- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
re: From the parish… Meraux Foundation cuts ties with St Bernard EDF over container port
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:27 pm to cyarrr
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:27 pm to cyarrr
quote:founded to administer the (ill-gotten?) real estate fortune of former sheriff Joseph Meraux, and later his partner Arlene Meraux, who died in the 2000s and left no heirs. There’s been shadyness regarding the politicians and lawyers appointed (notably a former longtime sheriff), what they pay themselves for part time work, and controversy over what Meraux foundation land has been used for (such as what was sold for mixed income apartments). They did donate the land for our most recent elementary school, appropriately named Arlene Meraux elementary.
What is the Meraux Foundation,
quote:most people think all the trucks and rail traffic are going to ruin the parish quality of life. That’s the main argument. They’re concerned about the jobs the Port will attract, that there won’t be enough St Bernard residents hired, and also concerned about the impact on wetlands. They’ve also overblown moving a park and an elementary school down the road (the Port is being built closer to Violet, a historically Black town a few miles down from Chalmette). They did get a design changed for the port, which will keep St Bernard Highway in that area viable, as opposed to the original plan where St B highway curved around the facility
why are they adverse to port expansion
quote:the who’s who of St Bernard are on the Meraux foundation and they own the most valuable assets in the parish.
why does their opinion matter?
This post was edited on 4/12/23 at 10:31 pm
2
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:34 pm to chalmetteowl
quote:
We’ve been having drama relating to a Facebook poster we only know as “Storie Teller”, who apparently is in the know about local gossip, and has a down the road bias
Lost all credibility when he implied the SOS leadership actually supports the port.
He seems like the kind of person who believes the first link on a google search is the most accurate link.
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:36 pm to MizunoDude
quote:
Guy has done a great job as Parish President. St. Bernard is still a very nice place to live, work and play
Place has never been nicer.
The last 8 years have been an example of the old quote, “one day you are going to get good government, and you aren’t going to like it!”
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:40 pm to Finchboyz
quote:
The port is going to expand judge Perez and will be the nicest thing chalmette has had in its history.
Problem is, the plans to deal with traffic are far behind the port plans themselves.
Expanding judge Perez is a non starter. Need the new road for this to work.
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:42 pm to chalmetteowl
quote:
Meraux foundation
The ultimate, we were for it before we were against it…
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:44 pm to LSUFanHouston
quote:
The last 8 years have been an example of the old quote, “one day you are going to get good government, and you aren’t going to like it!”
It’s down the road people complaining that they’re not getting theirs… they want to blast out videos of fights at CHS for example, anything to make our school board look bad while remaining anonymous. For what purpose, for what reason? They’re the Facebook moms everyone else hates
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:49 pm to chalmetteowl
People bitch about living in a shithole like StB and when a massive injection of jobs and dollars comes along, they say no not here. After the fact these clowns will wonder why Houston and Mobile’s container business runs circles around Nola’s. People want business but no side effects. St Bernard already was massively subsidized by the rest of the state and feds when they got dozens of miles of floodwall and flood gates. Then they wanted subsidization for their pumping and drainage system. Now they don’t want a huge economic driver that could help pay back the rest of the state.
Wetlands concerns? What a joke, it’s all land locked by suburbia and 4 lane roads. Not hiring enough locals? Joke. Every excuse they have is a joke. The filing they brought before the 19th JDC was a huge joke that looked like some 3rd graders wrote it. NIMBYs at their best here.
Wetlands concerns? What a joke, it’s all land locked by suburbia and 4 lane roads. Not hiring enough locals? Joke. Every excuse they have is a joke. The filing they brought before the 19th JDC was a huge joke that looked like some 3rd graders wrote it. NIMBYs at their best here.
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:49 pm to mthorn2
Same in PR, there is a whole subdivision full of them yats.
This post was edited on 4/29/23 at 10:44 am
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:51 pm to man in the stadium
quote:
Now they don’t want a huge economic driver that could help pay back the rest of the state.
To some of these people, they don’t know there’s a “rest of the state”. They want to be big fish in a small pond and think outsiders will threaten their status and who they are
quote:no, they won’t. They’ll (or their kids will) be commercial fishermen like a couple of dads before them. You have to live here to understand how isolated down the road is…
After the fact these clowns will wonder why Houston and Mobile’s container business runs circles around Nola’s.
This post was edited on 4/12/23 at 10:59 pm
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:54 pm to chalmetteowl
quote:
To some of these people, they don’t know there’s a “rest of the state”
They know there’s a rest of the state when they do things like shoot down a tax to operate their own internal drainage system and then run to SLFPA and state agencies to demand they fund it. They definetely know there are state coffers because the hands are out without a morsel of shame for everything.
Posted on 4/12/23 at 11:11 pm to man in the stadium
With the way the west coast is fricking up their ports we would be insane NOT to expand / build more port capacity in the area
What do we want even more economic activity to go to Houston ?? Gotta make this one work m, warts and all
What do we want even more economic activity to go to Houston ?? Gotta make this one work m, warts and all
Posted on 4/12/23 at 11:16 pm to Shankopotomus
quote:
With the way the west coast is fricking up their ports we would be insane NOT to expand / build more port capacity in the area
How does our trade with Latin America compare with trade from Asia?
Posted on 4/13/23 at 8:37 am to chalmetteowl
quote:
It’s down the road people complaining that they’re not getting theirs…
Real talk here.
Down da road is mostly rural and/or poor (Sylvia Blvd and South Lake are exceptions). They are paying the same level of taxes as up da road and want the same services.
But... it's much more expensive to provide the same services, per capita, to a rural area.
The issue with the fire stations has made this clear. They want the same response time, because they "pay the same in taxes". Well, really, 1) no they don't, they pay the same millage (about... actually it's a hair more) but they don't pay the same total tax. and 2) People are more spread out and it's not feasible to have paid firestations servicing so few residents to be able to have same response times.
I've often felt that everything past the Violet canal needs to move to a volunteer FD or maybe a hybrid. Let all the shrimper baws down there put lights on their F250s and go fight fires. They would probably love the adventure...
Same with the schools. They want to open St B back as a HS, and they say they are ok with St B not having the facilites / options that CHS has, but no one actually believes them.
Before the storm, the up da road people could support the down da road people, but with the population only getting back to 2/3rds and not really growing anymore, that can't happen today.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 8:39 am to man in the stadium
quote:
The filing they brought before the 19th JDC was a huge joke that looked like some 3rd graders wrote it. NIMBYs at their best here.
yeah, that was pretty terrible, I agree. All of the 19th's judges recused, which SOS probably wasn't thinking would happen. An ad hoc judge basically said "no".
Posted on 4/13/23 at 8:47 am to man in the stadium
quote:
They know there’s a rest of the state when they do things like shoot down a tax to operate their own internal drainage system and then run to SLFPA and state agencies to demand they fund it. They definetely know there are state coffers because the hands are out without a morsel of
shame for everything.
You are missing some info.
Lake Borne was the only levee district in SLFPA-East to provide draining and pump services. SLFPA-East constantly was taking drainage and pump tax money and using it on the new levee system. Thus, the canals were in terible shape and the pumps even worse.
Then, Lake Bornge / SLFPA-East asked for MORE money to do the things that they were supposed to be doing in the first place, and were not. The residents said no, run the pumps and drainage with that tax money, and go to the rest of SLFPA-East to get tax money to run the levee system, as the levee system protects more than just St. Bernard.
Eventually, they got to the correct answer, which was for Lake Borgne to get out of the drainage / pumps business and focus only on levees. They were transferred to the parish, along with the state kicking in a few million to cover the fact that Lake Bornge was not doing the maintenace on the pumps that they should have been doing, with the money that was dedicated to that.
After the transfer, Lake Borgne allowed their drainage tax to drop off, and the parish passed their own drainage tax, for almost TWICE AS MANY mills as the old Lake Borgne levee tax.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:37 am to cyarrr
quote:
What is the Meraux Foundation
It's like if the mafia went "good," but still like the mafia.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:59 am to MizunoDude
quote:
St. Bernard is still a very nice place to live, work and play.
only compared to the surrounding Nola trash Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:39 am to chalmetteowl
quote:
In the same spot as their old indoor shooting range was?
Yes. It’s already open. Buddy of mine is one of the owners
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:48 am to chalmetteowl
quote:
blue-green infrastructure
What the hell is this?
Posted on 4/13/23 at 11:24 am to LSUFanHouston
quote:
Same with the schools. They want to open St B back as a HS, and they say they are ok with St B not having the facilites / options that CHS has, but no one actually believes them.
Fully support them opening St.Bernard High School back up.
While they are at it, let's open up AJ High School again so it can be like the good ole days
Page 2 of 3
Popular
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News