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It's always been bad, it was like that in 2011 too. I'm sure building dorms in commuter lots hasn't helped but what can you do? You could build more garages but you would have to jack up parking fees to finance it.

I always biked or rode the bus. I had to commute from Cecilia for one semester to save money and hated it. LSU isn't a commuter school and will never be in the future.

My mother grew up with him, went to the same church in New Orleans as his family I believe and attended ULL (USL) at the same time. Very nice guy. He took out time out of his day to have breakfast with my mom during a trip she took to Los Angeles.
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Swagga

Landry deserves a lot of shite but one thing he’s done an excellent job of is bringing industrial business to LA.




Not really, they've barely broken the dirt on both projects and are using a LOT of corporate welfare.

I mean JBE had a lot of "economic development wins" and maybe half of them actually hired people and actually made stuff.
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Listening to a lot of economics podcasts over the last few years

Said there was a housing shortage and that we needed millions more homes and this was a driver to home prices. 


Housing crisis is a regional problem for areas with a decent economy. Is there a housing crisis in the Bay Area? You betcha. Is there a housing crisis in Monroe, Alec, or Jackson? No, there's a surplus because there's no opportunity there.
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Owners are in their 70s/80s/dead and themselves or the estate are trying to get upwards of $300k in an area with a dead job market, rising crime, and brain drain.


This. My parents have been trying like hell to get me to move back to our hometown but I can't find a decent paying job in my field to make it work. Whenever I tell them this they say I'm "making that up" or use some kind of anecdotal "so in so's kid has a job" argument. They don't seem to understand how economics work or how much the labor market has changed. I've given up, I'm not going to to take an 70% pay cut to live in a podunk town with zero opportunity and a bad public school system.
Didn't grow up there but my parents did. They left in the early 80's and moved to Lafayette for an opportunity in the oilfield.

I would say Morial's election had something to do with it among numerous other things. My dad's boss was a Texan and hated how the New Orleans business scene was tied to what Mardi Gras Krewe you were in or what private school you attended. The company ended up moving all their operations to Lafayette and Houston. The only thing they left in New Orleans was a supply yard in Marrero.
I used to watch the South African guys channel a lot. The American guy was supposedly being hunted down by the MSS before he left.
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Claiming Rand Paul is a tranny-loving globalist because Paul dares question the efficacy of Trump’s tariffs is the logical equivalent of progs claiming Trump is a puppet of Putin because Trump dared criticize NATO.


Gen Z liberals and Boomer conservatives are basically the same people just on opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Atlanteans, I maybe moving to Peachtree City this summer. Do yall have any recommendations on neighborhoods in that area? I know most of yall live north of the city.
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You need north Louisiana to do well . . . Otherwise you’ll have all the bad element moving down to Lafayette ? Don’t come fishing in our pond!


I highly doubt they would move it to be honest since it's well ran. If anything, they would just start a new one.
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He's currently on a ventilator in Lafayette. He has had kidney disease for years, and was recently in the hospital for heart failure.



His kids go to Westgate in New Iberia. Mr. Clean probably knows him.
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So uproot an excellent program from ULM and move it to ULL and further put north Louisiana in decline?



There's nothing in Monroe lol. It would attract a lot more students to have it in and near major healthcare centers. Sorry you didn't grow your economy?
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Didn't La Tech already try this?



No, LCU tried (in 2012 I think) to build one in Downtown Shreveport and Speaker Johnson was supposed to be the Dean lol.

It actually had the money but didn't have enough interest from prospective students so they never went through with it.

ULL has been trying like hell to get a medical school in Lafayette but I don't see that happening although I think moving the pharmacy school from Monroe to Lafayette would be a good idea.
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Northwestern state shouldn’t even be open anymore in general let alone have a law school


Needs to merge with LSUA or LSUS.

If you count LSUA, the northern half of the state has 6 public 4 year universities. That's way too many for an area of the state that only has a third of the state's population.
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One in the northern part of the state is a good idea.



No it isn't. North Louisiana doesn't have the population, economy, or legal job market to warrant a new law school. This is just another jobs program for liberals and ambulance chasers. If you want a legal education, go to LSU. There's municipal, state, federal, and appeals courts in BR where students can get plenty of experience.
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Matt Dillion said it best, "You can't start telling a man how to raise his own son."

Yes you can. Kind of wish I would of criticized my sister's parenting style more because her kids are very incompetent and can't function in society. World would be a better place if we shamed and judged people more who deserve it. Society is gradually crumbling because we're too worried about people's feelings.
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Georgia is the greatest ever.


I don't know about all that but it's definitely better than Houston.