REOPEN LAKE STREET! Shreveport, La. 421 Lake Street, Shreveport LA 71101 7 December 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Jason Cram, 318-990-9029 SHREVEPORT – An organized effort is forming to create a railroad “Quiet Zone” in Shreveport and reopen the critical Lake Street entrance to downtown from Clyde Fant Parkway. Organizers are targeting Mayor Tom Arceneaux’s proposed 2024 capital-improvements bond issue …
Those of us fighting the controversial Interstate 49 Inner-city Connector in Shreveport noticed something curious about the images on display at yesterday’s public meeting on proposed routes for the project. As you can see from these photos, the highway builders depict the ICC Options 1 through 3A with two lanes in each direction. When you get to Option 5, which …
First of Six: How Will You Vote on Caddo Public-safety Tax? QUESTION: On October 14 Caddo Parish voters rejected a 3.5-mill “Public Safety” millage. It would have collected an estimated $2.40 a month from Caddo property owners to yield $5 million per year for 15 years. The money would support programs for criminal justice, juvenile justice, workforce development, mental health …
BATON ROUGE — The work of the Louisiana Public Service Commission is critical to Louisiana’s plan to reduce harmful greenhouse-gas emissions causing climate change, according to members of the Governor’s Climate Initiatives Task Force. Task Force chairman Harry Vorhoff and members Virginia Burkett and Bill Robertson spoke at the August 16th meeting of the LPSC in Baton Rouge. They said …
