Sunday, August 20, 2017 … 1:20 P.M. … Even I do not believe what I now know about the outrageous plan of Mayor Ollie Tyler and our so-called “Sports Commission” to build a sports arena on Cross Bayou. Straight from ...
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Friday, August 18, 2017 … 7:33 A.M. In mere hours last evening, Shreveport residents began reacting to a KSLA-TV news story many of us find almost unbelievable. Here is the link to that report: http://www.ksla.com/clip/13606015/awkward-mayor-stops-crime-stoppers-executive-dir-from-speaking-at-news-conference Tyler and others on her ...
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Ollie Tyler continues to embarrass hardworking Caddo taxpayers. Today’s press conference, designed to give the appearance that Shreveport’s rising violent crime rates are somehow under control, only proved the ineptitude of the administration. The press conference about crime featured several ...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017 … 7:41 P.M. Not since the worst-of-the-worst days of Shreveport crime in the late 1980s have I heard as much worry about it as now. My research finds a good reason: positive crime facts and news ...
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Sunday … August 6, 2017 … 10:32 A.M. … I hereby set aside my research into our local crime statistics to react to an editorial in today’s Shreveport Times, one which opens the door to a broader and increasingly important ...
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Sunday, July 30, 2017 … 11:40 A.M. (I sincerely thank the members of our Metropolitan Planning Commission – “MPC” – and Shreveport City Council who have assisted me.) Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler is said to be well along in her ...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017 … 12:10 P.M. Yesterday, from KTBS Television News reporter T. W. Starr, we learned how Caddo Parish Tax Assessor Charles Henington, Jr., has recovered $1 million and counting by finding property owners who claim undue homestead ...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 KSLA Television has nailed down Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler’s continuing pursuit – in secret – of a minor league basketball team and new $25,000,000 sports arena for they city. Tyler would not confirm the meetings without ...
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Thursday, June 15, 2017 … 8:32 P.M. … A “Motion to Compel” filed in the Caddo District Court public record yesterday has notably increased political and legal pressure on Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler. The lawsuit – Suit No.: 596,181-A, Sand ...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017 … 12:05 P.M. Yes, Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler is burning taxpayers’ money by chasing a minor, minor league basketball team … which, if she “succeeds,” will cost us $25,000,000 for a “required” arena they can play ...
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Sunday, June 11, 2017 … 10:50 A.M. The push by Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler to build a $25,000,000 sports arena sets the Shreveport bar of public transparency and accountability at a new low. … This suspicious op came out of ...
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… Friday, June 2, 2017 … 8:57 a.m. … The details shared by witnesses are undisputed. State Representative Cedric Glover’s House Bill 667 perished yesterday, not with a bang but a whimper, as my favorite poet wrote it. When Glover ...
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Our local politicians and media have been completely exposed. The media now jumps into the HB 667 issue that first appeared in Elliott Stonecipher’s article (here) and exploded all over local social media faster than a cheap firecracker. It should ...
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UPDATE #3 … May 23, 2017, 5:10 P.M. Early word from the Shreveport City Council meeting, still underway, is that Democrat Mayor Ollie Tyler’s property tax confection / concoction passed with the expected 5-2 Council vote. All four Democrat members ...
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*** UPDATE *** … Monday, May 22, 2017, 2:00 P.M. My thanks to everyone who has responded with such loud disapproval to the property tax hike Mayor Tyler and a majority of City Council members had decided on … as ...
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