Columns & Opinions

James Jefferson is the new Shreveport City Marshal

Yes, I am bullish on Shreveport, and am hopeful that the current administration, or if there is a new one, will be more active in selling the city, more vocal and more visible in the neighborhoods, and work hard to bring disparate parts of the city together.

By the time you read this article, my friend, Charlie Caldwell, will have been laid to rest. It seems that the older I get, the more funerals of friends I have to attend. Charlie was a good man, not a perfect man, but many things will be said about him at his funeral and in the days to come. I just know that he was my friend.

Re: Prentiss Smith op-ed in the Times: Racial gerrymandering for Shreveport City Council is a bad idea.

The reason it is so easy to get the wrong kinds of persons elected to office in this city, and sometimes the parish/state/nation, is that many of our voters appear to “just not care” anymore.

Never mind that Hollywood is a mess of preening self-regard. Movies are magic.

Without his church member Tabitha Taylor by his side, Shreveport Council President James Green looked and acted like a lost puppy dog at the Shreveport City Council meeting on Tuesday.

Before one dollar is spent on brick-and-mortar police substations, the city should consider raising the starting pay of Shreveport police officers to a minimum of $50,000 a year, with yearly raises that give officers the opportunity to make up to $100,000 a year, including benefits. This would attract a different group of potential officers that will be better educated and more qualified.