News Radio 710 KEEL » city council http://710keel.com Depend On It! Wed, 22 May 2013 14:20:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Mayor's Veto Of Monetary Allocation Will Stand http://710keel.com/mayors-veto-of-monetary-allocation-will-stand/ http://710keel.com/mayors-veto-of-monetary-allocation-will-stand/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:47:38 +0000 James Stanley http://710keel.com/?p=12558 The Shreveport City Council has voted to sustain Mayor Cedric Glover's veto last Friday of an ordinance passed by the council on the 9th.  That ordinance came about as the result of the council's raising AEP SWEPCO's franchise fee from 2-percent to 5-percent.  It set up a special revenue fund dedicated to street repairs. 

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]]> http://710keel.com/mayors-veto-of-monetary-allocation-will-stand/feed/ 0 shreveportla.gov City Council Accepts Bond Bid http://710keel.com/city-council-accepts-bond-bid/ http://710keel.com/city-council-accepts-bond-bid/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:40:30 +0000 John Lee http://710keel.com/?p=8770 The City of Shreveport has taken another major step toward selling millions of dollars worth of bonds.

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]]> http://710keel.com/city-council-accepts-bond-bid/feed/ 0 City of Shreveport website Two Bossier City Police Officers To Be Honored At City Council Meeting http://710keel.com/a-couple-of-local-cops-to-be-honored-at-city-council-meeting/ http://710keel.com/a-couple-of-local-cops-to-be-honored-at-city-council-meeting/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:00:24 +0000 James Stanley http://710keel.com/?p=6761 Bossier City Police Chief Shane McWilliams will honor two officers for their actions in responding to a double stabbing that occurred in March.  Chief McWilliams will present the department’s Life Saving Bar to Officer Joshua Cheatwood and the Commendation Bar to Officer Stephen Boothe during tomorrow’s (June 7) regular city council meeting at 3p.m. in the Bossier City Council Chambers, 620 Benton Road.     

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]]> http://710keel.com/a-couple-of-local-cops-to-be-honored-at-city-council-meeting/feed/ 0 bossiercity.org Bonds to be Sold http://710keel.com/bonds-to-be-sold/ http://710keel.com/bonds-to-be-sold/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 15:29:17 +0000 John Lee http://710keel.com/?p=5774 The Shreveport City Council has taken the first major step toward selling some of the bonds approved in the April second bond election.

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]]> http://710keel.com/bonds-to-be-sold/feed/ 0 Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images Shopping Cross-over http://710keel.com/shopping-cross-over/ http://710keel.com/shopping-cross-over/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:51:55 +0000 John Lee http://710keel.com/?p=5076 Southeast Shreveport shoppers have been asking for it for quite some time. Now the city council has taken a major step toward making it happen. "it" is a vehicle and pedestrian cross-over between Sam's Club and the Target/University Place shopping complex

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]]> http://710keel.com/shopping-cross-over/feed/ 0 city seal Solid Waste Collection Fee http://710keel.com/solid-waste-collection-fee/ http://710keel.com/solid-waste-collection-fee/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:34:27 +0000 John Lee http://710keel.com/?p=3040 That $2.50 solid waste collection fee that everybody in Shreveport who receives a water bill had to start paying last month was repealed by the city council two weeks ago. However, that repeal doesn't take effect until today -- two weeks after Mayor Glover signed it.

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