Sunday, June 16, 2019 … 3:31 P.M. Regardless that a considerable number of Shreveport city officials are busily denying it, our city’s water and sewer operation is awash in our money … increasingly so over the past five-plus years. In ...
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Caddo District Judge Michael Pitman has ruled in favor of Shreveport businesses overcharged for services from the City of Shreveport Water & Sewerage. The lawsuit on which Pitman ruled was filed on August 6, 2018, by attorneys Jerald “Jerry” Harper ...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 … 2:45 P.M. Trusted sources tell me the Caddo Parish Commission is set to give 48,000,000 taxpayer dollars to some highly suspect local pols and pals. They would have us believe they will then “develop” the ...
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Sunday, May 19, 2019 … 7:00 P.M. I spent time this week with another lifelong resident of Shreveport working to confirm corruption involving Adrian Perkins during his campaign last year. If the two of us, plus a corruption-hating government official ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2019 … 8:10 A.M. On January 26th, I wrote and posted an article about “notable and questionable” campaign contributions to Mayor Adrian Perkins. Then, in a follow-up article two weeks ago (SEE link below), I (again) specifically ...
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Friday, May 10, 2019 … 1:40 P.M. As we saw again last Saturday, the Caddo Parish School Board and Superintendent Lamar Goree are somehow able to control what much of our traditional news media outlets might otherwise report about them. ...
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Thursday, May 2, 2019 … 3:02 P.M. The subpoena to Mayor Adrian Perkins, about which I wrote on Tuesday, relates to a violation of state campaign finance law which I had specifically reported in my January 26, 2019 article. Not ...
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Posted: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 … 11:09 A.M. … Some here who know and care are playing the waiting game on a couple of fronts. First, there’s the week-long buzz about the Louisiana State Police attempting to serve Shreveport mayor ...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019 … 7:27 P.M. At first glance, it seems like no big deal. In its regular meeting yesterday, the Shreveport City Council rejected Mayor Adrian Perkins’ request that $40,000 in Riverfront Development money be spent on his ...
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Saturday, April 20, 2019 … 2:41 P.M. It has been a very tough week for any and all who love Shreveport. As endangered as confidence in local government is, these hits from and by our new mayor seem especially damaging. ...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019 … 10:53 A.M. It is something too few of us know about Shreveport City Hall, to which I can personally attest: when Leanis Steward, the city’s (Internal) Auditor, sounds an alarm – any alarm – it ...
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Sunday, March 31, 2019 … 2:37 P.M. Multiple sources, including national publication The Bond Buyer, are reporting what may well prove to be malfeasance in the settlement of a 2014 lawsuit by the City of Shreveport against Calvin Grigsby, once ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 … 7:50 P.M. With all the surprise of tomorrow morning’s sunrise, the Shreveport City Council tonight approved yet another tax on its ever-dwindling population of taxpayers. This time it was a $7-a-month garbage collection add-on, a ...
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Saturday, March 23, 2019 … 4:38 P.M. As things now stand, the Shreveport City Council will try again at next Tuesday’s meeting to finally approve – or not, we hope – Mayor Adrian Perkins’ garbage tax. Supposedly, the vote will ...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019 … 7:00 P.M. Here’s the good news: the cities in our Central Time Zone have the most-affordable housing in America. Here’s the bad news: housing in Shreveport-Bossier is the least-affordable in our region. So says the ...
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