Adam Duvernay

11 hours ago | shreveportbossieradvocate.com | Adam Duvernay

Sales tax revenues in Shreveport may be up so far this year, but it's not yet a sure indicator the city's budget is secure. Though sales tax revenues at the end of April were up by 1.6% from that time last year, a top city administrator says it's too soon to know if that's a trend or an anomaly associated with a roiled national economy. April's sales tax collections were up significantly, but what unfolds in the next few months will be crucial.

1 day ago | shreveportbossieradvocate.com | Adam Duvernay

Shreveport is hoping a few recent changes will shave several months off designing new infrastructure projects, especially those from the 2024 bond election. The city recently implemented a handful of procedural changes to its design process for capital projects aimed at making them shovel-ready faster. Though most are simple changes, they involve shortcuts, new responsibilities for some employees and prioritization of the work city leaders are most anxious to get underway.

1 day ago | shreveportbossieradvocate.com | Adam Duvernay

Shreveport is hoping a few recent changes will shave several months off designing new infrastructure projects, especially those from the 2024 bond election. The city recently implemented a handful of procedural changes to its design process for capital projects aimed at making them shovel-ready faster. Though most are simple changes, they involve shortcuts, new responsibilities for some employees and prioritization of the work city leaders are most anxious to get underway.

3 days ago | shreveportbossieradvocate.com | Adam Duvernay

Plans are in the works to build a new park in Bossier City — a super small greenspace hoped to provide some life and safety to a underutilized plot. Bossier City is developing its first-ever "pocket park," a reimagining of the city-owned greenspace on Shed Road and Airline Drive. With the help of a recent grant from the state transportation department, the Bossier City-Parish Metropolitan Planning Commission expects to begin building that park sometime next year.

6 days ago | shreveportbossieradvocate.com | Adam Duvernay

While the leader of Shreveport’s Catholic diocese on Thursday watched and waited with the rest of the world for the announcement of the new pope’s election, he knew already who would be chosen — if not exactly which man would be the 267th pontiff or what name he would choose to call himself. “People would ask me, as they ask a lot of bishops, ‘Who do you think is going to be elected?’” said Bishop Francis Ignatius Malone said Thursday shortly after the new pope's election.