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Shreveports 2011 budget a plan to spend $460 million is set. The City Council approved the mayors proposal Tuesday, about a month earlier than usual. Otherwise, it passed with little fanfare. Outside City Hall, the change most Shreveporters may note in the new year: a $2.50 monthly trash pickup fee, championed by term-limited Councilman Monty Walford. It will appear on water bills, just like the new $2.50 to be paid for recycling. Sales tax revenue pays for both now. The councils 5-2 tally showed only Chairwoman Joyce Bowman and Councilman Bryan Wooley voting against the new charge. Councilman Joe Shyne asked Mayor Cedric Glover to mail notices to the approximately 65,000 water, garbage and recycling customers. We will ensure that the public has a clear understanding of the nature of the fee, Glover said. Payment for garbage service should pump about $1.95 million annually into city coffers, Walford said, and can be used to keep the fleet of packer trucks updated. Inside Government Plaza and its reaches, Shreveport workers are slated to receive a 2 percent pay increase the first citywide raises offered in two years. Firefighters and police officers have seen salary hikes. Bowman wanted the current council to finish major budget work before new members start Nov. 23. The 2011 budget is about a 0.5 percent decrease compared to this years original $462 million budget. Next years budget doesnt include water, sewer and road projects proposed in a $165 million bond issue. Outgoing council members will let the incoming group decide whether to put it on an April ballot.

How much is product placement in schools worth?

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By Icess Fernandez

Anthony Tisdale has a decision to make soon. The Woodlawn Leadership Academy principal has to decide between Coca-Cola or Pepsi. The school has been a loyal customer of one of the major soda companies. It had been in the school since before Tisdale became principal two years

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The products
Coca-Cola products include Coke, Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Vitaminwater, Fanta and Dasani. Pepsi products include Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Sierra Mist, Slice, Mountain Dew, Aquana, Mug Root Beer.

ago. But the other guys are offering more money an additional $6,000 to $8,000. My dilemma is that one company is offering a bit more

upfront money, but the other ... we have a relationship with, he said being careful not to divulge which company is offering what.

Tisdale and Woodlawn are sitting pretty because two of the largest soda companies are in a heated competition to distribute exclusively at the school. They want to put up signs, serve their products and establish a presence at the 675student high school. In the war between soda companies, the battlegrounds SEE SODA, Page 7

EPA issues subpoena to Halliburton

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WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency subpoenaed energy giant Halliburton on Tuesday, seeking a description of the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. The EPA said it issued the subpoena after Texas-based Halliburton refused to voluntarily disclose the chemicals used in the controversial drilling practice, also known as fracing. Halliburton was the

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only one of nine major energy companies that refused the EPAs request. The agency said the information is important to its study of fracing, in which crews inject millions of gallons of water, mixed with sand and chemicals underground to force open channels in sand and rock formations so oil and natural gas will flow. The EPA is studying whether the practice affects drinking water and the public health. A Halliburton spokeswom-

an said the company was disappointed by the EPAs action. Halliburton welcomes any federal courts examination of our good-faith efforts with the EPA to date, spokeswoman Teresa Wong said. Wong said the agencys request, made in September, was overly broad and could require the company to prepare about 50,000 spreadsheets. We have met with the agency and had several additional discussions with EPA personnel in order to help narrow

the focus of their unreasonable demands so that we could provide the agency what it needs to complete its study of hydraulic fracturing, Wong said. Halliburton turned over nearly 5,000 pages of documents last week, she said. Drilling companies have largely sought to protect their chemical formulas, calling them proprietary. Environmentalists are concerned that the chemicals, some of them carcinogens, will taint underground water supplies.

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