Jeff Ferrell
News Director/ProducerOriginally from the Pacific Northwest, and a graduate of the University of Washington, Jeff began his on-air broadcasting career 33 years ago in the Black Hills of South Dakota as a general assignment reporter.
Jeff has worked in several regions of the country, from the Great Plains to the Midwest… and from the northeast to the southwest, before coming to Shreveport back in 2000 with his wife and four kids, where they have lived ever since.
Throughout his more than three decades of news reporting, Jeff has covered everything from the crack cocaine epidemic of the early ‘90s outside Chicago, to prolonged droughts in Oklahoma and paralyzing blizzards in Pennsylvania… and from devastating gulf coast hurricanes to severe flooding. Jeff graduated with a master’s degree in history from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in March, and had just entered into a doctoral program until Red River Radio came calling, with a great opportunity to serve as news director at the public radio network.
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HB33 would require standardized active shooter response policies and enhance incident command training and mutual aid agreements between agencies -
Arkansas has the highest rate of food insecurity in the entire country, with nearly 19% of households struggling to afford food, according to Feeding America. -
The measure comes less than a month after voters rejected a constitutional amendment that included permanent teacher pay raises. -
Jobs are up 1.1% over the last year, while job growth in Louisiana trails most Southern States. -
House Bill 517 would change the tax on vapor products from $0.15 per milliliter to 33% of the invoice price. -
The issue has resurfaced under United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spoken against the use of fluoride in public drinking water. -
Louisiana State Representative Larry Bagley, R-Stonewall, says Louisiana is the only red state that requires them and is confident that there’s enough support to win approval this time around. -
A leaked memo reveals that $12 million in grant funding from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention could be at risk to DOGE cuts. -
Senate Bill 11 removes the 10 mph under the seed limit parameter, which means someone driving the speed limit, but obstructing the flow of traffic by driving in the left lane may be cited. -
Texas Senate Bill 762 stipulates that students, teachers, and others on public school campuses could be fined $500 for each day an unapproved flag [Pride, Black Lives Matter] is displayed after they’re told to take it down.
