PROPOSAL: NEW 0.2O/O PUBLIC SAFETY SALES TAX

KEN KREFFTBoth SPD and SFD are losing many sworn officers and firefighters, respectively.My view is that our low regional pay scale is the primary cause.At the City Council Public Safety Committee meeting of Aug. 18, SFD Chief Scott Wolverton cited a six-year firefighter who left to work for...

FUNDING OPTIONS FOR SHREVEPORT FIRE/POLICE PAY RAISES

Shreveport Fire Chief Scott Wolverton presented a PowerPoint presentation on firefighter pay and funding options to the Shreveport Council's Public Safety Committee on Tuesday.The presentation was overly long and really too detailed in many aspects.

BOSSIER DA SUES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CYPRESS BLACK BAYOU

Robert Berry serves as the Executive Director of the Cypress Black Bayou Recreation and Water Conservation District ("the district'). He is a paid employee.Berry also serves on the district's Board of Commissioners.

30-SECOND READ: PARCHED FOR CONTACT

JEFF GAUGER“Social distancing” doesn’t accurately capture our lives today. The term describes the public-health practice that protects us from illness and worse. But as a measure of the practice’s impact in real life, it is antiseptic, anemic, a colossal miss.Social? Not at all.

LOUISIANA HAS TO DO BETTER WITH RESPECT TO HIGHER EDUCATION

PRENTISS SMITHSome time ago, John McGinnis, the veteran Louisiana political writer, wrote that Governor Bobby Jindal was reluctant to raise the tuition at public universities and colleges.

THUMB ON THE BALLOT: CADDO PARISH HOME RULE CHARTER REVIEW

JIMMY COUVILLIONThe review process has now begun. The review is done by committee.The committee members are: Parish Administrator, Parish Attorney, Commissioner President and six citizens.This review is done every four years.

PERKINS NOMINATES WILLIAM DANIEL FOR DOWUS HEAD

Barbara Festervan, the director of Shreveport's Water & Sewage Department (DOWUS), resigned her position effective Aug. 14.Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins introduced by Zoom on the Shreveport Council's Aug. 25 agenda his nomination of William Daniel to replace Festervan.

MAKE SHREVEPORT BETTER, NOT BIGGER

JOHN PERKINSMr. Larry English’s Shreveport Economic Recovery Task Force (SERT) Plan is the talk of Zoom meetings all over Shreveport.English lives in New York City, but stepped up to fill a huge leadership vacuum in Shreveport, formerly known as, “a city on the grow.”

CADDO PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: WHO IS LISTENING?

JON GLOVER CONTRIBUTING COLUMNISTWhen I said, “I’ll/we’ll be good,” someone listened. John and Georgia Shaffer listened. John and Georgia Shaffer heard my tiny little voice, and they adopted me and my sister. They heard my voice.

FLAGS AHOY! CHECK OUT THE DECORATED BOX AROUND CONFEDERATE MONUMENT

The Caddo Commission voted to construct a box around the Confederate Monument in front of the Caddo courthouse in the 500 block of Texas Street.The public purposes for this effort was to reduce racial tension, protect the monument until it is moved, and for the parish to assert its rights as the...