I’ll chime in.
In Jackson we have had the state literally send Federal money earmarked for Jackson back to the federal government calling it “excess spending”. It doesnt get any more clear and if that can’t be acknowledged then the rest of the discussion is not worth having.
When you have states trying to sabotage their own cities for political talking points, that can not be ignored.
Unfortunately, I can not state that Latoya is the worst mayor in the history of NOLA because the city has quite a top 5 list of worst administrations. I can wholeheartedly say that she is terrible.
Just about the entire south is seeing this problem. In Florida it is Miami, in Texas it is Houston, in Mississippi it is Jackson, in TN it is Memphis, in Missouri it is St. Louis, in Kentucky it is Louisville, in Alabama it is Montgomery, in Arkansas it is Little Rock, in Georgia it is Atlanta.
States sabotaging cities for political gain is now part of the platform just so they can point and say, “see how bad they are doing”. Sadly, most of these local leaders do not need any help.
When you undercut education and foster poverty for a generation it creates the perfect recipe for everything we are seeing.
I was asked earlier about the differences in San Fransisco and what I am seeing different. Jackson had a similar number of murders last year as San Fransisco despite a population difference of 2000%. In San Fransisco the homeless dominate. In Jackson we don’t have many homeless but a crazy percentage of our population live in homes or apartments that are so far below licing standards that they are essentially homeless. The differences are so drastic that I really don’t understand how someone can make the comparison with a straight face. In San Fransisco there isnt a collapse of drinking water, sewer systems, law enforcement and fire departments. Its like comparing Dubai to Syria.
If someone can please enlighten me to the golden era of New Orleans from politics to crime I’m all ears. The city has been overrun by pirates since the day it was founded, those pirates havent left, they have only changed their wardrobe. The state has always despised the city and until that changes I dont expect the city to change. Money is the answer and until local and state governance can get on the same page it wont improve. At some point the voters have to take a good long look in the mirror but they arent educated to earn enough money to buy a mirror.