Advocate backs the bond issue
Our Views: Let us lead, not follow
Nov. 1, 2009
Despite the national recession, Baton Rouge is a city with plenty going for it.
Baton Rouge’s economy is relatively healthy. Its capacity to support more than $900 million in infrastructure projects is unusual in the nation; interest rates are at historic lows and construction costs are reasonable; while many have suffered here from the recession, the opportunity for growth beckons just beyond today’s economic shallows.
As a community, do we choose to go forward?
That, we believe, is the critical issue in the Nov. 14 election on Mayor-President Kip Holden’s tax proposition to pay for a parishwide program of construction. We support it.