The list of public offices up for election this fall is long and includes, among others, parish police juries, tax assessors, clerks of court, sheriffs and state lawmakers. Doubtless we’d like all of those elected to these positions to have some experience in the job they’ve been entrusted to perform by voters.

It occurs to me, however, that an inherent limiting factor in attempting to share a visit with District 3 Juror Wanda Bennett, administrator Bill Altimus, and engineers Butch Ford and Bruce Easterly is that Bossier Parish residents couldn’t be...

If there is an award for governmental long range planning, the Bossier Parish Police Jury would surely be a contender for recognition. As suggested in my last column, the jury’s longterm transportation and infrastructure planning is a heavy contributor to Bossier.

Our most recent conversation centered on transportation issues, and in this area like most of the jury’s undertakings, longrange planning is a keystone of the jury’s consistent progress. We picked up, generally, where we left off in a series of The Forum columns a year ago.

I believe that many of us share a declining faith in the rapid and rational response of agencies of the federal government to serious issues, but the Environmental Protection Agency’s and to some extent, the U.S.

The Bossier City Council’s Jan. 6 meeting was the occasion for a council resolution to refinance $20 million in 2008 transportation bonds for new transportation and redevelopment funding.  On J