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Posted on 5/11/23 at 6:47 am to BigBinBR
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The LSU angle only matters to locals and the national media because it draws attention.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:13 am to 9rocket
quote:They act like synchronizing the lights will take a team of NASA engineers to basically have to reinvent the wheel to make it happen.
I wish Nakamoto would investigate how much tax money they collected to synchronize the traffic lights and build the sidewalks and fix the roads and where the money went and who got what.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:15 am to Giantkiller
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dumped crawfish boil water near a storm drain.
Hole up..... we not supposed to do this? Asking for a friend
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:18 am to RealityTiger
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They act like synchronizing the lights will take a team of NASA engineers to basically have to reinvent the wheel to make it happen.
Looking at the abilities of the people in BR City government it would be the equivalent of the Apollo engineers to make light synchronization happen
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:22 am to fallguy_1978
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At that time the crime was mostly in NBR and a handful of SBR neighborhoods. It didn't spill over much into normal areas. It used to be a solid rule just to stay south of Florida Blvd. In the 80s you didn't even have to do that.
The people who claim "its far safer today than 30 years ago" literally are idiots. They look at raw data and don't notice that dysfunction has spread in urban areas.
30 years ago there were safe areas in most cities, and it was most of the city. These areas have been encroached, tremendously.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:27 am to RogerTheShrubber
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The people who claim "its far safer today than 30 years ago" literally are idiots. They look at raw data and don't notice that dysfunction has spread in urban areas.
30 years ago there were safe areas in most cities, and it was most of the city. These areas have been encroached, tremendously.
In the 80s, Monticello, Parkforest, Broadmoor and Sherwood Forest were all desirable places to live in BR. For the most part, the area north of Choctaw was the "no go" and and that wasn't uniform east to west.
Hell...Government/Goodwood is the hard demarcation line now and it is pressing towards Perkins and Jefferson.
frick John Parker
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:39 am to BigBinBR
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Her going to LSU is of no consequence. She wasn’t involved in a school activity. It didn’t happen on campus. She didn’t live or work on campus. The LSU angle only matters to locals and the national media because it draws attention.
This^^^
Plenty of kids at universities are killed every year and we rarly hear about it unless its attached to a bigger issue within the news cycle at the time. The Allie Rice murder happened to gain more news due to the shite show that is Murphy Paul's BRPD and skyrocketing crime within the city of Baton Rouge that was already making its rounds on national media.
The only thing LSU should be involved in, if anything, would be advocating for a "safer" city in general in which it is located. Higher crime rates eventually will deter and/or play a role in potential students from attending a school. This should be LSU's only angle.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:12 am to 4WHLN
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The only thing LSU should be involved in, if anything, would be advocating for a "safer" city in general in which it is located. Higher crime rates eventually will deter and/or play a role in potential students from attending a school. This should be LSU's only angle.
Correct, in this situation. Don't know why you are getting downvotes.
However, after watching how LSU handled the Brooks situation, it is obvious LSU isn't going to go out of their way to call out the real issue. Instead, they took on "underage drinking".
Yeah, that will solve the issues. LOLOLOLOL
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:28 am to EZE Tiger Fan
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Correct, in this situation. Don't know why you are getting downvotes.
He's getting downvotes because he brushed off LSU's involvement with "if anything." Every single parent/student that has ever gone through an LSU orientation remembers LSU leading off the presentation with just how serious and important it purports to take safety and crime on both campus and the city that houses the campus, how if LSU was a city itself it would be the 4th largest city in Louisiana so the university has a fiduciary responsibility to every parent and student yada yada. I'm not going to cite LSU's entire mission statement but again, they have been plugging this great fiduciary responsibility for the last 50 years plus, so they don't have an "if anything" plausible deniability especially when one of their students was headed back in the direction of campus and was senselessly ambushed and slaughtered simply from a crime of opportunity. And then then incompetent city had to finally admit it lied in the past about an alarming and growing gang activity miles from LSU's campus.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:39 am to Oilfieldbiology
No it's not that hard. The problem is our city officials suck at their job and float the money to other projects as well as procrastinate and sit on the idea and next thing you know it's ten years later and nothing has been done.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:46 am to 9rocket
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I wish Nakamoto would investigate
Nak is a little bitch. We have the second most corrupt building in the United States right here in Baton Rouge and nak is like an ostrich with his head in the sand.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 10:00 am to EZE Tiger Fan
LSU should have been using its resources and political clout to clean up the area around campus starting 30-plus years ago.
There is constant building and development by LSU on and near campus, so there is no reason they could not have improved those areas.
They could have built classrooms, student housing, parking garages, even some smaller sports facilities in some of those areas, or done some other things to attract private development and money.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 10:05 am to pizota13
Why do people think there is a gun registry?
Posted on 5/11/23 at 10:30 am to RealityTiger
then stop electing Partisan hacks from both sides and ban political party affiliation.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 11:06 am to Bjorn Cyborg
They did purchase and demolish those old row houses on the edge of campus near the track field. They were full of students, ex students, and dope. Then they built those luxury apartments.
I bet if they thought it would be profitable for them they would expand even further. But obviously it wouldn’t be so tough luck.
I bet if they thought it would be profitable for them they would expand even further. But obviously it wouldn’t be so tough luck.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 11:13 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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LSU should have been using its resources and political clout to clean up the area around campus starting 30-plus years ago. There is constant building and development by LSU on and near campus, so there is no reason they could not have improved those areas.
With what money? Have you been in an LSU non-sports building lately. They are falling apart and have been for 20 years. They “fix” roof leaks by putting buckets to catch the rain water. They routinely run out of buckets and don’t have the money to buy new ones so they use trash cans.
To think that LSU has enough resources to clean up the hood around the campus and police/protect people when they are miles away from campus is just living in fantasy land.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 12:07 pm to BigBinBR
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They are falling apart and have been for 20 years. They “fix” roof leaks by putting buckets to catch the rain water. They routinely run out of buckets and don’t have the money to buy new ones so they use trash cans.
Congrats, you have a twitter account.
New buildings are going up all over the place. Not spending money on old buildings that are due for a major rebuild or even tear down, does not mean there is no money.
LSU spent close to $800 million on capital improvements (New buildings and remodels) from 2015-2019.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 2:09 pm to BigBinBR
The LSU budget is over 1 billion per year.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 2:29 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Congrats, you have a twitter account.
No I’m speaking from experience. I’ve had multiple family members work for for the physical plant/facility services. And I know some people that are working there now.
I was literally talking exactly about this last week with someone in the roofing department. Their budget was exhausted by February of this year and does not renew until July.
This isn’t just 1 building that is in disrepair. It’s all of them.
When’s the last time you actually set foot in a building on campus that wasn’t a sports venue?
Here is what LSU says about capital projects:
Major capital projects listed as “New Projects” on the university’s Capital Outlay 5 Year Plan are mainly focused on renovations to existing facilities, rather than constructing new facilities, in an effort to preserve LSU’s historic buildings and actively reduce identified deferred maintenance items.
LSU CPM
This is repairing building you think need “major repair” or “torn down.”
New buildings for student housing aren’t part of the Capital Improvement.
ETA: and please link where LSU has extra money to buy and demo the surrounding “Hood” and police all of BR
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