Columns & Opinions

In addition to our egos, each of us possesses a personality. One of the toughest challenges I feel that a leader has to address is the delicate balancing act of soothing egos and smoothing personalities.

I love attending the Caddo GOP Luncheon each month. It is held at Superior Grill on Line Avenue in Shreveport, and, yes, sometimes I need a frozen margarita or two to get me through the speeches. But not on Jan. 4. The place was packed with local power brokers in this third or fourth largest city in Louisiana. I was in the last chair in the back waiting to order food when main speaker Rep. Danny McCormick was introduced by local businessman and radio talkshow host Louis Avallone.

Well, he ain’t in Kansas anymore. And he ain’t in the boondocks at Southern University Shreveport. Or for that matter the far away kingdom of Grambling State University. Alan D. Jackson put himself in the political arena by ac

The Caddo Commission hired the Data Center of Kenner, Louisiana to assist in the redistricting of commission districts based on the 2020 census.

With the hope of film production returning to Shreveport now firmly planted in Mississippi, where film tax credits are unlimited and there is movement toward elimination of the state income tax, word came that the Shreveport City Council approved Mayor Perkins’ plan to buy the Millennium Studios for $3.8 million. But it isn’t a done deal yet.

It’s a shame that Shreveport City Council members could not come together and choose someone locally known and affiliated with District E to represent the district. Governor John Bel Edwards, who has no local political skin in the game, should not have been the person choosing the district’s representation. Imagine the governor choosing a Republican to represent District F or District G. Citizens of those districts would be enraged, and deservedly so.

Shreveport City Council member James Green likes to quote a saying from his mom that “when you start out right, then you end up right.”