“The nine words above were spoken by Shreveport’s Ms. Tabatha Taylor, the District A City Council member, to Police Chief Ben Raymond as he stood at the podium during a council meeting almost four months ago. Ms. Taylor made reference to the chief’s request for assistance from the city council and the mayor. He cited the many vacant police officer positions.
We live in interesting times. It seems almost daily that we hear about yet another cyberattack that cripples a vital portion of our economy, a mass shooting that stuns us at workplaces, and, of course, we are still “on-edge” as we slowly emerge from quarantined life, attempting to return to some semblance of normalcy. Locally, we hear “invitations” to increase our level of fear daily. It’s extremely easy to “curl up” in fear these days; these are the times in which we live.
Well, in the old days it was SOP, as in standard operating procedure, in Bossier City.
Realtiy TV cannot top the last five minutes of Thursday’s meeting of the Caddo Commission.
At the Caddo Commission’s last meeting on Thursday, May 21, Commission President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) announced that he was dissolving the ad hoc Pandemic Comittee that he had established earlier this year.
Remembering Gov. Buddy Roemer takes me back to the days we worked on his campaign as I would drive down U.S. 71 to Scopena knowing that another staff/strategy meeting would bring about another great vision.
Excited and a little nervous on my first day back in school, Li’l Mac came and sat down next to me. We both said “what’s up” to each other, and after a couple of instructions from the teacher, we began our work and our new school year.
I have said this countless times before, and I will say it again: Babies having babies is not a good thing.
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