Tag: Roosevelt Wright Jr.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Monday, the nation will celebrate the birth and commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., hopefully in ways that will tell his story as a new generation learns about the ideals of the dream. It should be a…

The City of Monroe has hired a local company to rebrand the city in time for the mayor’s state of the city address in February; it’s a great idea, but the timeline is too short. In its November 24th meeting,…