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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Friday, June 1, 2018 … 9:36 P.M. A STUNNING STORY OF CADDO PARISH TAXPAYER DISRESPECT Almost three years ago, in late August 2015, I went public with a detailed article proving how Caddo Parish Fire District 5 had, with cold ...
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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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Friday, May 18, 2018 … 8:44 A.M. My thanks to KSLA-TV News and reporter Stacey Cameron for more digging into the relationship between now-indicted Caddo Parish Commissioner Lynn Cawthorne and local government … both the City of Shreveport and Caddo ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018 … 8:39 A.M. A week from today, the Shreveport City Council is expected to vote, in some way or another, on the matter of a “non-binding” Memorandum of Understanding – a “MOU” – for a $1 ...
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Sunday, May 6, 2018 … 9:40 A.M. Our Shreveport daily newspaper recently found what many others have long known: minimizing, much less denying, the pervasiveness of public corruption here is risky business. As Shreveport’s recent tax election was only days ...
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This past Thursday, April 26th, citizens of Shreveport got the experience it was finally due… a corrupt public official in the crosshairs of law enforcement. Public corruption was in full view as federal prosecutors indicted Caddo Commissioner Lynn Cawthorne for ...
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 … 9:18 A.M. As promised, here are requested questions and answers about Mayor Ollie Tyler’s bad faith tax hike package up for a vote next Saturday. 1. Why did Tyler deliberately allow five-of-six of these property ...
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Sunday, April 15, 2018 … 9:43 A.M. As some readers are aware, a cabal of local corruption boosters accuse me of “never offering solutions” for Shreveport’s problems. It is an old and worn charge from “leaders” who have for decades ...
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Sunday, April 8, 2018 …12:35 P.M. Each year, over $1 billion flows from taxpayers to the City of Shreveport, the Caddo Parish School Board and the Caddo Parish Commission. In 2010, on my own time and dime, I began studying ...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018 … 10:54 P.M. There is more news tonight – just four days after my most recent article on this subject – about the supposed / imagined / dreaded Cross Bayou development just north of downtown Shreveport. ...
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Saturday, March 31, 2018 … 2:28 P.M. Unbelievably so, sources inside Shreveport City Hall say the partners in the Cross Bayou Point development are already lining up City Council votes for a key approval of their $1 billion scheme. (Other ...
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Saturday, March 24, 2018 … 12:51 P.M. Who do honest Shreveport citizens see when city officials knowingly break our laws? Unless and until taxpayers determine and act on that, the April 28th election should not be held. The Shreveport City ...
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Saturday, March 17, 2018 … 2:10 P.M. Lest any reader wonder, NO … I am in no way surprised that Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler has confected another taxpayer abuse. Surprised or not, I am far beyond sick and tired of ...
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