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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Tuesday, October 10, 2017 … 10:22 P.M. … A report tonight from the KTBS Television News duo of Shon Gables and Gary Hines further details how the Architect & Engineering Selection Committee operating at Shreveport City Hall plays a major ...
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Sunday, October 8, 2017 … 12:10 P.M. Documents now seeping into the public record clearly detail how Mayor Ollie Tyler – and more and more attorneys funded by taxpayers – are working to kill legal discovery at the heart of ...
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Friday, October 6, 2017 … 8:09 A.M. Amid increasing news of related Shreveport City Hall corruption, a City of Shreveport internal audit details the deterioration of our water and sewer services, and, as KSLA News puts it, the … “ ...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2017 … 10:49 P.M. … Shreveport’s KTBS Television News is confirming that the U. S. Attorney’s Office and FBI are questioning various city officials in a probe of shakedowns and kickbacks at City Hall, including the administrations ...
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Sunday, September 17, 2017 … 12:50 P.M. … DEAR MAYOR TYLER … Some of your public comments since last Tuesday’s City Council meeting suggest to many of us that you misunderstand why we opposed your sports complex. I write you ...
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Thursday, September 14, 2017 … 1:35 P.M. What happened at Tuesday’s Shreveport City Council meeting may prove a seismic shift in local government. That so many people successfully took to social media to stop Mayor Tyler’s sports complex scheme is ...
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