Posted: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 … 2:13 P.M. … USUAL SUSPECTS PUSH TO PASS SHREVEPORT BOND ISSUE Yes, this article is again and still about Shreveport taxes and corruption. And, yes, for any who may wonder, I am as tired ...
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… Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 … 12:50 P.M. … GOVERNOR’S RACE NEWS BEARS DOWN ON OUR BOND ISSUE VOTE In three weeks plus a couple of days, Shreveporters who care will cast two critical votes: Louisiana governor and our ...
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… Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 … 10:20 A.M. … MORE ON CITY’S OVERBILLING WATER-SEWER, PERKINS PUSH-BACK As I shared in a post the day-before-yesterday, Caddo District Judge Michael Pitman has ruled that, yes, the city’s Water & Sewerage Department ...
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… Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 … 9:46 A.M. … INDICTED CADDO COMMISSIONER CAWTHORNE RE-ELECTED In Saturday’s election, a 54% majority of registered voters in Caddo Parish Commission District 6 re-elected Lynn Cawthorne to that scandal-infested body. Cawthorne and his ...
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… Posted: Monday, October 14, 2019 … 1:38 P.M. COURT RULES AGAINST CITY IN WATER-SEWER OVERBILLING SUIT In a news release today from their Shreveport office, attorneys Anne Wilkes and Jerry Harper confirmed this morning’s court decision in the class ...
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… Posted: Friday, October 11, 2019 … 1:33 P.M. AS PERKINS’ BOND VOTE NEARS, UP JUMPS A POLITICAL DEVIL Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins is being forced to act on a matter he had no plans to touch mere weeks before ...
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… Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 … 12:07 P.M. … BUCKLE-UP: HERE’S HOW SCARY THE SHREVEPORT AUDIT TRULY IS For any who may not know, the (Downtown) Rotary Club of Shreveport has proclaimed and projected the voice of our city’s ...
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Monday, September 30, 2019 … 8:05 A.M. We can expect more to be reported in coming days about the long-awaited release early this morning of the 2018 City of Shreveport Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). As I have previously explained, ...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 … 10:00 A.M. If current police department acting boss Ben Raymond is not confirmed by the City Council in this afternoon’s meeting, it will be a lightning strike blow-up. If that lightning strikes, the new chief ...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019 … 2:50 P.M. Regardless excuses and dodges and rigging, Mayor Adrian Perkins should not have left town days before he and the City Council struggle with naming a new Police Chief. Sadly, among the many I ...
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Posted: Friday, September 20, 2019 … 1:15 P.M. … CITY HALL NOW BURIED IN ANOTHER FAST-DEVELOPING SCANDAL Most Shreveporters who care even a bit about the spiral-down in City government are closely following the off-the-rails selection of our Police Chief. ...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019 … 8:00 P.M. After spending the better part of the day on the phone and juggling emails, it is clear that Mayor Adrian Perkins has lost control of his own process to select a new Police ...
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Posted: Friday, September 13, 2019 … 12:29 P.M. … MORE ON SHREVEPORT’S SPIRALING-DOWN FINANCES Why Mayor Adrian Perkins and four-of-seven City Council members are in such a destructive rush to pass their $186,000,000 bond issue is increasingly clear … … ...
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Saturday, September 7, 2019 … 2:41 P.M. No matter anything else about her mayoralty, a low point for Ollie Tyler was her loud campaign lie last year about a City Hall audit into the long and possibly illegal overcharging of ...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2019 … 11:11 A.M. A few weeks ago, when the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce was accidentally outed as opposed to Mayor Adrian Perkins’ original $220,000,000 bond issue, the group specifically noted that there remain untouched such bond ...
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