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Posted on 8/12/15 at 4:25 pm to tgrbaitn08
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He's a strange cat.
He is, but not as strange as former warden Murray Henderson, who shot the hell out of his wife at her home in St. Francisville after she told him the marriage wasn't going to work out. She owns Butler-Greenwood plantation and he showed up in between the time that guests check out and check in when hardly anyone is around. They sat on the back glassed in sunroom and he shot her several times and then sat in his chair watching her bleed. A maid happened to come in to get some laundry and he told the maid Anne was asleep in the chair. She thought something was off and called someone or maybe the police. In any event, she shouldn't have lived, but she did and he died subsequently in prison.
I've read her book about it called "Weep for the Living" and talked with her about when I stayed at Butler-Greenwood a few times. Interesting story and a very fast read.
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Posted on 8/12/15 at 4:32 pm to Gris Gris
Cain is right about one thing. It's going to take a strong Governor to twist some arms and spend some political capital to get a loop built.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 4:33 pm to Crusty
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Because he thinks he is smarter than a collective group who discusses and debates the pro's and con's of a topic? Seriously?
No, because at some point you have to realize that the NIMBY's will never allow what needs to be done, done. A small percentage hold back an entire city/parish.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 4:40 pm to lsupride87
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without the persmission of your represenative
none of them are going to give permission
Posted on 8/12/15 at 4:40 pm to cgrand
The guy runs Angola like a mob boss. No way he should be anywhere near the governor's mansion. He is one of these guys that is a bible thumper in public and a pimp behind the scenes.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 4:50 pm to cgrand
In a way, Burl Cain is right.
A loop or any other new bridges being built in or around Baton Rouge is going to take an incredibly powerful governor that's willing to kick and bully the shite out of anybody that has an interest in stopping such an infrastructure project and that would be nimbys, parish presidents, EPA, and environmental activists. They fall in line, the infrastructure upgrades will happen.
A mixture of a governor like Huey Long, Edwin Edwards and maybe Bobby Jindal would do the trick. David Vitter has been talking a lot about traffic problems, call me naive and hopelessly optimistic but maybe he'll be that governor we need as far as interstate loops, new bridges and upgrading traffic infrastructure in BR go.
The political will has to be high enough to get it started and people in Louisiana respond well to the Emperor of Louisiana because lets face it, the Governor of Louisiana is extremely powerful with lots of teeth compared to most states that has relatively weak Governors like New York and Texas.
It's the only way shite gets done in this state.
A loop or any other new bridges being built in or around Baton Rouge is going to take an incredibly powerful governor that's willing to kick and bully the shite out of anybody that has an interest in stopping such an infrastructure project and that would be nimbys, parish presidents, EPA, and environmental activists. They fall in line, the infrastructure upgrades will happen.
A mixture of a governor like Huey Long, Edwin Edwards and maybe Bobby Jindal would do the trick. David Vitter has been talking a lot about traffic problems, call me naive and hopelessly optimistic but maybe he'll be that governor we need as far as interstate loops, new bridges and upgrading traffic infrastructure in BR go.
The political will has to be high enough to get it started and people in Louisiana respond well to the Emperor of Louisiana because lets face it, the Governor of Louisiana is extremely powerful with lots of teeth compared to most states that has relatively weak Governors like New York and Texas.
It's the only way shite gets done in this state.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 4:57 pm to Crusty
You're right and because of that NOTHING gets done!! 1000 personal agendas and pockets to line!!
Posted on 8/12/15 at 4:59 pm to WilsonPickett
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Baton Rouge Traffic ?@BR_Traffic 3m3 minutes ago The left lane remains blocked I-10 East at College Drive due to an accident. Congestion has reached LA-415 on I-10 and North 22nd on I-110.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 5:00 pm to cgrand
He'd make a great dictator. Governor not so much.
This post was edited on 8/12/15 at 5:01 pm
Posted on 8/12/15 at 5:14 pm to cgrand
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I wouldn’t have held any town meetings
The free world ain't a prison, Burl. Citizen input is crucial to urban planning.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 5:52 pm to cgrand
Posted on 8/12/15 at 6:08 pm to lsufan1971
He had a pretty good run in the 70s chasing after Bo and Luke.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 6:11 pm to cgrand
The reason you could build the interstate highway system through highly populated areas in the 50s and 60s was you had a large class of literally disenfranchised blacks whose neighborhoods you could build the interstates in.
It's messed up, but it's also factually true.
It's messed up, but it's also factually true.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 6:13 pm to lsupride87
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And you would be fricking livid when he put the loop right through your neighborhood without the persmission of your represenative
This thought, except not written like I'm from Picayune.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 6:17 pm to cgrand
Dipshit wouldn't have my vote. It doesn't work like that unless you are the leader of North Korea. Any poster agreeing with him is a total dipshit as well.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 6:28 pm to cgrand
We have spent enough on studies to build some kind of bridge bypass or loop. It is a disgrace to the city to have and Interstate merge into local traffic.
The only reason we do not have a loop is simply LA politics.
We built a bridge in Gramercy and one in St Francisville
that is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars- that bridge should have been built somewhere south of the new bridge(which is not new any more!)
The only reason we do not have a loop is simply LA politics.
We built a bridge in Gramercy and one in St Francisville
that is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars- that bridge should have been built somewhere south of the new bridge(which is not new any more!)
Posted on 8/12/15 at 6:40 pm to 756
Running monkey island is not like running the entire state
Would make for a mess of a governor
Would make for a mess of a governor
Posted on 8/12/15 at 7:54 pm to The Sad Banana
too late for a city wide "loop". maybe 30 years ago, but not in 2015.
shut down the washington street exit and overhaul it. build another bridge that is a bypass.
shut down the washington street exit and overhaul it. build another bridge that is a bypass.
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