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Showing posts with label Local Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Local Government. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2015

Bobby Edmiston for Tax Assessor

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I said that I might be making an endorsement, so consider this the first one. Bobby Edmiston is a lifelong resident of Bossier Parish and...
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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Council says farewell to Jones, Hanisee

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Tommy Harvey was sworn in to replace Larry Hanisee on the Bossier City Council. Harvey replaces Hanisee on his 2nd attempt at the office. Ha...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Two Caddo ADA's resign

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Looks like a political staredown in Caddo Parish between Sheriff Steve Prator and DA Charles Rex Scott ended today when Scott blinked. Top ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

City Council will investigate payroll problems

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The Bossier City Council voted today to launch an investigation into the Fire Department payroll situation. David Montgomery was authorized...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The City Payroll and the Inconvenient Truth

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I’ve been doing a little digging trying to find out what the payroll situation is at City Hall that could have led to some of the problems t...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Bossier City Firemen underpaid $1,000,000+ since 2008

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A controversy was stirred up at last Tuesday's City Council meeting when Councilman Don Williams asked for an investigation into the fir...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Bossier Councilman questions Fire Department payroll

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Councilman Don Williams offered a resolution at Tuesday’s meeting of the Bossier City Council to investigate discrepancies in firemen’s pay ...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Bossier Deputies deserve better

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I have been trying to understand exactly what happened in the "under-withholding" that the sheriff reported, and the ensuing confu...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Sheriff’s ‘computer formula error’ raises questions

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An error in the sheriff’s payroll computer system is causing all sorts of problems, some of which are a little hard to understand. The erro...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Bossier City Building Maintenance Part I

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KTBS has a good story up on the Bossier City Building maintenance brouhaha. In case you are not familiar with it, according to the article ...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Police presence at Louisiana Boardwalk Part 2

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In December I did a blog post on the police presence at the Boardwalk. The blog post went into the question of Bossier City providing regu...
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Friday, June 3, 2011

Adley: Good governance or revenge?

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State Senator Robert Adley says that he has citizens who are concerned because, apparently, there is a law that says that in areas of the st...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Wakeup call to Bossier City Police Department

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I won’t give a bunch of links to the stories and editorials, I think everyone is aware of the situation which arose about the Bossier City P...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Wrap Up on EMS, Duxie Scott and Sammy Halphen

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Here is the most complete recap I can offer into the dealings of the EMS Board of Commisioners and the Police Jury concerning the hiring of ...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

City council to address street maintenance questions

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David Jones The Times has a good article this morning about streets in Bossier City, and the situation being faced by some residents who ...
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Monday, March 7, 2011

Zagone, McWilliams were both good appointments

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The blog post I put up about Brad Zagone being appointed fire chief was hijacked by commenters talking about the Masons.  That's okay, I...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Why the City Council special election must wait until October

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Several people have asked me why the special election for Bossier City Councilman couldn't be held in the election on April 2nd.  Here i...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Sammy Wyatt: I love Bossier City!

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Sam Wyatt held his formal announcement for the office of City Marshal on Wednesday.  Here are excerpts dealing with his experience and quali...
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Monday, January 3, 2011

Sheriff settles suit for $160,000

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Robert Clay Hilman was a thirty year old deputy with the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s office at the time of his death in 2008. A suit was filed...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Seaton Sacked

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I didn't rush into this one because I thought it was better to wait until more information was available. Now it appears that Shrevepor...
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