“A growing hope for Shreveport’s future exists when the public is given the truth AND see accountability take action…” News came out around noontime on Friday Jan. 26th that Bridget Lee, formerly a Woodlawn High School bookkeeper, pleaded guilty to ...
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Saturday, January 20, 2018 … 2:15 P.M. As campaigns for Shreveport mayor and city council begin to take shape, let’s drill down and into why these articles are more and more strongly opposed. In fact, in Shreveport and Caddo Parish, ...
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“If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that holla is the one ya’ hit.” So the saying goes about the person that takes great exception to an insult not particularly even directly aimed at them. ...
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Real Shreveport was started as a way to provide more for our community. We have featured much of the work of Elliott Stonecipher, and now we are trying to add even more features to benefit our community. We have a ...
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Back on November 9th, Real Shreveport informed the public of the coverup effort behind the October shooting incident with SPD Chief Alan Crump (here). Sources came forward to explain how Ollie Tyler’s administration went into high gear in an effort ...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017 … 9:33 P.M. … To say “no news is good news” about the Caddo Commission puts it mildly. Be that as it may, here we are. The Commission’s latest? Drum roll please …. …. At its ...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 … 3:00 P.M. Just as more and more Americans get their heads around what fake news is, here come the fake polls. The two have a lone and dishonorable purpose: filling spaces where truth cannot go. ...
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Saturday, November 11, 2017 … 5:12 P.M. Yep, ‘tis the season. The Shreveport political one, that is. To kick it off, City Councilmen Willie Bradford and Jerry Bowman, Jr., are speechifying to politically rough-up Police Chief Alan Crump. As the ...
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11/9/17 – 3:37PM Most of Shreveport got the news this week that Shreveport Police Department Chief Alan Crump was cleared to return to work after his gun was fired in response to a response to criminal activity (KTBS article here). ...
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Sunday, November 5, 2017 … 8:36 A.M. In Caddo Parish, the nearer one gets to dealing with a body of local government, the nearer she or he is to corruption and the multi-faceted self-service and other awfulness which imbues it. ...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017 … 4:30 P.M. I have been plying my anti-corruption trade on social media since 2009, just as I had done so for years before, rarely with the same success. Over the decades of my career, I ...
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Friday, October 13, 2017 … 7:35 P.M. Stuart Lichter came to Shreveport today. Some of us locals, we now know, are not on his favorites list. For any who do not recognize the name, Lichter is the mega-rich (we are ...
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Mayor Ollie Tyler’s publicly funded D-League arena concoction has been widely unpopular among Shreveporters ever since her administration (with other key players like the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission) launched a sneak attack on taxpayers weeks ago. In that attack, taxpayers were ...
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Shreveport’s population is, by and large, upset at the prospect that leaders in our city are going forward without listening to the will of the people on the proposed arena development… not even giving people a public vote on the ...
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Ollie Tyler continues to embarrass hardworking Caddo taxpayers. Today’s press conference, designed to give the appearance that Shreveport’s rising violent crime rates are somehow under control, only proved the ineptitude of the administration. The press conference about crime featured several ...
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