Columns & Opinions

A friend recently quipped that it takes seven times doing something to form a habit. I’m not sure if that number is correct, but I do know that once a habit is entrenched, it is hard to break. That’s one of the things that has been worrying me over the last few weeks as local businesses have been told to close and stayat-home has been encouraged. Locals, out of necessity and concern, have turned in overwhelming number to shopping online. Not only are we buying clothes, toys, music, books and home décor, we are buying shampoo, makeup, groceries and dog food. There is nothing we cannot get online, in many cases delivered to our door overnight. It is — unfortunately — seductively easy and getting easier by the day.

— Loui

Where are the Chromebooks?

Thank you!

Prior to the serious onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Shreveport City Council was in a torrid battle over certain administrative appointments, certain economic downtown development projects, and in the opinion of this writer, a general divisiveness which was not productive for the city as a whole. This kind of divisive spirit is not entirely relegated to the council as a whole but a wave of elected officials both local, state and nationally. The announcement (s) recently of the potential devastating effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have upon our future ways of life are enough within themselves to cause each of us, citizens and elected officials alike, to take a step back and consider our ways. The overall cultures of our society will never be the same following this pandemic. Perhaps, just perhaps, this crisis will bring persons across this city, state, nation and world closer together void of prejudices, biases and just plain “bitter” personalities.

Shreveport City Council set to meet on April 14

What a swell morning to be alive.Sunday. I’m in the Adirondack chair on the patio soon after 8. The air is crisp, the sky cloudless.