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Kevin Mayer, chair of live sports streaming service DAZN, has confirmed his ambitions of...

Lend me your ears I am not Marcus Antonius. I do not come to bury Shreveport but to praise her. I have moved to Shreveport four different times. My family lived here from 1955 to 1957, in Shreve Island. The family moved back in the summer of 1967, just before my junior year in high school. I was one of the students present for the first day of Captain Shreve High School. As I got ready to graduate from law school, I had an offer from Vinson & Elkins, a Houston-based large firm. It then had over 200 lawyers. It now has over 650. I was headed for bright lights and big city.

Print In other cities, 64-square-foot aluminum and composite sheds are being used as quick and inexpensive emergency shelter for homeless people. Not in Los Angeles. Here, plans to employ the minimalist structures, known as “tiny homes,” have blossomed into expensive development projects with access roads, underground utilities and concrete foundations — and commensurate planning delays. At the city’s first tiny home village, scheduled to open in January, each of the 39 closet-sized homes is costing $130,000, about 10 times what some other cities are spending. Five more villages are ...