Deflection. You are touting that Jones has overseen an increase in affluence/wealth despite a decline in low-income population. Isn't that textbook gentrification? If Cara Spencer were promoting the same dynamics do you think it would be received as a positive?Auggie wrote: ↑Mar 30, 2025Jive thinks the future of the city is like sports or something. I'm team Jones, I guess they're team Spencer according to them.
Meanwhile in real life, I'm team "What's best for St. Louis" and I'll always be on that team.
It's like this whole thing is a joke to them.
I think you see this as "us vs them" when I see it as "What's best for St. Louis?"jivecitystl wrote: ↑Mar 31, 2025Deflection. You are touting that Jones has overseen an increase in affluence/wealth despite a decline in total population. Isn't that textbook gentrification? If Cara Spencer were promoting the same dynamics do you think it would be received as a positive?Auggie wrote: ↑Mar 30, 2025Jive thinks the future of the city is like sports or something. I'm team Jones, I guess they're team Spencer according to them.
Meanwhile in real life, I'm team "What's best for St. Louis" and I'll always be on that team.
It's like this whole thing is a joke to them.
Not even sure what you're talking about, I didn't express my views on that one way or the other. I just pointed out that you are trumpeting textbook gentrification as a good thing that has been occurring under Mayor Jones. Seems incongruous with some of the Jones campaign rhetoric painting Cara's base as pearl-clutchers and stoking fears that Cara will whitewash the city and sell it out to rich developers.Auggie wrote: ↑Mar 31, 2025I think you see this as "us vs them" when I see it as "What's best for St. Louis?"jivecitystl wrote: ↑Mar 31, 2025Deflection. You are touting that Jones has overseen an increase in affluence/wealth despite a decline in total population. Isn't that textbook gentrification? If Cara Spencer were promoting the same dynamics do you think it would be received as a positive?Auggie wrote: ↑Mar 30, 2025Jive thinks the future of the city is like sports or something. I'm team Jones, I guess they're team Spencer according to them.
Meanwhile in real life, I'm team "What's best for St. Louis" and I'll always be on that team.
It's like this whole thing is a joke to them.
Wealthy people moving into the city is objectively a good thing. That's why Cara Spencer and the Post-Dispatch are absolutely not going to mention it. Wouldn't be surprised if it gets mentioned by both later this year. And btw, this isn't even a Jones thing. This has been happening for years, it's just continued under Jones.
Past your bedtime Auggie lolAuggie wrote: ↑Mar 31, 2025Similar to the accusations of me calling people racist, I have also not said Spencer "wants to gentrify the city". Just not something I've said ever. Actually only Jive has said that.
Jive is also now making the case that middle and upper income people moving into the city is not a good thing. Jive is making the case that renovating and rebuilding homes and businesses is also not a good thing.
Jive has lost the plot for real.
Baringer and Steve Butz were the two Missouri House Democrats who voted in favor of the state takeover bill in the Missouri House in March 2023.Baltimore Jack wrote: ↑Mar 29, 2025Baringer voting for state takeover of SLMPD is a deal breaker for me. Even though her replacement in the legislature would likely be better if she were to move into the Comptroller post.
A good reminder on the stadium. As the Baringer as a rubber stamp for corporate swindlers, that describes her aldermanic voting record to a tee. I would expect nothing different as comptroller, and her public statements suggest she has no vision for the office or its important role on E&A.SB in BH wrote: ↑Apr 04, 2025^you can add her reliable opposition to public funding of sports venues to the evidence for her wise fiscal prudence. Without her opposition, its quite possible we'd have an NFL stadium albatross hanging over our heads for the next 50 years and no MLS team (or a much worse finance package for the stadium).
I'll grant that Darlene's probably phoning it in on the day-to-day operations of her office, but I'm concerned Barringer will be an automatic rubber stamp on whatever our corporate overlords want from City taxpayers. I'm willing to accept the former to prevent the latter.
Wow, you mean to tell me that the of the City departments most highlighted for providing a poor quality of services to City residents are, in fact, according to the City's own tracking, providing an abysmal quality of service to City residents? And this data has been only reluctantly released to comply with a Sunshine request despite this supposedly being the most open and transparent mayoral administration in history? Say it ain't so, Tishuara Jones!... Two years later, as Jones faces a tough reelection bid, that internal data system remains hidden from public view despite similar programs operating openly on public dashboards in dozens of other U.S. cities.
The administration’s reluctance to publish the data stems from three concerns: incomplete data collection, ongoing staff training on how to categorize and report service work and fears of political backlash as election pressures mount.
But unlike Kansas City, Baltimore, Louisville and more than 20 other municipalities across North America with similar programs, St. Louis officials have declined to make their performance dashboard public, despite repeatedly promoting it in speeches.
... In the Forestry Division, the city has met most of its goals. In the only other two city departments to adapt to LouStat’s metrics and measurements, the Streets Department and Building Division reports show widespread failure to meet the administration's own service goals, with some citizen requests languishing for more than two years.
... Internal documents show a city struggling to meet basic service benchmarks. The Streets Department reported 8,576 open pothole service requests in January 2025, more than double its target of 3,775. The department was taking nearly 39 days on average to address illegal dumping — almost 13 times longer than its three-day goal.
In the Building Division, more than a third of service requests were overdue as of January, far exceeding the administration's 10% target. The division also reported significant disparities in response times across different city wards.
Ebsy wrote: ↑Apr 08, 2025It is disappointing to say the least that Jones and her supporters have been out there this last week race hustling like we are back the 1990s rather than losing with any sort of dignity.
