All too often, citizens grade the performance of elected officials by their last few months in office or by a couple of actions during the term of office. The opinions formed are often 'good' or 'bad,' with little consideration of the totality of the official's actions during the entire term of office.
Up on All City Contracts
Now that the political dust has cleared, it is important to look back and understand what just happened over the past four years in Shreveport. The postmortem is always interesting in these situations, but necessary in order for those who have the power to understand the gravity of their decisions.
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.
' I love this time of year, and that was my first time attending a Christmas concert '
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.
WHAT I LEARNED AT ARCENEAUX'S FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE AS MAYOR-ELECT
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.
In March of 2021 a Shreveport judge awarded nearly $10 million in damages to the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit alleging the misreading and misbilling of Shreveport water customers. The ligation started in April of 2017.
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