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Article: WHAT TO DO ABOUT BATON ROUGE?
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- New Orleans Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. Mar 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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WE DETECT A CERTAIN smugness about Baton Rouge toward New Orleans these days. The attitude began during the months after Katrina when the capitol city, to which many New Orleanians fled, briefiy had a larger population than New Orleans. It continues today as we hear about the emerging Interstate 10/Interstate 12 Corridor and an industrial boom there that will shame us down here below sea level. This talk is not just from Baton Rouge but also from some worried New Orleanians. They have seen the future and fear it is 90 miles up the highway.
Certainly Baton Rouge does have much going for it. The city is pleasant with a re-emerging downtown anchored by the splendid Shaw Center for the Arts. ...