Friday, September 14, 2018 … 11:50 A.M. Again, this red-hot spotlight is on Mayor Ollie Tyler: the rolling City Hall disaster tied to water and sewer services. The subject was notably probed in an August 6th forum for mayoral candidates ...
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Monday, September 3, 2018 … 1:20 P.M. In an article last week, I detailed some of the demographic, fund-raising and election result facts of Mayor Ollie Tyler’s 2014 election. No one I know confused that campaign with high-interest politics, but ...
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Saturday, August 25, 2018 … 9:08 P.M. For many years, the American rule of political thumb certainly included Shreveport: election campaigns kicked-off on Labor Day, and voter interest in notable ones – like mayoral campaigns – built until voting in ...
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Sunday, August 19, 2018 … 10:02 A.M. A few days ago, just after a notable development with one Shreveport mayoral candidate, a batch of emails began hitting my inboxes. The documents appear to be Shreveport Police Department records concerning one ...
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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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