Thanks for outlining that out. I knew it wasn't going to pass, but it's good to have a reason to go with it. I just hope they don't economy develop(is that the saying?) it down and just shelve it for ten years until they can do it right.
On an off note, you can always tell a city's population and average income by the kinds of hotels and the quality of the stores in the malls.

I have not heard about any hotel being built the old University Shopping Center; that would be interesting...that land is still vacant(been a while since drove past it)Something sure should have been built there now/prime location

A 6-story/121-room Staybridge Suites at Southgate Towers on Nicholson(just south of Tiger Stadium) recently opened before LSU football season took a pic...See POST #221 above

Good to have you back posting with us Tom

The greatest cities are the ones that take the biggest risks with public money.

Wasn't a major hotel supposed to be built where the University Shopping Center once stood? I'd thought it was supposed to go up somewhere around where the old theater used to be. I'm surprised that a major hotel hasn't been built immediately next to the LSU campus. BTW, hello again, I know it's been ages. I'm back again.

As for exxon, that doesnt even count, they conduct research funded my investors, to make money for investors, a completely different category.

Private (some non profit) Research Institutions- Evergreen, CATO, Carnegie, Tulane, Celgene, Pennington, Exxon Chem. Most publicly funded research institutes typically depend on private endowments.

Saying that ALIVE is a research institution is a huge stretch. What research will be going on there (and they can't claim the environmental/coastal studies already existing at LSU)? Will they be hiring people who will be doing research?

Ha ha...That might be a strong possibility if I was still single...but got a family with a 2 1/2 year-old and another on the way....like my yard with basketball goal too much

I tried to give your post cajun, a "positive vote." However, it told me i had reached my quota for the day, which i find interesting, since ive never voted before, and just noticed the new feature today, lol.

I agree with everything you say. But I would be scared to see I10 widened from the split to the bridge, even though its needed. Like you've mentioned earlier, i would hate to see the damage it would to the perkins overpass area. I think that straightening out that sharp curve and bringing the "merging" lane from the bridge all the way to the lakes though would help a lot. and be minimally invasive to the area.

Can you make your case cajun?

If a firestation needs to be built in the south but the north won't vote for it, but they need a police station, i understand grouping things, but I have my limits on what I'm willing to vote for when grouped.. This alive project should be its own vote.. If we need parish wide drainage or a new prision then fine, group that together.. But if one thing is a huge chunk of the total cost then it should be split up.. My feeling is that this bond will fail by about 65% against.. If they took alive out, i think the alive part would fail, but the other improvements would pass.. The sad thing is, I voted in favor for this a year ago.. I've just had a change of heart.

Wow dude! That's crazy!! The weather sure has been freakish...Driest=June...Wettest= October...Latest Named Storm West of Florida=November...not to mention last years Most Snow in December just three months after 2 Big-Time hurricanes...

Check this out...You probably heard about this Alligator Story in Bossier City?? This was e-mailed to me the other day....

This is my neighborhood! mb
(Bossier City Subdivision just off Jimmie Davis Bridge ) ( Plantation Trace)
Col. Grace and crew:
Well, at lunch time today, I drove to daycare to pick up my three year old son. I returned home, parked the car, and was getting my son out of his car seat, when something caught my eye. I looked down, and 3 feet away from me was this 9 foot gator in my yard next to my house door. I threw my son back in the car, drove around to the other side of my house, and called 911.



Several police cars and animal control showed up. After about 1 hour, the gator guy arrived and shot the gator. We had a small crowd of city personnel and neighbors. The gator was male and measured 8 feet, 11 inches. They said his belly was full from a recent large meal.... Could have been me or my son! Lesson: All this rain is causing gators to travel.. I live in a nice subdivision in town - not out in the country. So, all I can say is watch out! Feel free to send this email and photo out to Wing Personnel as a safety reminder

Not that it matters...I'm voting yes.

I wouldn't call Alive an amusement park any more than I'd call an Aquarium or Museum an amusement park. The only "amusement" here is that there's going to be a massive amphitheater, which is a low maintenance venue that this town desperately needs.

That being said this controversy combined with the late police force scandal should light a fire under Holden's admin. I think it's a huge risk to group ALIVE with the rest of the proposal, and we are all going to suffer when it fails- and I'm going to blame him when it happens. And this is from a former supporter of the administration.

Holden was warned over and over again that the bond will fail if not split up, and he still wants to throw in a project that isn't really a "need" item, supported by taxes paid by people who are facing a serious recession and record unemployment...all this at the start of what is probably going to be a very depressing holiday season for millions.

So I'm voting yes, but very reluctantly.



You sure about that, Buckett?

I know you are smarter than that.

The private sector doesn't build research institutions because they aren't lucrative.