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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This celebratory welcoming ceremony served as the launch for G-Unit operations in Shreveport.
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. First Amendment lawyer Scott Sternberg called Louisiana Senate Bill 482 “a repeal of the public records law.”
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There’s an effort underway, in the current legislative session in Baton Rouge, to reverse course on the controversial execution method with Senate Bill 430.
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Study: From 2012 to 2021 Texas led the country with nearly 7,000 animal cruelty offenses, six times higher than the national average.
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Social service agencies fear the proposed Arkansas budget increase of 1.76% for fiscal year 2025 will not even keep up with inflation.
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Report: 37% of all births in Louisiana in 2020 were to Black women, yet they accounted for 62% of all pregnancy-associated deaths.
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If approved, Senate Bill 276 would make it a crime to give a pregnant woman an abortion pill without her knowledge or consent.
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Ultimately, the goal is to move certain items out of the current constitution and put them into state law.
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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appointed a three judge panel to make that determination in the case of Callais v. Landry.
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House Bill 310 is subject to appropriation, meaning if lawmakers don’t fund it, the state can’t force schools to provide the product.