Understanding a financial statement is no easy task for a lay person. However, a quick review of the Sci-Port audit* raises many red flags for the 2016 fiscal year. The report includes comments on transactions after the end of the June 30 fiscal year which further reflect negatively on the economic viability of Sci- Port.

Another one of former Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover’s legacy “accomplishments” may now be as murky as the city’s water billing fiasco, which is largely attributable to the Glover administration’s purchase of Triton water meters and its contract with the water billing software company.

No one can accuse Mike Wainwright and Scott Pernici, along with their attorney, Jerry Harper, of backing down in their legal crusade against the City of Shreveport to be compensated for what they assert are serious problems concerning the city’s billing for water.

The Independence Bowl is now 40 years old, and maybe it’s time to shut it down. This year’s game was played on Dec. 26 – a Monday that was basically a nationwide business holiday. The weather was great and so was the 4 p.m. start time, but not the crowd.

Madison Park was one of Shreveport’s first shopping centers back in the day, and like many such centers, its attraction faded as the population moved south in Shreveport and especially along the crowded and busy arteries of Line and Youree. However, there has been renewed interested in recent years and, in fact, days in this area.

No, Virginia, the Clyde Fant Parkway in front of the Barnwell Center is NOT paved with gold yet, but it may be if all the promises of the Shreveport Aquarium promoters come true. The Shreveport Council has approved a proposal to convert the Barnwell into an aquarium which according to a press release will open “in early summer 2017.

Whoever believes that attendance at Council meetings is important to representation of one’s council district obviously did not send the memo to Shreveport Council member Stephanie Lynch. The City Council meets twice monthly – it has a Monday work session and a Tuesday Council meeting.

The Unified Development Code is intended to combine the land development regulations of the city of Shreveport and Caddo Parish into one “simplified” and updated Code of Ordinances along with a new Zoning Map for the MPC’s jurisdictional area -– the city of Shreveport and five miles into the parish from the city limits (“planning area”).