Jerry Jones and Cedric Glover in runoff for Shreveport mayor

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Originally Posted by rhertz

I heard a Jerry Jones ad last week state that Shreveport is a billion dollars in debt with a shrinking population. Anyone know if this is anywhere close to being accurate? At 200,000 population, that would be $5000 for every man, woman, and child in Shreveport. I wonder what the stats are for Bossier?

Well here's a Shreveport Times article that talks about that a bit..

Shreveport's debt will limit next mayor's abilities to meet needs

When is a $137 million available line of credit not a lot of money? When it's matched against $1 billion in municipal needs, from water and sewer lines to streets.