Columns & Opinions

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.

We have purchased Jim a power wheelchair. We had decided it was worth it when we are out and about to free me up from pushing the chair and give Jim some freedom.

Recently I had to move. I had to pack. And pack.

Alan Jackson is the appointed council representative for District E.

On one block of Patzman Street in Shreveport’s Allendale neighborhood sits SWEPCO Park, named after the donor of the land. Park grass growing so tall there that it covers the fire hydrant on that block. To live across the street from the hydrant, one would have to trust that the fire department knows the hydrant is near the stop sign, which is a little taller than the grass. There is no paint on the street pointing to the hydrant. Neighbors tell me they have given up asking for the park to be mowed. It won’t be mowed for the Juneteenth holiday weekend and Father’s Day.