Wednesday, August 11, 2010

I'm back, and Shreveport is newsy!

Hi, folks. Sorry for the absence. But after a week of vacation and another working with some great college journalists (see our work here), I am glad to be back on the city beat. And it's already been busy.

While I wasn't here to check in on our local leaders, at least other folks at the paper were. If you missed it, here is a Times editorial about Mayor Cedric Glover's handling of Government Plaza roof repairs. If you recall, water has oozed through the eighth-floor ceiling onto people, walls and cabinets since at least mid-2008.

Caddo administrators are getting dripped on, and the parish offered the city a loan early this year on its $1.3 million portion. The parish should bay about $500,000.

And here is Glover's response. (Seriously, folks. How many other places can you really go that will allow you to directly criticize analysis with so little censorship? Show some newspaper love here.)

Of course some of the biggest news of this week is plans to draw Louisiana College's law school to Shreveport. I'll offer more on that in the next few days.

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