JOHN PERKINS
I attend Northwest Louisiana Council of Governments (NLCOG) meetings. I am interested in how our Infrastructure system became so fouled up. Best I can tell, COGs were formed by the federal government back in the 1900s to give small, dysfunctional governments some control over larger dysfunctional governments outside in other parishes.
At the last meeting of 2018, there was a sense of failure in the room. Mayor Lorenzo Walker’s longed-for pet project, I-69 through Bossier City by way of the Port, was dead.....
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