If he moves close to Main Street, he will have access to a safe, walkable commercial street with night life that slays almost every city district trying to be the same. I write this as someone who will always live in the city as long as I remain in St. Louis, and as someone who has researched the regime of racialized capitalism that devastated the city in the twentieth century. So it's not completely fair. However, as someone who loves the kind of urbanism where people are constantly mixing across social divisions, I absolutely love Main Street in St. Charles. The suburbs are now able to teach the city a few things.framer wrote: ↑Mar 15, 2024And he's moving to St. Charles.
I too struggle to find a lesson worth learning. Certainly not ones the city hasn't already learned at some level. Sure the city still makes questionable decisions but they are usually based aroundSB in BH wrote: ↑Mar 18, 2024Please elaborate. What lessons should the City learn from St. Charles, or Webster or Kirkwood or any other local suburb with a central business/nightlife district?
"Round up and dump all the homeless in the City" comes to mind. "No low-income housing development" is another.
Definitely on board for new blood on donnybrook. They are all way too cynical about what St. louis can be. Well earned cynicism, sure, but the past is a guidebook not a rulebook.SB in BH wrote: ↑Mar 18, 2024Sorry to derail this thread. To bring it back on topic, let me say that Ray Hartmann is a total doofus who did one good thing (found the RFT) 40 years ago and has been coasting off of that ever since. Oh please oh please, KETC, get someone on Donnybrook that isn't a status quo-loving boomer.
Do you even understand what you are saying? You are saying that if "white people" leave an area it will become a place that is no longer a viable place to live? Do you even understand what you are saying? OmgSB in BH wrote: ↑Mar 18, 2024I was just being smartass but thanks for your thoughtful reply, with which I wholly agree. Assuming long-term migration patterns continue, I expect the white flight will decimate St. Charles just as it did North County in the last 30 years and North City the 30 years before that.
I don’t know if this is even worth engaging with. But yes. When the people who have all the economic power leave the area and all that’s left is a disenfranchised population, things go south pretty quickly.leeharveyawesome wrote:Do you even understand what you are saying? You are saying that if "white people" leave an area it will become a place that is no longer a viable place to live? Do you even understand what you are saying? OmgSB in BH wrote: ↑Mar 18, 2024I was just being smartass but thanks for your thoughtful reply, with which I wholly agree. Assuming long-term migration patterns continue, I expect the white flight will decimate St. Charles just as it did North County in the last 30 years and North City the 30 years before that.
There is a good argument to be made the in state undergraduate college tuition should be free at any public university.TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote: ↑Mar 20, 2024I would love it if someone would revive Dick Gephardt's "ROTC program for teachers" concept.
You go to college to be a teacher, government pays for it, you give 4 to 6 years of service depending on early child, k-5, 6-8, 9-12 and then you can "go career" or have time to retool your career. I thought it was brilliant then, and it is needed even more now.
