By Victor C. Kirk I could not believe my eyes Monday night as we sat to dine at an excellent barbeque restaurant near Sterlington. A very close friend of mine from Monroe was returning to Monroe from abroad to begin…
Category: Opinions
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: The Science of it all
By Victor C. Kirk I am often amazed by the ability of scientists to discover a methodology to use the human genotype as a vehicle to solve medical mysteries. Once the human body was geocoded it was inevitable that science…
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Home Grown
By Victor C. Kirk Who do you turn to before your small business bites the dust? I would have thought the Chamber of Commerce or the Mayor’s Office of Community Development or the North Delta Economic Development District Commission or…
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Faith
By Victor C Kirk Like most of you I watched the horrors that unfolded in Oklahoma nearly a century ago but turned to both CBS and the History channel for a debriefing. So, if what I heard and saw was…
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Fear and Resolve
By Victor C Kirk I die in my sleep once a month now. Images of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police haunt me. I am a Black male in America in a state in the…
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Roe v Wade
By Victor C Kirk I am a pragmatic male and as such believe I am limited in my role in procreation. I provide the sperm that fertilize the egg. After its mad dash from my testicle, the female egg takes…
Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: The “Blunt”
By Victor C. Kirk A robust economy either spawns strange bedfellows or police reform has its shortcomings when profits supersedes logic. There was a time when securing funds for “frat” parties required putting in place “innovative” strategies. A traditional approach…