Columns & Opinions

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?

Jim Taliaferro’s launch of his 2020 mayoral campaign will be viewed by many as a good tactic.

In my house umbrellas are like socks. They just disappear. I know I have complained so much that in the past year I can think of three umbrellas that Jim has bought for me, and we have none in our possession now.

Tell me you’re a Gen Z without telling me you’re a Gen Z.

My wife and I lived apart for a time, quite a long time. Not by choice. Unforeseen job changes, children finishing school, college bills – the stuff of life – forced distance upon us.