Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

Follow me to the Oasis: I was a Police juror for over ten years and one of the prevailing complaints I would always hear was: "There is nothing good happening on the Southside of town". People would speak so disparagingly about Southeast Ouachita always referring to the high crime rate, the poverty, the penal systems located there, the trash...on and on and on. As if there was nothing of any value located below Winnsboro Road. Contrary to popular opinion, I found a wealth of goodness right in South Monroe. For one thing that's where I was raised right on Burg Jones Lane in a very good ne...