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The City of Shreveport is set to host a series of meetings to discuss three bond propositions with the community ahead of the April 27 vote. The meetings will inform residents about the proposed ...
The Shreveport City Council meeting Tuesday July, 25, 2023, at Government Plaza. The Shreveport Police Department, alongside other authorities, is examining the circumstances surrounding the ...
Members of the Shreveport City Council discuss how to handle a batch of unauthorized raises to city employees at Government Plaza on August 16, 2023.
Politics of Shreveport. Founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1871, Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. The city is the parish seat of Caddo Parish. A portion of east Shreveport extends in to Bossier Parish because of the changing course of the Red River . The city of Shreveport has a mayor-council government.
Shreveport ( / ˈʃriːvpɔːrt / SHREEV-port) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. [4] It extends along the west bank of the Red River into neighboring Bossier Parish.
The 2022 Shreveport mayoral election took place on November 8, 2022, with a runoff election on December 10 because no candidate obtained a majority of the vote in the first round. It selected the next mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana. Incumbent Democratic mayor Adrian Perkins sought re-election to a second term in office, but finished fourth in ...
A special election will be April 27 following the Shreveport City Council's decision Tuesday to seek authority for bond issuance and incurrent debt. If approved by voters, the bond measure will ...
Businesswoman. Hazel Beard ( née Fain; September 16, 1930 – December 26, 2022) was an American politician who was the first woman and the first Republican to have served as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, since the era of Reconstruction. Prior to her mayoral service, Beard was a small business owner and a member of the Shreveport City ...