Columns & Opinions

Landry Anglin was not the first child killed in Shreveport by a stray bullet from lawless and violent criminals, but she is the latest. And although some people want to make the race of the victim an issue, those people are wrong. The race of the victim should not be something that people are focused on. Everything just can’t be about race. It doesn’t matter, nor should it.

Not long ago I saw a cartoon about the difference in being a newlywed and being married for 10 years. In it the newlyweds were sitting in a crowd looking into each other’s eyes, and the long-married couple were reading their phones not paying each other any attention. I got to thinking that it is so true, what you believe marriage will be like in the beginning to what it evolves into.

Caddo Commissioner Jim Taliaferro announced last year that he would qualify to run for Shreveport mayor this year. He was unsuccessful in 2018, finishing third in the primary behind Adrian Perkins and Ollie Tyler.

Ron Lattier was confirmed as Shreveport's city attorney on Aug. 20, 2020.

What new and innovative lie will tinkle the ears of the voters this time? Will it be that traditional lie: “Vote for me, and I’ll set you free”? What will the new lie be that entices you or even me to support a position that never demonstrates you or me?

News from Baton Rouge last week that a bill has been introduced in the Senate to claw back the $100-million-dollar 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster settlement that had been set aside for Northwest Louisiana and specifically the Jimmie Davis Bridge repair. In 2019, former Senator John Milkovich and Senator Barrow Peacock added an amendment removing the Jimmie Davis Bridge (JDB) from that bill and replaced it with the I-49 Inner-City Connector in Caddo Parish.

The drawing of Caddo Parish school districts should not be a partisan exercise, but it should reflect the population changes that have taken place over the last 10 years. It is important for the districts to align with the demographic changes that have taken place, but not at the expense of being seen as unfair to one group or another.

Data Centers, LLC has been contracted to provide redistricting services for the Caddo Commission.