The Shreveport-Bossier City area is rich with nonprofit organizations making a difference in our region. Recently, leaders of several of those organizations have announced their retirement or departure.
“We had a number of principles that we thought were very important for the budget,” he said. “The two main ones had to do with a current-fiscal-year balanced budget, meaning starting the year with an operating reserve of about $25 million and ending...
Gregory Kallenberg, executive director of Prize Foundation, has some simple advice for anyone planning to take part in Prize Fest 2023, which will be Oct. 13-15 and Oct. 19-21 in downtown Shreveport.
In 1873, the city of Shreveport was desperate. The yellow fever epidemic killed a quarter of the city’s population in a matter of weeks. People were dying so quickly that city officials chose to bury 800 bodies in a single mass grave in what is now Oakland Cemetery downtown.