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Happy New Year, Shreveport!
Happy New Year, Shreveport!
Happy New Year, Shreveport!

Happy New Year, Shreveport!

Do you have decent water pressure? By now, water should be flowing. The pipes in our oldest neighborhoods were placed underground back around the time the Titanic sank, before Congress had begun considering declaring war on Germany to begin WWI. We’ve learned the hard way that pipes are past their “use by date” once they’ve reached 70 years old and should be thrown out and replaced with new pipes. For the oldest, that would have been around 1980. By 1982, when John Hussey was in his first term, the new mayor and council should have begun replacement in our oldest neighborhoods.

Glad Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Glad Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Glad Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Glad Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Glad Tidings of Comfort and Joy

There is good news for Shreveport and Broadmoor neighborhood this week. The Arthur Circle School property has been sold by the Caddo Parish School Board to Louisiana Key Academy, a charter school system that administers a curriculum designed to support dyslexic students. Appraised at over $1 million, the property sold for just over $862,000. This is fantastic for the Broadmoor neighborhood and for fans of the iconic Wiener Brothers Architecture in Shreveport.

MAYOR-ELECT SHOULD CONSIDER KEEPING CHIEF SMITH; HE IS DOING A GOOD JOB

MAYOR-ELECT SHOULD CONSIDER KEEPING CHIEF SMITH; HE IS DOING A GOOD JOB

The newly elected mayor is going to have to make some big decisions early, and that is expected. He wants to hit the ground running, which is admirable, and it appears that that is exactly what he is doing. He is staffing up with people who know what they are doing, like former CAOs Tom Dark and Sherrika Fields-Jones.

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