The popular mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, wants to quit—but he's got good reason.
Jeanie Riess
Jeanie Riess is a writer from New Orleans. Her reporting and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Oxford American, The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic's CityLab. She has worked for a daily newspaper in the Mississippi Delta and a New Orleans alt-weekly called The Gambit.