Mayor Adrian Perkins and Shreveport Police Chief Ben Raymond are fighting a battle on two fronts: Cutting a proposed $4.5 million from the police department’s 2020 budget on one side, and combatting public opinion that the cuts will put public safety at risk on the other.

Fritze believes in family. It’s the foundation of his business at Red River Chevrolet, and he is the fourth generation of his family to operate the dealership. The fifth-generation, represented by his son and son-in-law, is already in place..

Half brothers Samuel G. and William B. Wiener made Shreveport an early hub for International Modernist design with their residential, institutional and commercial buildings in the 1930s through the 1960s. Their story caught the attention of Shreveport architect Mischa Farrell and Stacy Pfingsten with the Louisiana Architecture Foundation.

Segue, a group of five companies that are part of the Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program (EAP), is licensing technologies from area universities. Those assets are advancing medical research and commercializing North Louisiana’s academic and research assets.

“That was in 1989,” Tubbs said as he sat outside his store and recalled the scene back in those days. “They actually had the parade there for a few years. What would happen was that, on the Saturday of the parade, there would just be people everywhere, but no one would come into my store to buy hardware.

Global Strike Challenge is a biannual competition among the divisions of Global Strike Command designed to boost camaraderie within the command, which includes bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, helicopter operations and maintenance, and security forces.

r. Donna Johnson has a love for learning and a passion for sharing that love with others. Her dedication to higher education helped earn her the recognition of 2019 Young Professional of the Year from the Young Professional Initiative of the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.

In her role at Origin Bank, Allen oversees social media strategy and internal and external communications for the bank, which has offices in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. She is a member of the bank’s Brand Team, which created and launched the Origin Bank brand in 2015, when the bank transitioned from Community Trust.