re: Mark Hughes, owner of the Cannery in NOLA had a private meeting with Latoya Cantrell

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worse than destroya?

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I think so. He created the polarizing environment that divided the city in his attempts to get national recognition for future nation offices.

He created the divide between business owners and service workers. Before his ill-fated endeavors, everyone was working together to make the city better.

Now the service workers see DesTroya as beholden to business interest & business owners see her as beholden to SJW interests. The reality is she's an idiot, but neither side can agree & come together anymore. All this renaming everything is driving even more division into the community when school & street names have no impact on quality of life like crime, education, S&WB, street repair, etc. do.

But the TP will just keep running articles about Nola's racial reckoning on slow news days, with some classic lines like "Jim Crow Era" this or "White supremacy that," while moving the three articles about new murders to the bottom of the headlines section so as to refrain from overemphasizing prejudices.

ETA: Without those divisions, business owners may be more willing to make sacrifices to help out workers and may be more willing to work with the government to come up with solutions. DesTroya sees it as though she needs to keep everything shut down to protect a marginalized & vulnerable community in the midst of a racist virus.

Also moving from Orleans to Old Metairie currently.

People downvote comments like this because the question hurts their feelings. Why not just answer the question?

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Do it now! Existing home sales are booming

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if new orleans dies, metaire goes with it. some of you are absolute clowns

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Latoya's response was "I don't care."

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I doubt this.

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Every time I see this discussion I'm confused at how people advocating for JP and admitting OP is dying think this will work long term.

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What's long term? Detroit has been a shithole for decades and the surrounding suburbs are still very competitive housing markets.

Same can be said about a lot of "shithole" cities that have been "shitholes" with declining business interest. The money just flows to the burbs

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thought this for a while. I'm coming around to thinking he's been overtaken

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If you always think the current is the worst it may be a perspective issue.

She is pretty awful though and very well might be.

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Mitch would have ignored the statues people wouldn't be saying this. No chance Hard Rock would still be standing if Mitch was mayor. Latoya has zero political stroke to get anything done which is why her fall back position is authoritative power.

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Yea - I’m not celebrating him or anything but he was relatively middle of the pack. Plenty of boneheaded stuff but generally functional still

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What's long term? Detroit has been a shithole for decades and the surrounding suburbs are still very competitive housing markets.

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Didn't a lot of the commercial and industrial interests there move out to the suburbs with them concurrently? They are no longer just "bedroom" communities. Seems not quite the same thing as the GNO area, which is much more geographically hamstrung in that regard - not to mention, lacking in industrial and commercial interests with much mobility.

You're kidding yourself if you think JP's got a population or potential economy that can sustain a major metro. Hell, more of it overall has been on a downswing than upswing in recent years, regardless of what's happening in Orleans.

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I believe every word of this. I've heard horror stories from private meetings with LaDestroya. Really sad that someone so incompetent bordering on malicious is running (ruining) this city.

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Friend sits on NOFD union and he’s said their meetings are heated.