It’s not spoken outside of education circles, but it’s known by every public school teacher and student: No matter how poorly a student performs in class, or assignments are missed, the student will never receive a zero. It’s a…
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Council names Jones, Wright to SEDD Board
The Monroe City Council named the last two members of the Southside Economic Development District Tuesday night, completing the district’s seven-member board. The city in 3-2 votes named two local Black business owners to serve as commissioners of the SEDD…
What is the strategy of this generation of Black leaders?
Each generation of our community has benefited from the thinking power of men and women who formulated the strategy for our community and led the struggle. The challenge for today’s leaders is to learn what those before them have done…
Council vote hurt Black chances for a slice of $48 million pie
The Ellis Administration ripped another page from the past Tuesday night when it pushed through a plan to spend $48 million on improving the Monroe water plant, without an aggressive push to include minorities, women and otherwise disadvantaged businesses. The…
Despite Chief Zordan’s “Woof Ticket”, murders are continuing
City hall is generally quiet about what is being done, if anything, to address both its actions to reduce violent crimes in Monroe. When Chief Victor Zordan became Chief of police, he came in like John Wayne riding a white…
Local officials often ignore, violate or hide behind open meetings law
Recently, several African-American elected officials hosted a public forum by Zoom to discuss issues relating to the Southside Economic Development District. However, one Southside city council member did not attend the online (Zoom) meeting and gave the open meetings law…
City King Day awards still political, looks like Mayo 2.0
When mayor Oliver Ellis was elected as mayor of Monroe last year, one of the things he promised was to end the city’s practice of politicizing the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration. Instead of ending the practice, the Ellis administration…