re: Shreveport baws, why did your mayor baw return to Shreveport?

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good thing he kept his pie hole shut about it, could have been Jim Leslied

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That was some fricked up shite. I remember the day the arrested him for the Leslie murder. He was holed up in his house threatening suicide, with the police and TV cameras outside showing it live. If I remember right, a reporter who was a reserve police officer went in and talked him out. He died of natural causes before he ever went to trial.

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ETA: fun fact, Shreveporters fought more duels per capita than any other place in the United States in the years before the Civil War

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Link?

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Link?

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I read an article about it in the Shreveport Times a few years ago. It's probably out there somewhere but I don't have a link.

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sadly, I have to agree, lots of opportunities for it to be a great place, people there have a strange mentality there, they bitch about we don't have this, why can't we get that? then they get it and won't support it

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It's an odd place with peculiar people. Everyone I knew from college had this cult-like persona about the city. They would defend that place till death. Obviously, there is a decent amount of money there, but 65% of the city(and I may be going conservative here)is unlivable and filled with undesirables.

It's plenty big enough to have a big university (25,000+ enrollment), yet there isn't one.

Parts of it are plenty nice (the other 35% - realistically, probably 15%), yet everything seems to simply wither away. Good and bad. Which goes back to the

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people there have a strange mentality there, they bitch about we don't have this, why can't we get that? then they get it and won't support it

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you guys love trashing my hometown

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not trashing it baw, I'm from the 'port too, just makes me sad

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As someone who moved here about 4 years can confirm all of it. Shreveport/Bossier is a cult...with many sub-cults. Everyone has their regular things they complain about...but none of them could ever fathom leaving, and simultaneously believe the area is one of the most special places out there. Overall, it's a nice small-medium sized city in the south...it's a nice place to live...with some very amusing people

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I love Shreveport. I grew up in a small town in CENLA and moved to Shreveport in 1999. I used to think Shreveport was the "Big City". We had to drive to Shreveport or Alec to go to the mall when I was a kid.

Now that I live here and have spent time in Houston, Dallas and New York City I realize Shreveport is the perfect size. Big enough to have everything you need like specific stores and good dining, but small enough I can be in the woods hunting or fishing on 1 of 5+ different lakes within 30 minutes of leaving the house.

me too brother, me too

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The citizens of Shreveport who capitalized on the Haynesville Shale did not invest in the city.

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Given the leadership of this city it's not hard to imagine why they didn't invest, throwing good money after bad isn't a great idea.

I've lived here for 30+ years and it's always been about wasted potential. If all you know about of Shreveport is what you see from Downtown or I-49 then you are missing most of the picture, there's a lot of development going on and a lot of recent effort by those with the means and influence to start turning things around in earnest. The recent mayoral election is a good sign, I've got more optimism for Perkins than many based on the conversations with other veterans that have spoken with him at length. He really wants to leverage his resume, which is an enormous improvemt from the last barely literate mayor, to get some business development here.