Columns & Opinions

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.”

It was not a fire truck vehicle show.

SAINTS DEFENSE DOMINATES WOUNDED BUCS

Mayor Adrian Perkins, flanked by three city council members -- Tabatha Taylor, James Green and Jerry Bowman Jr. – made an announcement at a press conference on Friday, Dec. 17, to grant all Shreveport city employees a 13% pay increase.

A recent series of stories on KTBS Channel 3 about the “deadliest zip codes in Shreveport” was an eye opener and a look into who is being killed and where they are being killed in Shreveport. The overwhelming majority of them are young black men, average age of 27, and many of them are younger than that, and they are deadly. It seems that the only way they can settle even a minor dispute is with a gun, of which there are too many.