Clarke was selected at the Aug. 1 meeting of the MPC Board. Dale Colvin (who nominated Clarke), Theron Jackson, Curtis Joseph, Ronnie Remedies and Bessie Smith voted for Clarke. Nancy Cooper and Winzer Andrews voted against Clarke. Board members Lea Desmarteau and Alan Young were not at the meeting.

If all the public relations media releases by the Port of Caddo-Bossier are to be swallowed, then one would think the Port is a cross between Fort Knox and its gold treasury reserves and the Department of Currency that prints greenbacks by the millions.

I was in a local liquor store the other day buying a little spirits to keep my spirits up when a man, perhaps in his late 30s, walked in looking to buy some high-end booze. He did a double take when he saw the price and immediately asked the clerk why the booze had gone up in price.