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Buffalo wings
Salmon
Weed

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"mental health journey"

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I took that to mean she smoked a lot of weed.

I guess Mike Small’s office will be busy for the next few months.

A bit of brown sugar will help cut the earthy taste of the beans and enhance your seasonings as well.

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The one in Monroe is at Carroll High School

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Apparently it will double as the Juneteenth parade.

Not a funeral procession. It’s the Run For The Wall motorcycle rally.

I don’t know where you’re getting your numbers from, but let’s go ahead and use them. If I say give me $80 and I’ll give you $200, then I turn around and charge you $200 for something else, you haven’t saved anything and you’re out $80. That’s losing money all day, every day. Maybe you think it’s a better use of those funds. That’s fine, but at least be honest about it. Honesty and transparency were not things we were afforded in this matter and that’s why it failed as miserably as it did.

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Well clearly you had no idea what that part of the amendment was about. I will try to make it easier for you.

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….let's break this down, shall we?

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The teachers have retirement savings accounts.

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- correct

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The teachers owe billions to the teacher’s retirement system. They have to pay interest to the retirement system because they are so far behind on payments.

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- This is not accurate. The "teachers" don't owe anything. The State has promised to pay retirees, but they have not set aside sufficient funds to keep up with rising salaries and retirees living longer. But there's little to no actual debt (i.e. bond issuances) that are associated with it. It's an unfunded liability. So it's not accruing interest.

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The interest they make in their savings accounts are way less than the interest they owe.

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- TRSL's investments have been doing quite well the past few years. They've reduced the employer matching rate they charge to local districts by about 4% over the past few years. And, again, they don't owe a lot of interest.

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The only thing those savings accounts can be used for is for paying the retirement system. So they were going to liquidate the savings accounts and pay down their debt.

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- This is not accurate at all. The State was going to liquidate three trust funds. I'm not sure what the third one is, but one is the Education Excellence Fund (EEF) and the other is 8g. EEF is the tobacco settlement money awarded to the states years ago. The State has allocated a certain amount to each district to use at their discretion (with prior approval). 8g is used for Pre-K programs. So if EEF and 8g went away, your local district was going to lose discretionary and Pre-K funding, meaning they would either have to come out of pocket to pay for those programs or cut them.

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They would have save so much money a year that they would have been able to give teachers ~$2000 raise

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- The Louisiana Department of Education released a projection of seven different scenarios of what they thought the savings would look like based on estimated rates of return and reduction in the unfunded liability. In three of the seven, most districts saved enough to cover the raises and in the other four most districts would lose money on the raise. This is beside the fact that districts would lose the EEF and 8g funds mentioned above.

TLDR: local districts were going to have to foot the bill for the raises because the State hasn't planned well enough for the future.

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it’s definitely not for coyotes

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I tend to agree, but I’ve seen coyotes in Monroe before.

Wonder what’s in those go bags? I’m guessing feminine hygiene products and Xanax.