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re: What would it take to make NOLA great again?
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:46 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:46 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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What would it take to make NOLA great again?
Policies and tax incentives to encourage gentrification at warp speed
Start with a texan/floridian property tax law
This post was edited on 12/14/20 at 10:47 am
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Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:48 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Paid sterilization.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:52 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:52 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Katrina 2.0
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:54 am to VolsOut4Harambe
quote:New Orleans is known today for bounce music, crime, squalor, and the Saints. It's like that Spanish Jesus painting restored by a plumber. The only thing left to do is let go.
culturally rich
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:56 am to WildManGoose
Nothing can save NOLA
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:58 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Well, history of fallen metropolitan cities include partisan democrat leadership for decades. So a change there could help.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:59 am to VolsOut4Harambe
A miracle.
This post was edited on 12/14/20 at 11:01 am
Posted on 12/14/20 at 10:59 am to slutiger5
City is ungovernable.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:01 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Bring back the Italian mafia 
The Russians let too much go
The Russians let too much go
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:03 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Get rid of hipsters and thugs and vote in competent leadership with pro business policies and that supports strong law enforcement to make the city safer
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:06 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Allowing The East to return to an unincorporated status or self govern would be a good start.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:08 am to HECM62
quote:
Went to Galatoirs for dinner last week and the half block walk from Uber to the door was not safe. Very, very darkish.
Did something specifically happen on this half block walk that made it unsafe?
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:29 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Half, maybe three quarters, of the voting base here needs to stop voting. Period.
We have a mayor, and now a DA, who have serious ethics allegations/crimes. Cantrell isn't qualified to run a lemonade stand, yet here she is leading a city of 400K straight into the ground. It's good that she won't be bullied -- I just wish she'd apply some of that spine to policies that are good for New Orleans. She's wholly incapable of creating, identifying, or even pursuing those types of policies because she is an abject, loud-mouthed idiot.
Even still, I'm hesitant to say she needs to go, because it will indubitably be the case that her successor will be even worse than she is.
The problem isn't Cantrell...it's the low-IQ voter base that put her there. We can hate on her all we want, but she's merely a symptom of the real problem here.
But she's the right skin tone, so hoorah for that...I guess.
We have a mayor, and now a DA, who have serious ethics allegations/crimes. Cantrell isn't qualified to run a lemonade stand, yet here she is leading a city of 400K straight into the ground. It's good that she won't be bullied -- I just wish she'd apply some of that spine to policies that are good for New Orleans. She's wholly incapable of creating, identifying, or even pursuing those types of policies because she is an abject, loud-mouthed idiot.
Even still, I'm hesitant to say she needs to go, because it will indubitably be the case that her successor will be even worse than she is.
The problem isn't Cantrell...it's the low-IQ voter base that put her there. We can hate on her all we want, but she's merely a symptom of the real problem here.
But she's the right skin tone, so hoorah for that...I guess.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:32 am to VolsOut4Harambe
1. Repeal of state inventory tax to revitalize warehouse and shipping sector (this was a big factor in shipping moving from the Port of Orleans to the Houston Ship Channel in the 70’s)
2. A complete dismantling of the democratic party’s political machine in New Orleans to allow for better candidates from all parts of the political spectrum to have a realistic chance at being elected.
3. Massive restructuring of municipal government to reduce salary and pension costs while improving services (particularly for water, sewage, roads, and permitting/inspections)
4. Significant repeal of regulations on businesses and buildings outside of the French Quarter to reduce permitting delays and filing burdens for entrepreneurs
5. Better land-based casinos with sports gambling
6. Legalization of marijuana and prostitution paired with creation of a safe red-light district adjacent to tourist areas
7. Repeal of consent decrees which ban NOPD hiring from beyond Orleans Parish lines, along with massive reform of OT policies, increased training, and massive starting pay increase to attract new officers
8. Cleaning out the DA’s office and voting out of corrupt judges who routinely dismiss serious violent criminal charges and set absurdly low bail allowing criminals back onto the street to commit more crimes.
9. Intense focus on literacy education to ensure no children graduate from the 6th grade without being able to read and write.
10. Create a tax credit scheme to entice outside investment from white collar industries like advertising, software, and art design to attract young professionals to live in the city.
11. Incorporation of New Orleans East as its own city separate from the City of New Orleans with its own police, fire, utilities, government, etc. This would likely improve both areas as the East would be run by people who live there and care about its success, and New Orleans would no longer be drug down by the East’s significantly worse crime statistics. I would consider doing the same with Algiers as well.
12. Massive public works infrastructure investment to clean out storm drains, catch basins, prevent seepage, and largely eliminate street flooding from ordinary rain storms.
13. Clean Bayou St. John to make it an inviting and safe waterfront for boating, swimming, and fishing.
14. Connect MSY to downtown and streetcar system via commuter rail.
15. Reform streetcar system via technology and practices to make service more predictable, trackable, and reliable while continuing to expand streetcar lines to cover more and more of the city. That way, the streetcar can become a truly reliable way to get around the city for work and events rather than mostly being a tourist attraction. Perhaps the Canal Street line could be extended all the way to Lakeshore Park, the St. Charles line extended all the way down Carrolton to intersect with the Canal Street Line, and the Rampart/St. Claude line extended to the Industrial Canal at the end of the Bywater.
2. A complete dismantling of the democratic party’s political machine in New Orleans to allow for better candidates from all parts of the political spectrum to have a realistic chance at being elected.
3. Massive restructuring of municipal government to reduce salary and pension costs while improving services (particularly for water, sewage, roads, and permitting/inspections)
4. Significant repeal of regulations on businesses and buildings outside of the French Quarter to reduce permitting delays and filing burdens for entrepreneurs
5. Better land-based casinos with sports gambling
6. Legalization of marijuana and prostitution paired with creation of a safe red-light district adjacent to tourist areas
7. Repeal of consent decrees which ban NOPD hiring from beyond Orleans Parish lines, along with massive reform of OT policies, increased training, and massive starting pay increase to attract new officers
8. Cleaning out the DA’s office and voting out of corrupt judges who routinely dismiss serious violent criminal charges and set absurdly low bail allowing criminals back onto the street to commit more crimes.
9. Intense focus on literacy education to ensure no children graduate from the 6th grade without being able to read and write.
10. Create a tax credit scheme to entice outside investment from white collar industries like advertising, software, and art design to attract young professionals to live in the city.
11. Incorporation of New Orleans East as its own city separate from the City of New Orleans with its own police, fire, utilities, government, etc. This would likely improve both areas as the East would be run by people who live there and care about its success, and New Orleans would no longer be drug down by the East’s significantly worse crime statistics. I would consider doing the same with Algiers as well.
12. Massive public works infrastructure investment to clean out storm drains, catch basins, prevent seepage, and largely eliminate street flooding from ordinary rain storms.
13. Clean Bayou St. John to make it an inviting and safe waterfront for boating, swimming, and fishing.
14. Connect MSY to downtown and streetcar system via commuter rail.
15. Reform streetcar system via technology and practices to make service more predictable, trackable, and reliable while continuing to expand streetcar lines to cover more and more of the city. That way, the streetcar can become a truly reliable way to get around the city for work and events rather than mostly being a tourist attraction. Perhaps the Canal Street line could be extended all the way to Lakeshore Park, the St. Charles line extended all the way down Carrolton to intersect with the Canal Street Line, and the Rampart/St. Claude line extended to the Industrial Canal at the end of the Bywater.
This post was edited on 12/14/20 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:33 am to tigers25
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If we speak the truth about who and what the problem is and what needs to be done to make NOLA great again, we will get banned and called names.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:35 am to ibldprplgld
quote:
The problem isn't Cantrell...it's the low-IQ voter base that put her there.
She wasn’t put there by low IQ voters. She was put there by Uptown.
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:39 am to VolsOut4Harambe
a non corrupt political system and a functioning educational system.
neither of which will happen before the swamp swallows the city whole
neither of which will happen before the swamp swallows the city whole
Posted on 12/14/20 at 11:43 am to kingbob
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kingbob
a man with ideas. You and I can hope even just a few of those happen one day. 
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