As never before in my career, the deluge of meaningful messages, news articles, videos, etc., is just this side of overwhelming. Yes, I credit social media for much of this high tide of information, but – dare I say it ...
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There is no mistaking the fact. Shreveport has for a good number of years bumped along as its government struggled to keep it out of the ditch. Well, OK, a lot of ditches. Through it all, I can honestly say ...
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A few days ago a national outfit called “AdvisorSmith” (???) proclaimed via our daily online / paper that Shreveport has the second-fastest population loss among American “midsize” cities. That fact is no real newsflash here, but it was certainly and ...
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I say and cite it often, because I know it to be true: hope springs eternal. In context, a powerful example has now been set by voters and leaders in Monroe. Three weeks ago, a majority of them veritably shouted ...
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It was July 10th that I posted my first in a continuing series of articles about Mayor Adrian Perkins’ drinking and driving … and, as it turned out, much worse. To put it mildly, the Mayor’s treatment of various laws ...
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It’s a time-tested sort of event in the lives of, uh, “seniors” such as I: live and work long enough, and never-before, unthinkable, mind-twisting things happen … … Adrian Perkins has announced that he is, in fact, running for the ...
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First, I note media reports confirming that Mayor Perkins is seriously considering a campaign against sitting United States Senator Bill Cassidy. As of 7:00 last evening, the Shreveport daily paper confirms Perkins’ consideration of that move. MOST notably, should Perkins ...
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To the many of you who are new to my work, I write these personal messages from time-to-time. Given that my FB page is not a public one, these have always proved very helpful to readers. * * * * ...
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First, I welcome the many new FB Friends now with us. It is pleasing that this work now consistently goes to the 5,000 maximum number of people aboard. I will soon write a follow-up article about this page, but for ...
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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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