Tuesday, January 28, 2020 … 6:49 P.M. Within the hour, the Shreveport City Council voted to stop the Cross Bayou Point project in its tracks … ending negotiations with Mayor Perkins’ administration. Council members LeVette Fuller, James Flurry, Grayson Boucher ...
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Sunday, August 11, 2019 … 2:30 P.M. The Shreveport City Council will meet tomorrow and Tuesday to approve, or not, sending Mayor Adrian Perkins’ stupefying $220,000,000 bond issue to a November election ballot. Aside from the fact that Perkins (and ...
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In only two weeks, Shreveport City Council members must vote to approve, or not, Mayor Adrian Perkins’ mind-blowing $220,000,000 bond issue. Doing so is, of course, the political equivalent of walking the plank for our stunningly ill-prepared chief executive. The ...
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Finally. I had just about decided we who care were hopelessly outnumbered. I don’t know if it matters more to me that KTBS News aired the subject report, or that it turned to local accounting firm Heard, McElroy & Vestal ...
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As some readers know, I’ve been criticized here recently for “preaching to the choir” … not doing anything about local corruption. Although inaccurate, I completely understand the frustration. In fact, I can certainly attest, there are real reasons, far beyond ...
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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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November 6, 2016 It has not been a good morning for Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler, this year’s City Council Chair Willie Bradford, and a few other smoke-and-mirrors folks at City Hall. This article included, there is a lot of opposition ...
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SHREVEPORT, La. – The Metropolitan Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve of the Unified Development Code at a public hearing in Government Plaza Chamber Tuesday night. MPC Executive Director Mark Sweeney presented comments from the previous public hearing on Sep. ...
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