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re: If LSU Dies - So Does Baton Rouge - Crime Related
Posted on 9/19/22 at 5:59 pm to RaginCajunz
Posted on 9/19/22 at 5:59 pm to RaginCajunz
LaTech & ULL fixing to get bigger. UL almost at 20 K already. Why would you send your Kids to LSU, unless your a diehard fan. BTR been bad for quite awhile, this senseless killing should be a huge wake-up call for those on the fence.
I’m obviously biased towards Tech & small town college, but if my Kids want a larger SEC school experience….it’ll be Arkansas & it’s not even close.
I’ve been told all my life by South La folks that north Louisiana is southern Arky anyway & not “real Louisiana”, so why the hell not?
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I’m obviously biased towards Tech & small town college, but if my Kids want a larger SEC school experience….it’ll be Arkansas & it’s not even close.
I’ve been told all my life by South La folks that north Louisiana is southern Arky anyway & not “real Louisiana”, so why the hell not?
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This post was edited on 9/19/22 at 6:03 pm
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Posted on 9/19/22 at 5:59 pm to NineLineBind
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As long as BR has the plants, money (and therefore people) will flow in at a steady pace
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:06 pm to RaginCajunz
As a current LSU student I genuinely wish I never attended this University. I regret it every day of my life. The constant fear now of being murdered, robbed, carjacked is not worth the piss poor education I am receiving. This University is a joke, I grew up loving LSU and almost everyone in my family has attended LSU but I am just trying to graduate as fast as possible and get the hell away from this University and this town. I genuinely hate LSU now, I want nothing to do with it and I encourage every high school student to stay away. The academics are a joke, the student support is a joke, if you are not an athlete this University has nothing to offer you other than the potential of being the victim of a crime.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:08 pm to NoBoDawg
USL has got to change their mentality before my kids ever go there!! To much woe is me about not being a state school.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:15 pm to theunknownknight
The city died after Kip Holden left.....
LSU is on the way to the coroner.
LSU is on the way to the coroner.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:19 pm to RaginCajunz
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I'm a dumbass for pointing out that LSU is the sole driving factor to moving here? It is the only thing that brings in fresh young blood.
Yes.
It’s incredibly ignorant.
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State capital means shite. It means it is where the politicians gather a few times a year
It means it’s where the department of education is located and the department of agriculture, the board of pharmacy and so on on so forth.
These provide jobs for those directly employed there as well as lobbyists.
You also have the political infrastructure of the state government which employees chiefs of staff political consultants lawyers etc.
On the private side it has plenty.
Exxon’s refinery in Baton Rouge is the fifth largest in the US
The port of Baton Rouge is the tenth largest in the US and a major Mississippi River port.
Dow has a major plant on the other side of the river.
That’s not bringing up health care whic includes the largest hospital in the state.
All of these bring in white collar and blue collar jobs with no ties to LSU.
This post was edited on 9/19/22 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:29 pm to SortsaUsl
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To much woe is me about not being a state school.
I assume you mean a flagship school, but few people really care about this outside of older alumni.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:35 pm to AggieHank86
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That is just a sad, sad commentary.
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AggieHank86
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AggieHank86
Really sad. But BR will still have the port, the river and petro-chemical industry as well as the state government.
What does College Station have?
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:39 pm to justaniceguy
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Jackson Mississippi?
Would be Laurel, Mississippi if it didn’t have the mechanics of state government.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:43 pm to RaginCajunz
What is unfolding in Baton Rogue is in many ways analogous to the crisis we all face as a nation.
We are at a crossroads.
I dare say that as goes LSU, goes the nation.
We are at a crossroads.
I dare say that as goes LSU, goes the nation.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:44 pm to LSUGrrrl
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My son will not attend LSU. It breaks my heart to type that but that’s where we are.
Got my daughter out. College in NC. I’m out of Louisiana and retired in 6 short years.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:45 pm to RaginCajunz
In this black neighborhood can you guess who stole the memorial cross with Alli’s picture attached and also her teddy bear and other stuffed animals.... all within one day of them being left.
But it’s the whites who are racists.
Sick of this bullshite.
But it’s the whites who are racists.
Sick of this bullshite.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:49 pm to Toomer Deplorable
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What is unfolding in Baton Rogue is in many ways analogous to the crisis we all face as a nation. We are at a crossroads. I dare say that as goes LSU, goes the nation.
I agree with most of this. You could almost pick any city that is in recent decline and observe that it is a microcosm of what’s happening nationwide. The murdered LSU student puts a spotlight on Baton Rouge though.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 7:28 pm to NineLineBind
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The murdered LSU student puts a spotlight on Baton Rouge though.
The sad thing is, the violent crimes occurring in Baton Rouge and other urban enclaves is overwhelmingly committed by blacks against blacks. Yet since this doesn’t fit the pre-scripted MSM narratives of white racial oppression, this black on black carnage is largely ignored and the manufactured terror threat of “white supremacy” is substituted instead.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 7:33 pm to Adam Banks
It's not only the artist types they are talking about, but tech start ups and other businesses. Why did Raisin Cane's basically abandon BR? Lack of business talent.
But we don't need all dem uppity book smart types.....not whe we got guys who know how to build guns and sexually molest minors too!!!!!
But we don't need all dem uppity book smart types.....not whe we got guys who know how to build guns and sexually molest minors too!!!!!
Posted on 9/19/22 at 7:54 pm to KiwiHead
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It's not only the artist types they are talking about
Oh really?
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This city has one thing going for it: LSU. The city has zero else in terms of arts or entertainment.
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other businesses
For which I listed numerous sectors that attract blue and white collar jobs
Posted on 9/19/22 at 8:22 pm to Adam Banks
A city requires more than plant jobs and LSU football to attract and retain talent and families. We’ve already had brain drain for decades. Crime is pushing the remaining ones out.
The state offices mean less and less when the affluent and upwardly mobile individuals and families hightail it out of state.
Detroit was once the richest city in the US until their plants got shuttered due to offshore competition and crime overtook it. That’s where BR is headed and I don’t see any way to reverse course.
The state offices mean less and less when the affluent and upwardly mobile individuals and families hightail it out of state.
Detroit was once the richest city in the US until their plants got shuttered due to offshore competition and crime overtook it. That’s where BR is headed and I don’t see any way to reverse course.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 8:28 pm to Bwmdx
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My daughter is a senior in high school. I had her make a list of schools she was interested and then looked at the crime stats for each city or town they were in. I told her no way was she going to LSU.
Well I have a rock solid solution for you.
Get ‘em out of the dangerous urban areas.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 8:31 pm to KiwiHead
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It's not only the artist types they are talking about, but tech start ups and other businesses. Why did Raisin Cane's basically abandon BR? Lack of business talent.
Exactly. This is the snippet from the Biz report article.
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For the better part of two decades the siren song of Baton Rouge has been our desire for young, educated professionals to make this place their live-work-play destination of choice, writes Business Report Associate Publisher JR Ball in his new opinion piece. The most influential among us have traveled to cities around the country in search of the secret sauce that lures the cool kids to our lunch table. On these canvas trips with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, the quest to land the star quarterbacks and head cheerleaders of the knowledge-based world has taken Baton Rouge leaders to such places as Raleigh-Durham, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Cincinnati, Tampa/Orlando and Phoenix/Tucson. We’ve recited the Memphis Manifesto. Declared ourselves the “next great American city.” Gone chumming with parties and TEDx talks. We’ve done all that—and more—and yet Baton Rouge and the Capital Region remains “creative class” deficient, Ball writes. These wunderkinds who create wealth by breaking paradigms remain our great white whale. They and their cohort are swimming in the blue ocean while we’re trolling blissfully clueless in the red. Adding insult to injury, the best and brightest of our most desired generation have this nasty habit of getting the hell out of Red Stick once TOPS is done funding their college education. Let’s face it, nothing seems to be working. So why not spill the tea and see if that attracts any CVs?
Posted on 9/19/22 at 8:34 pm to RaginCajunz
Short version... accept violent crime or you're a racist.
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