Couple years there there were republicans fighting for all efforts to do that were fought by the democrats unfortunately to fix fannie and freddie, should bush have fought harder for it . Absolutely. Did the democrats stop it in the senate . Yes, they did we need reform. The first thing obama did when he came in was make that spending in iraq and afghanistan in the base line of the budget to make it infinitely into the future. We took that back and stopped that abuse with the budget deal going into 2011, the republicans in the house and senate. We dramatically have different parties, the Republican Party both willing to reform entitlements and paul ryan we talked about earlier has four times put forward a budget that reforms entitlements and keeps the country from going bankrupt. Obama and the government put no reform of entitlements on the table, period and added another unreformed entitlement and falls apart and have to tack it together again, obamacare. Its not fair now and was in p
The 2003 Northside Community Plan aimed to reduce crime, provide economic growth and build a grocery store
Some changes have been made, while others are still in progress, but some say those changes brought negative effects
The Northside has seen progress, but they have also seen gentrification of their Black community
Some believe a new plan is needed to address the current issues the Northside faces now
In the early 2000s, Wilmington’s Northside had a vision.
At the time, the Northside saw more than one-third of families from its neighborhoods living in poverty.
Northside is described as including the area from the Cape Fear River to the MLK Parkway, Smith Creek around Love Grove, then down to 11th Street (not to include Oakdale Cemetery), back up to 17th Street, down Grace Street until it becomes Walnut Street, down to Third Street and over to Red Cross Street.