Grant Nuckolls talks about COVID-19 and its effect on Shreveport's business community. More importantly, we discuss government's response and ways business owners can apply for SBA loans, payroll assistance and loans to float business expenses to combat the effects of two or more months without a revenue stream. Grant is owner of Twisted Root, and (with Rhino's Andrew Crawford) part-owner of Jacquelyn's. He has seen a 60-70% drop in total revenue at both locations and has heard the same numbers from other restaurant and bar owners. The City of Shreveport, in concert with CoHab and Grant, launched www.shreve.biz to provide resources to struggling businesses in this unprecedented economic shut-down and quarantine.

Listen and learn how you as a sheltered-in-place Shreveporter can help out where our city and its citizens need it most.