I have always envied those people who could pull off a week-long retreat between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day to reflect on life and make any course corrections for the upcoming year. Little did I know my first opportunity to be like them would come in a fifth-floor hospital room.

Except it didn’t make sense to Clark. “Not at all,” Clark said. “I didn’t have any idea that I would go into education. I had actually interviewed with Xerox and a couple of other companies. I really wanted to move and do the big corporate world thing in marketing – my undergraduate degree is in marketing.

The Southern Belle Apartments – note the “e” added to the word “Bell” – is one of the newer options for those who want to call downtown “home.” At 627 Crockett St., the Southern Belle features one, twoand three-bedroom units, ranging in price from $1,350 to $2,875 per month.

There are always motivations to do what is wrong in order to gain something. Maybe it’s lying on a resumé to get a job or taking something from someone that doesn’t belong to you just because you wanted it (or needed it).

Three years ago, Mark Rodie, a minister who heads a group called Men of Courage, found his group growing and looking for a purpose. They learned about the Cumberland section of old Bossier, the highest crime, highest poverty and the city’s lowest educational achievement area.

The Court wrote, “But even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten. The restrictions at issue here, by effectively barring many from attending religious services, strike at the very heart of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty.

No one expresses the sentiment of home more than Perry Como when we hear the lyrics to his beloved Christmas song, “Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays.” It is a warm and fuzzy emotion that many of us experience as we make plans to head “home” and visit our loved ones, especially aging parents, during the holiday season.

Are you looking for a location for your business or an investment opportunity in the downtown Shreveport area? This property at 700 Texas St. may be just what you are seeking. Offered by Walker- Alley & Associates, it is on a prime corner location at Texas and Louisiana streets and most recently housed Tipitina's Foundation.

So far, nine states and the District of Columbia plan to hold universal mail-in elections in which ballots are automatically mailed to all registered voters without needing first to request one. This presents a host of election fraud issues, insofar as mail-in ballots make voter identity suspect and are often uncheckable.