^Republicans have expressed interest in passing an infrastructure bill before. Trump wanted to but never made it happen. You earmark enough for roads and bridges in Alaska, Maine, WV, Utah, etc.... and an infrastructure bill might pass.
And the House has lifted its ban on earmarks--might be a little pork barrel action is just what's needed to grease the rails on the infrastructure train and get it out of the station. The situation appears fluid in the Senate, but as they say, money talks and bullsh*t walks...wabash wrote: ↑Mar 24, 2021^Republicans have expressed interest in passing an infrastructure bill before. Trump wanted to but never made it happen. You earmark enough for roads and bridges in Alaska, Maine, WV, Utah, etc.... and an infrastructure bill might pass.
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Blunt better bring home some bacon in his last year and a half. Hawley is worthless. Although Cori Bush is responsible for the City getting $500M, she pushed for the city to be counted as both the city and a county.
Re Cori Bush--is that why we're getting so much compared to KC for example? Cara Spencer mentioned on the debate last night that it was because we're so damn poor (my words, not hers), but it also makes some sense that we'd get both city and county-related money since we technically are both. Has anyone seen a formula or other rationale for how the funds were calculated? Just curious. Thanks.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Mar 24, 2021Blunt better bring home some bacon in his last year and a half. Hawley is worthless. Although Cori Bush is responsible for the City getting $500M, she pushed for the city to be counted as both the city and a county.
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I dont think we are any more poor then cleveland or Indy or other peer cities, most of the extra money is bc we are double dippingSB in BH wrote: ↑Mar 24, 2021Re Cori Bush--is that why we're getting so much compared to KC for example? Cara Spencer mentioned on the debate last night that it was because we're so damn poor (my words, not hers), but it also makes some sense that we'd get both city and county-related money since we technically are both. Has anyone seen a formula or other rationale for how the funds were calculated? Just curious. Thanks.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Mar 24, 2021Blunt better bring home some bacon in his last year and a half. Hawley is worthless. Although Cori Bush is responsible for the City getting $500M, she pushed for the city to be counted as both the city and a county.
I think the formula had something to do with how many community block grants or something in that arena a city gets.SB in BH wrote: ↑Mar 24, 2021Re Cori Bush--is that why we're getting so much compared to KC for example? Cara Spencer mentioned on the debate last night that it was because we're so damn poor (my words, not hers), but it also makes some sense that we'd get both city and county-related money since we technically are both. Has anyone seen a formula or other rationale for how the funds were calculated? Just curious. Thanks.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Mar 24, 2021Blunt better bring home some bacon in his last year and a half. Hawley is worthless. Although Cori Bush is responsible for the City getting $500M, she pushed for the city to be counted as both the city and a county.
The vast majority of Kansas City is low density suburbs...even in the official city limits (which is also the case for nearly all of our closest peers). Their urban core has plenty of sh*t too but all those mostly stable suburbs offset their urban issues (like high crime and poverty rates, depopulation and building age)...hence less money.
The extra money the city got because it’s technically a county was only about $60 million-ish...the vast majority of what the city received was allocated due to those other parameters...I think about $450 million or so came from that.
Edit: This isn’t exactly a detailed explanation...but might provide a little clarity:
https://fox2now.com/news/the-reasons-wh ... -stimulus/The federal relief bill signed by President Joe Biden is expected to result in around a half-billion dollars being sent to St. Louis. Mayor Lyda Krewson shared the reason why the city is getting so much compared to other area towns. She said that congress developed a formula to allocate the money based on poverty, the age of buildings, and the growth-gap. St. Louis ranks very high in all of those areas.
Edit 2: Here’s a bit more from the BJ, though this article was published before the bill was passed so the numbers are bit different.
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... inner.htmlSt. Louis emerges as the biggest municipal winner because the bill used a formula based not on population, but Community Development Block Grant allocations. That takes into account unemployment levels, age of housing and other metrics.
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Is age of housing a common metric for federal funding formulas?
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Sorry if I missed it, but the Second Gentleman, Doug EMHOFF, was in town meeting with Bob Clark at the Clayco offices to discuss the stimulus monies.
I really hope STLs best planners/leaders are ready to write grants and WIN.
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Uncle Joe is on a clear path to be the most influential president since FDR. He’s going to single handily nail the trickle down economics coffin
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If he's able to actually pass this stuff, it'll be hard to argue with that. He'll have to reshape DC just to make this stuff happen, e.g. eliminating the filibuster or bringing back earmarks.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Mar 31, 2021Uncle Joe is on a clear path to be the most influential president since FDR. He’s going to single handily nail the trickle down economics coffin
Fortunately for Joe earmarks are already on their way back with bipartisan support.MarkHaversham wrote: ↑Mar 31, 2021If he's able to actually pass this stuff, it'll be hard to argue with that. He'll have to reshape DC just to make this stuff happen, e.g. eliminating the filibuster or bringing back earmarks.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Mar 31, 2021Uncle Joe is on a clear path to be the most influential president since FDR. He’s going to single handily nail the trickle down economics coffin
Senate Parliamentarian ruled that Dems could use budget reconciliation for one or two more pieces of legislation this year so an avenue opened for simple majority on Infrastructure/Jobs bill. However, I think a few Democratic Senators are hinting at some major changes to Biden's plan for it to be doable in their eyes. Of course, my two cents in go bigger on brick & mortar, in the ground, internet infrastructure and pull back on some of the other items. In other words; states, cities and counties got a big plug of cash with Covid aid and can apply some of that aid to job force training, etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/us/p ... cture.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/politics ... index.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/0 ... lan-479058
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/us/p ... cture.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/politics ... index.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/0 ... lan-479058
Robin Carnahan.gone corporate wrote: ↑Apr 06, 2021STL Biz Journal: Former MO Sec State Jean Carnahan is POTUS' nominee to run GSA
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wabash wrote: ↑Apr 07, 2021Robin Carnahan.gone corporate wrote: ↑Apr 06, 2021STL Biz Journal: Former MO Sec State Jean Carnahan is POTUS' nominee to run GSA
Ha! I get those two confused too. Robyn bought my cousin's house in Dogtown when they moved to New Jersey in the late 90s. You think that would help me keep them straight.
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^That's a nice piece of news. I hope she does well at GSA.
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My bad. Thanks for catching that, Wabash. Cheers to her nomination with hopes STL can get some good things from it.wabash wrote: ↑Apr 07, 2021Robin Carnahan.gone corporate wrote: ↑Apr 06, 2021STL Biz Journal: Former MO Sec State Jean Carnahan is POTUS' nominee to run GSA
Former Sen. Jean Carnahan is probably a little old for the job, given that she's almost 90.gone corporate wrote: ↑Apr 07, 2021My bad. Thanks for catching that, Wabash. Cheers to her nomination with hopes STL can get some good things from it.wabash wrote: ↑Apr 07, 2021Robin Carnahan.gone corporate wrote: ↑Apr 06, 2021STL Biz Journal: Former MO Sec State Jean Carnahan is POTUS' nominee to run GSA
Stltoday - Missouri gets a C-minus in White House report on states’ infrastructure needs
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/sta ... 3bedf.html
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/sta ... 3bedf.html
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Apparently some Republican house members started a white supremacist caucus and it’s so bad that even gop house leader Kevin McCarthy had to call it out
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To be completely fair, our nativist dog-whistles significantly predate European fascism. The "Know Nothings" are a pretty good early example. Heck, before the Civil Rights movement most nativist politicians in the US blew their whistles at more ordinarily audible ranges. Nothing secret about it.
The funny thing is that many of those shouting about Anglo-Saxon stuff are most likely of Scots-Irish heritage hence not Anglo-Saxon
For the purposes of Marjorie Taylor-MAGA and Paul Gosar's new Caukkkus, "Anglo-Saxon" is a not very subtle dogwhistle for "white".kipfilet wrote: ↑Apr 17, 2021The funny thing is that many of those shouting about Anglo-Saxon stuff are most likely of Scots-Irish heritage hence not Anglo-Saxon