Barbara Moran of Shreveport, center, of Project Celebration, receives a $5,000 donation for the organization from Ron Smith Sr., right, of Central Louisiana Electric Co. Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, at left, encouraged CLECO to financially support Project Celebration and its work on behalf of victims of domestic abuse in Northwest Louisiana. The organization […]
TV Spot 1 TV Spot 2 These are the TV spots for the Foster Campbell Re-elect Campaign of 2014. They are airing in Shreveport and Monroe TV markets in time for early voting October 21-28. Please share them with your family and friends and encourage them to vote for #55, Foster Campbell, for Public Service […]
Autumn brings with it not only cooler weather and football but the arrival of hunting season. As a lifelong hunter and the father and son of hunters I gladly welcome the season. It brings to mind one of my projects as a state senator of which I am most proud: Youth Hunting Days. As […]
SHREVEPORT, La., 20 August 2014 – Today Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell submitted qualifying documents to the Secretary of State declaring his intent to seek a third term on the PSC representing District 5 in North Louisiana. “I have fulfilled my promise to be an active and independent commissioner who fights for the interests of […]
SHREVEPORT, La. — Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell will ask all electric utilities in Louisiana to send automated telephone and text messages to customers when outages occur. “The system I have in mind would let customers know when their power is out and when it will be back on,” Campbell said. “Storms and power outages […]
For 20 years I have promoted a tax on oil and gas imported into Louisiana for processing. I have fought the major oil companies over this issue like David battling Goliath, but I take comfort in knowing it’s the right thing for our state. A Processing Tax would replace the outdated 1921 Severance Tax, which […]
Louisiana’s largest electric company dodged a regulatory bullet last month, just getting nicked instead. Entergy Louisiana and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana have a combined one million electric customers in Louisiana, including many of the people I represent on the Public Service Commission in north-central and north-east Louisiana. The two companies are operating units of parent […]
Why does it cost so much for prisoners to keep in touch with their families |From the print edition MOST of the roughly 2.2m incarcerated Americans will eventually be freed. Those who remain in contact with loved ones on the outside are less likely, studies show, to return to a life of crime after serving […]
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell will hold public meetings in Caddo and Bossier parishes June 19 to answer questions from local residents about their utilities. “I invite citizens to attend and discuss any concerns they may have about their electricity, natural gas and other utility services,” Campbell said. Campbell will hold his town meetings […]
Reducing the excessive cost of telephone calls between inmates and their families will reduce crime, lower Louisiana’s incarceration burden, and right a moral wrong. On November 15th in Baton Rouge I will ask the Public Service Commission to cut by 25 percent the rate that monopoly telephone providers charge to families to speak to their […]