Should Bossier City have a city engineer?

No, it’s not a trick question, but it could be elaborated upon.How about this: “Should Bossier City hire its own city engineer versus a company as in the Manchac Group?”Section 9 of the Bossier City charter addresses the city Engineering Department (ED).

SOLUTIONS ARE NEEDED FOR OUR JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

KEN KREFFTContributing ColumnistI invite Caddo citizens who are interested in juvenile justice to watch for the formation of a citizens’ committee that shall (hopefully) have its initial meeting soon.The Caddo Parish Commission voted recently to establish such a group.

THE TIME IS NOW TO TRULY PROVIDE QUALITY EDUCATION

JON GLOVERContributing ColumnistWhat will it take?A half-billion dollar business, failing! Why? For how many decades have boys and girls here in Caddo Parish not been met with fair, equal and little to no opportunity to obtain a high-quality education? How many?

 IS BOSSIER CITY ATTORNEY JACOBS STONEWALLING PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST?

Manchac and the city of Bossier have formed a public-private partnership for the management of the city's water and sewage department and the city's streets and drainage department. Manchac has also taken over on a temporary/interim basis the duties of the city engineer.

IT’S 10 P.M.; DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GUNS ARE?

JOHN PERKINSContributing Columnist“Mama put my guns in the ground,I can’t shoot them anymore,That cold, black cloud is comin’ down,Feels like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door.” -- Bob DylanThirteen-year-old Kelvonte Daigre didn’t make it home in time for the Shreveport juvenile curfew of midnight on...

VIOLENCE IN SHREVEPORT IS A RESULT OF BREAKDOWN OF BLACK FAMILY STRUCTURE 

PRENTISS SMITH Contributing ColumnistWhether people understand it or not, parents have to be parents, and being “friends” or “buddies” with your children is the worst thing a parent can do.

SHORT HONEYMOON FOR INTERIM SHREVEPORT POLICE CHIEF SMITH

Mark it down. The honeymoon ended in less than two short weeks.Wayne Smith was named as the interim Shreveport Police Chief at a late afternoon press conference on Aug. 26.

COUNCILMAN DARBY NEEDS TO FOLLOW HIS OWN LECTURE ON "SECONDS"

No, this is not a lecture from Emily Post on how to hold your napkin, to hold your fork or when to go back for more food. Nor does it have anything to do with a clock and time.

PROPOSED DONATION BY CITY OF OLD LIBRARY BUILDING TO SHREVEPORT CHAMBER MAY BE ILLEGAL

The Shreveport City Council will consider a donation of the old downtown library building to the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce at its next meeting on Sept. 14.I previously published in Focus SB and on Settle Talk a column on this proposal: "Shreveport City Council Should Impose...

ARE CADDO COMMISSIONERS COVID COWARDS?

Here we go again--the Caddo Commission is opting to have committee meetings and the Tues. work session by zoom.