The Wild Card weekend of the NFL playoffs did not disappoint, that’s for sure. In the AFC, the No. 1 seed Baltimore Ravens got to sit back and watch as the other six teams fought for the chance to join them in the divisional round.
The Caddo Commission has approved two grants of $250,000 each to help fund Lighthouse Centers in Shreveport. One will be located at the Morningstar Baptist Church and the other at the Highland Center. Each grant will be matched by the Lighthouse Project Foundation. Each Lighthouse Center will feature the installation of solar panels to generate electricity along with back-up battery capacity. The centers will serve as hubs during power outages and natural disasters for the recharging of cell phones, computers and other electrical devices. The centers may also provide additional support services for citizens during times of need.
The Arceneaux administration has issued a public notice of the introduction of a resolution at the Shreveport City Council's Feb. 13 meeting calling for a special election on a proposed $256.4 million bond package. If enacted, it will fund street construction, public safety infrastructure, water and sewer system upgrades, and other municipal projects.
The recent litigation over the results of the Caddo sheriff election on Nov. 18 raised many issues, including voting more than once, absentee ballots cast by ineligible voters (interdicts, felons, dead people) and failures to correctly fill out that flap on the outside envelope that contained the ballot.
First impressions matter. That is why so much effort goes into striving to make Shreveport as clean and as beautiful as it can be.
The Women’s Philanthropy Network (WPN), a fund of the Community Foundation of North Louisiana, was established as a way for local women of all generations and philanthropic capacity to leverage their charitable giving to address pressing issues in the community. Each year, the WPN awards one large grant in the range of $50,000 – $100,000 to an organization with programs that address school readiness and/or student achievement, including, but not limited to, literacy services, behavioral health or other wrap-around services. Since its inception, the WPN has granted over $1.4 million to educational initiatives in our community! The application for the 2024 grant is now open and will close on Jan. 31. Apply via the CFNLA grant portal. Please contact Liz LaBorde for questions: laborde@cfnla.org.
As we talked about last week, LSU cleaned house by firing then-defensive coordinator Matt House and three assistants. Now, LSU feels as if they have found their man in former Missouri defensive coordinator Blake Baker. For Baker, he will be returning to the Tigers, as he was a coach on staff in 2021, but this time around, he will be in charge of the room.
Any other week and that headline would be at the top of this article. That’s kind of how I felt with this matchup. Every other year I would have been keener to watch this game. This year, things were different. It was hard to connect with the West Coast (14-1) Washington Huskies. It was tough to root for the Jim Harbaugh-led (15-0) Michigan Wolverines. Both teams are good teams, both champions of their respective divisions.
NFL is king, and even with the National Champion being crowned, the NFL Playoffs take the headline spot this week. After 18 weeks of fighting to secure one of the 14 spots in the playoffs, we finally have a full field of teams all playing for a chance to make, and ultimately capture, the Super Bowl and hoist the famed Lombardi Trophy.
The mayor and city council established a Capital Improvements Committee in August 2023 to receive public comment on and evaluate projects for possible inclusion in a General Obligation Bond Issue election in 2024. After numerous public comments and presentations from city department heads and officials, the committee recommends that the city council include approximately $256.4 million in projects for the voters’ consideration.
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