Columns & Opinions

I lived in Shreveport-Bossier City long enough to cotton on to north Louisiana’s concern that it’s a stepchild to in-state neighbors farther south.

Fortunately, Shreveport’s City Council has tapped the brakes twice this past month on changes to its authority under Louisiana’s Industrial Tax Exemption Program, needing to avoid bad models both local and from other parts of the state.

In case a reader has been sleeping under a rock, it’s not news that the Caddo parish Unified Development Code (UDC) has been taking fire, in a big-time way, from the Caddo Alliance for Freedom. This north Caddo group has attended two Caddo Commission meetings en mass as well as a meeting of the Shreveport Caddo Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) and expressed their strong objections to the UDC.

Inquisitor. Stop the presses! Professor Sadow and I agree on something, and that is a great place to start a discussion. Professor Sadow and I both agree, “no further study is needed” on annexations in Shreveport. The results of a decades-long Grand American Experiment in Urban Planning are in. The American Dream of unlimited growth forever is officially over. We are now living into an American Nightmare of sprawling decay right here in Shreveport, and we need to wake up. As noteworthy infrastructure and municipal finance blogger Michael Durand-Wood said recently on his blog, “Dear Winnipeg,” “We cannot afford the city we have built,” speaking of Winnipeg. Or as former Shreveport City Councilman Tom Arceneaux said recently on 710 KEEL, “The first rule of holes is, when you hit bottom, you stop digging.” Professor Sadow, Shreveport hit bottom at least three decades ago, but we are still digging. We are still annexing, and it needs to stop. Now! We can’t afford the city we have built, why build more?

In the wake of Dave Aranda leaving for Baylor, the search for a defensive coordinator was on and became the top priority for LSU and Coach Ed Orgeron.

In early 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump pronounced himself "neutral" in the conflict between Israel and th

You know you are getting old when you sit down in the local café in the community you have lived near (eight miles), have breakfast at 10:30 a.m., and both of the waitresses know you but none of the patrons do I know.

Each year one of my favorite things to once the NFL season starts to wind down is take a look ahead to who could be drafted where in the upcoming draft, this year to be held on April 23 in Las Vegas, Nev. With two weeks remaining in the season the draft positions haven’t been cemented, so I will use the projected draft.