Columns & Opinions

I’ll be worse off financially this year, despite the Social Security increase we just received. I won’t be the only one.

Amen. The “in kind” services by SPD, SFD, sanitation, SPAR, etc. is absurd knowing many Shreveport taxpaying citizens do NOT participate in parades and/or many events scheduled for Shreveport, and all receive “in kind” to a degree it is unreasonably costly and debilitating. Long overdue to have COS leaders address the inside down financial obligation approach!

I am surprised that no one has suggested a recall of Mayor Walker. Bossier City is in decline. Look around. Trashy roads, pot holes, reduced city services, inadequate police protection, water department outsourced, many other city services slated to be outsourced. The City Council can only do so much to save the city from inept executive leadership. We need a new leader. Why is an 87-year-old guy with multiple retirements still inflicting his mismanagement on us all? We can’t wait for the election. We need to recall Lo now! What say you, South Bossier? Rise up and take back our city from incompetent leadership before it is too late! Move on, Lo, move on!

The Louisiana Travel Association (LTA) introduced Gina dePingre’, sales and service coordinator for the Shreve-port-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau, as a member of the Louisiana Tourism Leadership Academy (LTLA) class of 2020 at its annual meeting on Jan. 30 in Charenton.

In a post on his Instagram Tuesday

There IS a reason that Bossier City kicked the Mardi Gras parades to the west side of the river many, many years ago. It’s called too much expense with police and fire protection as well as parade cleanup.

Lots of folks love animals, cats, dogs, parrots, ferrets, etc. Some love cuddly puppies and kittens than make messes inside and chew up the couch and grow up too fast. Some folks with big hearts adopt grown up animals who need homes and love just as much as when they were younger.

I am sure that many of you have heard the old adage, “politics ain’t bean bag” or “politics is a contact sport,” which is so true. Politics has always been seen as a dirty business by some Americans, and it will remain so. That is why it is called the “swamp,” because so many people think that it just swallows people up and they forget what they stand for or who they are working for.