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Despite such cost concerns, Walker noted that Bossier City was ranked by ''Business Week'' [[magazine]] in 2008 as "one of the best places in America to raise a child."<ref name=walker/> Bossier City also ranks on the ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine Top 10 list for job opportunities.<ref name=cng/>​

Despite such cost concerns, Walker noted that Bossier City was ranked by ''Business Week'' [[magazine]] in 2008 as "one of the best places in America to raise a child."<ref name=walker/> Bossier City also ranks on the ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine Top 10 list for job opportunities.<ref name=cng/>​

An advocate of highway expansion, Walker has been the president of the Interstate 69 Mid-Continent Highway Coalition. Some 1,600 miles is expected to be added to I-69 over a period of years as funds become available to connect [[Laredo]] and [[Brownsville]], [[Texas]], with [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]]. An approved corridor supported by Walker linked Magnolia, [[Arkansas]], to Haughton in south Bossier Parish before connecting to Tenaha in east, Texas, and then heading south. Walker convinced lawmakers in [[Washington, D.C.]], to provide designated funding for the highway project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bizmagsb.com/bossier-city-mayor-helping-craft-future-of-i-69/|title=Bossier City mayor helping craft future of I-69|date=October 14, 2013|publisher=''Biz Magazine''|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>​

An advocate of highway expansion, Walker has been the president of the Interstate 69 Mid-Continent Highway Coalition. Some 1,600 miles is expected to be added to I-69 over a period of years as funds become available to connect [[Laredo]] and [[Brownsville]], [[Texas]], with [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]]. An approved corridor supported by Walker linked Magnolia, [[Arkansas]], to Haughton in south Bossier Parish before connecting to east Texas, and then heading south. Walker convinced lawmakers in [[Washington, D.C.]], to provide designated funding for the highway project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bizmagsb.com/bossier-city-mayor-helping-craft-future-of-i-69/|title=Bossier City mayor helping craft future of I-69|date=October 14, 2013|publisher=''Biz Magazine''|accessdate=March 2, 2015; material no longer on-line}}</ref>​

Walker also ran without opposition for mayor for his third term in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/story/22384542/lo-walker-to-seek-third-term-as-bossier-city-mayor|title=Lo Walker to seek third term as Bossier City mayor|publisher=KTBS-TV|accessdate=May 12, 2020}}</ref> Early in 2015, he announced that he would seek a fourth term as mayor in the April 2017 municipal election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bossierpress.com/opinion-mayor-walker-puts-bossier-city-on-notice/|title=Opinion: Mayor Walker is putting Bossier City on notice|publisher=''The Bossier Press-Tribune''|author=Lou Gehrig Burnett|date=January 14, 2015|accessdate=May 12, 2020}}</ref>​

Walker also ran without opposition for mayor for his third term in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/story/22384542/lo-walker-to-seek-third-term-as-bossier-city-mayor|title=Lo Walker to seek third term as Bossier City mayor|publisher=KTBS-TV|accessdate=May 12, 2020}}</ref> Early in 2015, he announced that he would seek a fourth term as mayor in the April 2017 municipal election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bossierpress.com/opinion-mayor-walker-puts-bossier-city-on-notice/|title=Opinion: Mayor Walker is putting Bossier City on notice|publisher=''The Bossier Press-Tribune''|author=Lou Gehrig Burnett|date=January 14, 2015|accessdate=May 12, 2020}}</ref>​