Columns & Opinions

On March 11 President Joe Bidn signed into law the American Rescue Plan of 2021.

The glass half-full or half-empty thing is a puzzle to me. I don’t know how to tell if I am mostly an optimist or pessimistic. It really is up to what the circumstances of a situation is.

Today, a dispatch from a poorly held position on bad terrain at the edge of battle. I seek reinforcements else I suffer an embarrassing rout.

Upheaval! Chaos! Those two words -- upheaval and chaos -- demonstrate the fate of many a community here in our city, but why?

Spring is in the air, and many of us will naturally begin to think about spring cleaning around our homes and yards. As we clean closets and gutters from all that has accumulated over the winter, let’s remember to “spring clean” our internal closets and gutters as well. Here are some suggestions to get us started.

I am writing on a topic which, I admit, is unusual for me. I enjoy columns on the Shreveport financial scene like sales tax receipts and budgetary and financial issues.

Goodness, it’s been sooooo long, as in too long.

The black-on-black killing by young black men in Shreveport is out of control. A lot of people are prone to make excuses for the urban violence of these young black men. There are those who would like to attribute the violent behavior of these young black men to systemic racism. Systemic racism is real, but that’s not what is making young black men kill each other, seemingly with no impunity. Systemic racism does not make a person pull out a gun and kill someone because somebody looked at them wrong. Systemic racism does not make a person pull out a gun and kill someone because they have on the wrong colors. Systemic racism does not make a person pull out a gun and shoot into a house or a car without any thought of whom that bullet is going to injure or kill. There are no excuses for the violence seen in Shreveport on daily basis, nor should there be. Killing is killing, and it is destroying the fabric of the city.