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2018 Mayoral Race,News,Shreveport
A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM ELLIOTT
To the many of you who are new to my work, I write these personal messages from time-to-time. Given that my FB page is not a public one, these have always proved very helpful to readers.
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2018 Mayoral Race,News,Shreveport
PT. 3 - UPDATE … SOURCES: PERKINS GIVEN PASS ON D.U.I.
This report updates our work detailing how Mayor Adrian Perkins was let off the hook on a D.U.I. violation late last Thursday night.
(At last count, Pt. 2 in this series has racked-up 443 Likes, an all-time high. I thank all
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2018 Mayoral Race,News,Shreveport
UPDATE, PT. 2 … SOURCES: PERKINS GIVEN PASS ON D.U.I.
First, I welcome the many new FB Friends now with us. It is pleasing that this work now consistently goes to the 5,000 maximum number of people aboard.
I will soon write a follow-up article about this page, but for now
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2018 Mayoral Race,News,Shreveport
SOURCES: PERKINS GIVEN PASS ON D.U.I. LAST NIGHT
As some readers know, I have been researching and writing articles about a host of issues for many years. Be that as it may, the story buzzing around Shreveport officialdom about Mayor Adrian Perkins being pulled over for driving under
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News,Shreveport
I’M DONE WITH “NEW NORMALS” & TO ME, SOME LIVES MATTER MOST.
I hope and trust that more and more of us are protecting as necessary against too much “news” consumption.
Yes, there are certain things we just about have to watch for, but suffering the deluge of ways the coronavirus is most
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News,Shreveport
YESTERDAY'S SHOOTING, DILLARDS AT ST. VINCENT MALL
The shooting / killing yesterday of a 19-year old at St. Vincent Mall certainly caught my attention ... especially given that earliest media reports had so few details available.
My thanks to KTBS-TV News for its update, linked below. It now
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News,Shreveport
HOW CAN I EXPLAIN WHAT JULY 4TH MEANS TO ME? I’LL TRY THIS:
Only the Christmas holiday is more meaningful to me than our July 4th Independence Day.
In fact, there are many dates associated with the declaration of America as an independent nation, and July 4th is a good ways down the list.
It
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News,Shreveport
FORBES MAG: PERKINS PUSHES UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME HERE
In all the decades of my involvement in Shreveport government and politics, I have never been more surprised by anything any mayor has done.
“Absence of transparency” is newly demonstrated and defined.
Mayor Adrian Perkins has included himself among a group of
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News,Shreveport
SOME OF US HAVE LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO FEAR THIS UNREST
I am typical of America’s “boomer” generation, born between 1946 and 1964. I was on the front-end of the group … those who saw and lived the worst, as it were, our generation experienced.
I was born in 1951, a mere
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News,Shreveport
SHREVEPORT CITY HALL POLITICS … A RUN-DOWN OF SORTS
The Shreveport City Council met Tuesday as scheduled, but fear of the coronavirus once again meant that it was conducted “virtually” by way of video conferencing. (For those who do not know, watching these meetings is a blend of jury
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