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.
There’s another Caddo Parish School Board survey to develop another strategic plan, this time three years.
I was probably about 8 or 9 years old when I heard a line from a play in which my sister, Barbara, was performing; the line resonates with me to this day. As I recall, the play was a South African play called “Behind the Yellow Door,” performed at Centenary College, and my sister played a wise, old street person that people from all walks of life would seek out for counsel. The scene I remember has a fellow in a business suit seeking advice from my sister’s wise, old character. Barbara puts down her mop, turns over her bucket, sits down and pontificates, “If you worry, you die, and if you don’ t worry, you still die, so why worry?” Made good sense to me then; makes great sense to me now.
It is de ja vu all over again, and now the mayor and his administration are coming back to the people of Shreveport with another bond proposal, one which could certainly suffer the same fate as the failed 2019 bond proposal. The question is whether there were any lessons learned about the process and whether the process is going to be more transparent than the last time, because transparency is important and necessary. The mayor and his administration are going to have to do a better job of selling these new bond proposals
The Northwest Louisiana Council of Governments (NLCOG), a committee made up of mayors and parish leaders from Northwest Louisiana, met Jan. 15 to consider updates on transportation projects in the region. Two items on the agenda of particular interest were the I-49 ICC project status and an update on the stalled Jimmie Davis Bridge (JDB).
The city’s operating budget reserve has risen very much. It is $24,000,000. Last year at this time, it was below $3 million. How has this eight-fold increase happened? What does it mean for the city’s finances?
Recently, looking through Christmas pictures and I realized that we have very few. Apparently, I was so caught up in the festivities that I failed to take many. Lord knows that if I didn’t take them then, there will not be any taken.
In the early1970s while stationed at Lowery AFB (Denver, Colo.), I was privy to the initial development of the Denver Technological Center (DTC). Cable companies United Cablevision, United Artists Cable and later AT&T Broadband, all had their start in – and still have major infrastructure around – the Denver Tech Center. In the Colorado area, Bill Daniels and John C. Malone were early adopters who shepherded many standards in cable technology still used today.
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