Monday, March 12, 2018 …2:51 P.M. Given its exceptionally strong hold on Shreveport and Caddo Parish, few honest folks are surprised by new examples of public corruption. Surprised or not, though, it is sickening to watch it take shape directly ...
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Thursday, March 1, 2018 … 10:14 A.M. When newly-appointed Caddo Parish School Board member Durwood Hendricks, Jr., took his oath of office at Tuesday’s meeting, he seems to have done so contrary to specifically applicable Louisiana law. Louisiana law – ...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018 … 2:39 P.M. To Governor John Bel Edwards and his legislator buds and other enablers, the latest Census Bureau data are the equivalent of a five-alarm fire. Rather than respond, they feign deafness. Perhaps these “leaders” ...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018 … 5:02 P.M. I plead guilty. I am no fan of former U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder. And now he wants to run for President. To me, Holder’s red-hot political activism for America’s hard political ...
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Saturday, February 17, 2018 … 7:57 A.M. In a White House announcement late yesterday, President Donald J. Trump nominated Lafayette attorney David C. Joseph to be the U. S. Attorney for our forty-two parish U. S. Western District of Louisiana. ...
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Saturday, February 10, 2018 … 10:33 A.M. Hopefully not counting our chickens before they hatch, Councilman James Flurry believes the Shreveport City Council will soon pass his ordinance (law) to redo City Hall’s corrupt Architectural & Engineering Committee. Such has ...
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Saturday, February 3, 2018 … 11:43 A.M. For perhaps a significant number of Shreveport residents, our just-beginning campaign for mayor may well determine if they stay or join our city’s years-long exodus. In my experience, confidence in local government is ...
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Saturday, January 27, 2018 … 11:22 A.M. When he spoke out last October on KTBS Television News, Shreveport City Councilman James Flurry grabbed the attention of everyone who stands against our culture of corruption. Soon – he told me “in ...
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Saturday, January 20, 2018 … 2:15 P.M. As campaigns for Shreveport mayor and city council begin to take shape, let’s drill down and into why these articles are more and more strongly opposed. In fact, in Shreveport and Caddo Parish, ...
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Sunday, January 14, 2018 … 11:33 A.M. Six weeks ago, thanks to City Councilman James Flurry, it seemed a long overdue clean-up of at least a key cog in Shreveport’s corruption wheel might be in the offing. Now, instead, Mayor ...
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Friday, December 22, 2017 … 9:03 A.M. Three days ago, I wrote yet another article detailing the Caddo Parish Commission habit of openly violating its own laws … specifically, our Caddo Parish Home Rule Charter. The article’s title is “CADDO ...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017 … 8:57 A.M. … Thanksgiving. Again this year, it poses a question for some of us: how do I properly express real Thanks for all I have been given? The answer has long been alive within ...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 … 3:00 P.M. Just as more and more Americans get their heads around what fake news is, here come the fake polls. The two have a lone and dishonorable purpose: filling spaces where truth cannot go. ...
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Saturday, November 11, 2017 … 5:12 P.M. Yep, ‘tis the season. The Shreveport political one, that is. To kick it off, City Councilmen Willie Bradford and Jerry Bowman, Jr., are speechifying to politically rough-up Police Chief Alan Crump. As the ...
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Friday, October 13, 2017 … 7:35 P.M. Stuart Lichter came to Shreveport today. Some of us locals, we now know, are not on his favorites list. For any who do not recognize the name, Lichter is the mega-rich (we are ...
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