection of ...
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Sunday, June 10, 2018 … 10:09 A.M. With just under six weeks to go before official qualifying for Shreveport mayor – July 18, 19, and 20 – top candidates who have publicly announced their campaigns are Democrats Adrian Perkins and ...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 … 8:53 A.M. My thanks to all who contacted me after my most recent article which detailed Shreveport’s continuing population loss. Many of you asked for more information about Shreveport’s population and demographics compared to Louisiana ...
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Thursday, May 24, 2018 … 11:00 A.M. Just-released U. S. Census Bureau data from its official Population Estimates program shows continuing population loss for Shreveport … now down to 192,036 … through July 1, 2017. The city’s population has dropped ...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018 … 7:49 P.M. Last September 12th, the Shreveport City Council voted unanimously to shut-down the secretly designed plan of Mayor Ollie Tyler to “develop” the Cross Bayou area north of downtown. Before taxpayers could take a ...
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Friday, May 18, 2018 … 8:44 A.M. My thanks to KSLA-TV News and reporter Stacey Cameron for more digging into the relationship between now-indicted Caddo Parish Commissioner Lynn Cawthorne and local government … both the City of Shreveport and Caddo ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018 … 8:39 A.M. A week from today, the Shreveport City Council is expected to vote, in some way or another, on the matter of a “non-binding” Memorandum of Understanding – a “MOU” – for a $1 ...
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This past Thursday, April 26th, citizens of Shreveport got the experience it was finally due… a corrupt public official in the crosshairs of law enforcement. Public corruption was in full view as federal prosecutors indicted Caddo Commissioner Lynn Cawthorne for ...
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Saturday, April 28, 2018 … 9:54 P.M. No one who has lived in Shreveport very long needs to be told that property taxes – mainly who gets to vote them on whom – are not fair. The rest of the ...
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