Sorry, I only saw the pictures...when I clicked the x I got the article, now read.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 10:13 amIf you read the article it says the new mayor's plan is to invest a significant amount of money in various projects in the city of St Louis. The hope is that doing so will make a difference. I wish the mayor the best of luck. What she is proposing is the same thing many of the more progressive folks on this have been advocating. Time will tell if that idea will work. Why were you hinting there was some sort of racial overtone to what I posted? Is that the only take you got from it? The point of the article was written right there for you to read.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 10:00 amNo sure I understand...did St. Louis get a boatload of money?cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 8:35 am https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-f ... ue#image=2
This new mayors leadership should prove everything our FLP folks on this forum have been prognosticating. If you spend enough money you can solve all the problems that a city has to deal with. Good luck to you Ms Mayor, your gonna need it.
You linked a picture of house being rehabbed by the man cutting the lawn?
How is this a problem?
Or did St. Louis simply elect its first black mayor?
St. Louis has been long starved for money relative to its challenges.
Moving money around is unlikely, IMO, to sufficiently change the paradigm there. There's a reference to a half billion in pandemic relief...depending on how much of that is still available, there could be some real opportunity...same for the infrastructure bills coming. St. Louis has massive infrastructure challenges.
I think there's a growing consensus that reduced police funding is not actually the right answer, though serious reform is very important...but what is really needed is far more spending on all the social infrastructure needs.
Gotta be spent smart, but that's what's needed if we're really going to transform these cities.
Indeed, good luck.