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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This time last year, Caddo Superintendent Lamar Goree was busy attempting to cover up yet another molestation scandal within his administration’s watch as Cleodis Bell Sr. was charged with molesting a mentally disabled female student from his classroom and beyond. ...
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Our local politicians and media have been completely exposed. The media now jumps into the HB 667 issue that first appeared in Elliott Stonecipher’s article (here) and exploded all over local social media faster than a cheap firecracker. It should ...
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This past Saturday, a holiday weekend, was all but quiet on local social media in the world of local politics. Elliott Stonecipher’s article about HB 667 hit with the warning about what State Rep. & likely future Mayoral Candidate Cedric ...
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The Caddo Parish Commission placed four ballot propositions in front of voters to “renew” four property tax millages anywhere between 2-5 years early. The fact that all four of those lost is one of the biggest stories in Caddo Politics ...
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The Caddo Commission lost a bid to renew four property tax millages in today’s election according to the freshly reported election results from the Louisiana Secretary of State’s website (here). The loss is an embarrassing loss for supporters of the ...
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The Shreveport Times finally announced that their archives would find a new home in our city’s public library downtown, Shreve Memorial. This marks two major ends for our local newspaper. First, it marks the end of the very real threat that ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on the perjury trial of two men whose recanted testimony in a 1993 murder case led to freedom for a man convicted in the killing. (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Two men who changed ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards laid out his reasoning to lawmakers Friday for a deficit-closing special session, saying he won’t seek tax increases to close the $304 million gap and will try to protect education programs ...
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