Shreveport’s April 2021 sales tax receipts reached an alltime monthly high of $13,756,900, easily surpassing the prior mark of $13,000,330, just established in January this year.
The renowned Canton Spirituals popularized the song “Clean Up.” In the song the artists seem to express that individuals who had messed up their lives from a spiritual perspective recognized the fact and the need that they, the individual(s), needed to clean up the mess which they created in their lives. Should this message hold true for a city’s blighted properties?
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”
Acknowledging that an energy crisis exists in our world today raises the questions of what is causing it and how to address it. More questions may lead to answers.
Standing on Cargill’s soccer field 1B with a group of soccer dads back in 2008, talk turned from presidential politics to raising young athletes in the new century. One conservative dad said something that I had never heard before. “The biggest danger to our boys from marijuana is getting arrested and thrown in jail,” he noted. That was 2008. Some of those young athletes grew up and got into a little bit of trouble with marijuana. Many of the families have since moved to other states for better opportunities.
Legislators have their hands full each session with the plethora of bills that come their way, facing the fundamental question: Who benefits if this bill passes?
Effective Jan. 1, the Caddo Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commision (MPC) will no longer have zoning/planning jurisdiction over the five-mile zone outside the Shreveport City limits.
Shreveport and Caddo Parish have a fine emergency operations center on Texas Avenue one block from SPD HQ heading to town. We really need it to be tornado-proof, able to absorb a direct strike by an F-5 tornado.
This article isn’t going to be about those voices that say, “We have the answer,” all the while not giving the answer but how can “we” address crime here in our city and in our parish. A solution needed, have one.
However, there is absolutely no excuse for the current “rash” of criminal activities occurring in our neighborhoods on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Or, is there? This article is not about pointing fingers. Enough of this kind of thing has already been done, although there is a dual responsibility and accountability on both our citizens and leaders alike.
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