Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker keeps a palm-sized lump of concrete on his desk. He’s even taken it to Washington, D.C., to try to visually prove a point — at least two of the I-20 overpasses in his city need to be replaced. Now.
Almost every small community used to have a vibrant downtown. Some places probably still have horse-hitching ordinances on the books that say where your ride can be tethered.