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COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENTS FUNDING NON PROFITS PROVIDE FOR SOME ACCOUNTING

John Settle

Thursday, March 6, 2025

The column previously published "What Criteria Followed by Shreveport City Council for Funding NGOs'" lists the non-governmental organizations, all of which are non-profits, that have received funding by the Shreveport City Council since 2022.Many of these received city money for more than one...

🥊DING, DING, DING ROUND 3: COMMISSIONER JOHN-PAUL YOUNG VERSUS MAYOR TOM ARCENEAUX🥊

John Settle

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

By: John-Paul YoungMayor Arceneaux has generated media interest in recent days with his proposal to change the City’s property standards law to facilitate the arrest of trespassers found inside uninhabitable, blighted houses.

UNLIKE SHREVEPORT CITY COUNCIL, CADDO COMMISSION HAS GRANT MANAGEMENT POLICY & PROCEDURES

John Settle

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

The Shreveport City Council has doled out over $1.2 million dollars to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) since 2022 including a recent grant this year of $40,000 to three NGOs.

CADDO COMMISSION PROPOSAL TO FUND $100,000 FOR FOOTBALL GAME WITH NO DETAILS?

John Settle

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

The Caddo Commission agenda for Thursday has a proposal to fund $100,000 for "The Shreveport Bossier Kickoff Classic." If approved, these funds will be paid from the Oil and Gas Economic Development Fund.

SHOOT THE OWNER AND THE AUTHOR--NOT THE STAFF

John Settle

Monday, March 3, 2025

This is a personal request.I have owned The Inquisitor, now FOCUS SB/The Inquisitor, since Nov. 2019.FOCUS SB runs positive local news, most of which has not been published or had been under published.

MAYOR ARCENEAUX'S MEMO ON TRESPASSING AND SQUATTERS AN ANSWER TO JOHN-PAUL YOUNG'S JUDGMENT LAWSUIT?

John Settle

Monday, March 3, 2025

On Feb.26, Caddo Commissioner John-Paul Young filed a Declaratory Judgment lawsuit in Caddo District Court asking a judge, in this case Judge Mike Pittman, to interpret the so-called squatter's law.Commissioner Young and Shreveport Mayor Arceneaux have differing opinions on the authority of...

WHAT CRITERIA FOLLOWED BY SHREVEPORT CITY COUNCIL FOR FUNDING NGOS 

John Settle

Friday, February 28, 2025

Non-governmental organizations are referred to as NGOs. Presumably, the NGOs that receive funding from the City of Shreveport are non-profit organization.

HOW SHREVEPORT SPENDS RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT FUND MONIES

John Settle

Thursday, February 27, 2025

By ordinance, the City of Shreveport has established a riverfront special revenue fund as an integral component of the city's economic development strategy.

CADDO COMMISSIONER JOHN PAUL YOUNG FILES DECLARATORY JUDGMENT SUIT ON RIGHTS OF SPD TO ARREST SQUATTERS

John Settle

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The "debate" aka "fuss" between Caddo Commissioner John Paul Young and Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux has been ratched up another notch.Both Young and Arceneaux have aired their versions of a Louisiana law dealing with squatters in vacant houses on 710 KEEL's Mike and McCarty radio show.John Paul...

IT'S TIME FOR ALL NON-PROFITS TO LINE UP AT SHREVEPORT CITY COUNCIL AND ASK FOR MONEY

John Settle

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

At today's Shreveport City Council meeting it is expected that funding will be approved for three non-profit organizations without ANY written knowledge as to:1. What the funds will be used for2. The need for these funds in consideration of other funding3.

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