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re: NAACP officials: Baton Rouge needs its own city council again
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:17 am to Areddishfish
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:17 am to Areddishfish
Its just stunning to me this chatter has all come about becaustye metro council had the audacity to appoint a republican to fill a seat held by a republican who won overwhelmingly
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Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:17 am to doubleb
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BR is roughly 50% black and 40% white per 2010 census. I don't know where the 65% comes from.
The past 8 years
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:22 am to upgrayedd
So is this a good thing or bad thing for St. George?
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:28 am to al_cajun
According to Wiki, BR lost a few hundred folks between 2010 and 2016. It would be hard to imagine that many whites dying or leaving.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:29 am to al_cajun
More reason for folks in SG to stick together, but bad for the city.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:45 am to statman34
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St. George separates and takes the tax base with it.
St George will happen. As of ealry Saturday morning when i got around to signing, we only needed 900 more signatures and have until December (I think) to get them.
Baws, no doubt about it this time!
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:56 am to al_cajun
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So is this a good thing or bad thing for St. George?
It’s GREAT for St George.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:56 am to doubleb
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Did not New Orleans grow to "fill" Orleans Parish?
The city limits weren't always parish wide, right?
Not sure, but if I had to guess then I'd say you'd probably be right.. I know back in the 1800s, New Orleans had annexed a few areas from Jefferson Parish (notably the city of Carrollton). Not sure if all of the City of NO's annexations came from adding land from neighboring parishes or if there was once multiples cities/towns within Orleans Parish that were eventually all annexed by NO.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:01 am to doubleb
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It would be hard to imagine that many whites dying or leaving.
Not really that this is happening, more of a function of the
from the other side
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:02 am to upgrayedd
Query: Is that a necklace of Africa, a Pistol, or East Baton Rouge Parish?
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:07 am to Supermoto Tiger
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So is this a good thing or bad thing for St. George?
It’s GREAT for St George.
Great in the short term for the creation of St. George.
Bad in the long term for the new St. George to be adjacent to a declining city with a reparations-minded government and subject to the social and financial implications of that inevitable political disaster.
Same goes for AP and LP. More rapid growth in the short-term, but overlapping problems from decaying Baton Rouge in the long-term.
I'll be divesting myself of any financial interests in the greater EBR area as soon as possible. There are too many other places to live and work that don't face the bleak future of Baton Rouge and the area that it influences.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:09 am to Supermoto Tiger
quote:Where did you get this info from?
As of ealry Saturday morning when i got around to signing, we only needed 900 more signatures
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:12 am to Supermoto Tiger
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As of ealry Saturday morning when i got around to signing, we only needed 900 more signatures
Send me an email, I have to ask you something about this.
Tommy2tone_1999 at yahoo dot com
This post was edited on 7/31/18 at 11:13 am
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:30 am to Nguyener
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How can you be 65% minority?
Well, it helps if you learned math in the E.B.Arruh school system.
This post was edited on 7/31/18 at 11:31 am
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:42 am to Areddishfish
The NAAAAAAAACP is right about one thing... this current half-arse model makes no sense.
It's not a consolidated government. Orleans is closer to a consolidated model, but trust me we got plenty of stupid redudency here as well.
Why does the opinion piece mention city councils, but not mayors? Doesn't Zachary, Baker, etc have a mayor and a council?
Also, they mentioned pre-1983 there was a BR City council, and the metro council, but the metro council included the BR city council members? So basically if you were a BR city council member you were part of two bodies? That seems even stupider than the current setup.
Also... pre-1983, the mayor-president had to work with a city council and a metro council?
Give them what they want. Give them a mayor and a city council.
It's not a consolidated government. Orleans is closer to a consolidated model, but trust me we got plenty of stupid redudency here as well.
Why does the opinion piece mention city councils, but not mayors? Doesn't Zachary, Baker, etc have a mayor and a council?
Also, they mentioned pre-1983 there was a BR City council, and the metro council, but the metro council included the BR city council members? So basically if you were a BR city council member you were part of two bodies? That seems even stupider than the current setup.
Also... pre-1983, the mayor-president had to work with a city council and a metro council?
Give them what they want. Give them a mayor and a city council.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:48 am to Areddishfish
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65% minority population.
I'm curious what % of tax revenue is from minorities?
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:54 am to SeeeeK
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Safe spaces were all about having a place away from whitey.
oh the irony
Posted on 7/31/18 at 12:02 pm to Tiger Prawn
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New Orleans had annexed a few areas from Jefferson Parish (notably the city of Carrollton).
No shite? That location with its nice architecture and proximity to the city, with Jefferson Parish's services and tax levels, would have been a great place to live. Though I guess the streetcars would have never been routed through it if it were part of Jefferson.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 12:13 pm to THRILLHO
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No shite? That location with its nice architecture and proximity to the city, with Jefferson Parish's services and tax levels, would have been a great place to live. Though I guess the streetcars would have never been routed through it if it were part of Jefferson.
Algiers was an independent community until after the Civil War (I don't think it was ever it's own city, just unincoroproated land in Orleans Parish)
Posted on 7/31/18 at 12:48 pm to THRILLHO
Yep. Here’s a good article about it from Nola.com LINK
Irish Channel and Garden District were also once part of the city of Lafayette in Jefferson Parish until it got annexed by NO. Jefferson Parish got screwed bigly by NO in the mid-1800’s. Imagine JP today having the tax base of pretty much all of uptown
Irish Channel and Garden District were also once part of the city of Lafayette in Jefferson Parish until it got annexed by NO. Jefferson Parish got screwed bigly by NO in the mid-1800’s. Imagine JP today having the tax base of pretty much all of uptown
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