Columns & Opinions

Caddo Commissioner Jim Taliaferro let the proverbial cat out of the bag recently with his announcement that he would run for Shreveport mayor next year. His declaration was only some 17 months before qualifying.

We all know that feeling you get when you wake in the middle of the night and you are not sure what you heard that woke you up. I have always been afraid of the dark. I don’t like not being able to see around me.

Who would have thought it would be so difficult?

Dagnubbit! Gol durnit! Son of a buck!

How is it that on your first day in office -- half a day – 17 executive orders were signed into law? Why? Seventeen perceived inefficiencies of the previous administration prompted 17 executive orders. Wow!

We have all heard it: “Karma’s a b----!”

When the citizens of a municipality like Shreveport are asked to pony up more taxes for infrastructure improvements and economic development, they want to see where their money is going. Over the years, Shreveport mayors and politicians have proposed and reproposed bond issues that rarely achieved what they said they were going to achieve, which makes citizens less likely to support future bond proposals and/or tax and mill increases.

That post on Spring Lake Neighborhood FB page on Jan. 25 at 9 p.m. reached over 400 people, but did it reach the right people. There were 70 comments on it and the police were notified, but what happened next? The gunfire was recorded on one neighbor’s driveway security cam, and although it was prolonged, it could have been a snippet from Robert Thomas’s famous video of New Year’s Eve gunfire in his neighborhood. No one knows what the police response was. Why?