Columns & Opinions

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.

In the almost never-ending saga of major problems with the Shreveport Airport Authority (SAA), the sudden resignation of airport director Wade Davis for “personal reasons” should alarm even the most ardent supporters of the SAA Board of Directors.

No, it’s not a rhetorical question.

We have all likely, at times, experienced problems with listening. Some of us perhaps have experienced it more times and more often than others. Listening matters, and sometimes failure to listen can cost dearly. This can be especially true in relationships with spouses, children, close family and employers or work colleagues.