News

Like the city of Shreveport, the Caddo Commission does not have the resources to remove all the debris from the recent two storms.

ROrBERSOtN Spos

New Marketplace at Boardwalk!

Louisianans whose personal information was exposed in a massive data breach that affected the state’s Office of Motor Vehicles last month, will receive one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced last Friday. The resources are being offered in response to a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a filetransfer program popular with corporations and governments. Among agencies that had their data breached were Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles, Oregon’s Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nova Scotia provincial government, British Airways, the British Broadcasting Company and the U.K. drugstore chain Boots.

How does one rebuild a life? A man who decided to rob a bank and ended up in Angola managed to find the path to a new life by walking with God.

The Shreveport City Council Public Safety Committee meeting on Tuesday, July 25, was productive.

The city of Shreveport entered into a debris management services contract with Ceres Environmental Services Inc. on July 11. Here is a summary of the agreement: 1. Ceres was selected from those companies that responded to an Invitation to Bid -- Disaster Debris Removal. 2. The contract allows 42 days to complete the debris collection. 3. Ceres will work with the city to identify alternative uses for the reduced waste that do not require disposal in the landfill. 4. Ceres is required to maintain specified insurance coverage to protect the city that includes any Ceres subcontractors.

What’s that? A day in the 80s? Does that nip in the hellfire air mean fall is approaching? One can only hope and dream about leaves falling from trees instead of sweat falling from your nose. Yes, aid is slowly on its way; fall will be in the air soon enough.