#st tammany

[joyce-albert-realtor]

Negotiating a Short Sale

The main thing to know when negotiating a short sale is that it’s always going to be priced somewhat below market if for no other reason than the fact the seller is looking for a quick sale. I recently had a home listed for $280,000 when all comparable homes in the neighborhood were priced at $300-$320,000. Now granted, this house needed new flooring throughout, but that plus some fresh paint…

[matthewdwhite]

White Kitchen, Near Slidell, LA 8/21

[gascon-en-exil]

For the curious, these are the sorts of troll anons I've gotten since I made this post.

They could use some geography lessons. Lafourche Parish is indicated by the arrow here:

It's plainly outside of metro New Orleans - and as with the rest of Acadiana, I have spent very little time there. I think a lover and I took a day trip to Thibodaux and dined there around eight years ago? Call me an urban snob if you like (and many have), but I take little pleasure in going "down the bayou," as they say.

For those interested in Louisiana geography more generally, I should note that I and many others collapse the areas labeled here as North and Central Louisiana as well as most of the Florida parishes and the northernmost reaches of Acadiana into the single designation of northern Louisiana. The line between north and south isn't well-defined; some say it's at Alexandria, some (including me, usually) say it's at Baton Rouge, while the common Cajun joke is that it's the I-10 which is patently absurd since parts of New Orleans are north of the I-10...and anyway, the cultural division between northern (Anglo/American/Protestant) and southern (French/Latin/Catholic) Louisiana significantly predates the establishment of the US interstate highway system. Cajuns may not be very fond of the city, but no one would ever say that any part of Orleans Parish belongs to northern Louisiana.

[conandaily2022]

Alexa Wingerter biography: 13 things about Slidell, Louisiana teacher

Alexa Welborn Wingerter is an American teacher from Slidell, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. Here are 13 more things about her: Aside from Slidell, she has lived in other parts of Louisiana including Madisonville and Baton Rouge. She previously lived in Gulf Shores, Alabama, USA. She worked at Slidell High School as a teacher. From January 2010 to May 2010, she was a sales…

[stone-cold-groove]

The north shore.

[rabbitcruiser]

Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, a New York City political organization was incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society.  

[architectureforsuicides]

Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016) I-10 West Pearl River Bridge St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana (USA) Bridge over the West Pearl river Type: beam bridge.

[beardedmrbean]

A woman stabbed a convicted sex offender to death over the weekend as police said the felon attempted to rape her inside a Louisiana business in broad daylight.

The attack took place at a laundromat in Lacombe, a small, rural community about a 50-mile drive northeast of New Orleans.

The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office reported deputies responded about 3:30 p.m. Sunday to a laundromat off U.S. 190 for a report of unresponsive man with an apparent stab wound.

While en route to the scene, deputies were also dispatched to a call in reference to a woman claiming she stabbed a man who had attacked her while she was at the same laundromat.

Arriving officers found 40-year-old Nicholas Tranchant at the business suffering from a stab wound, officials said.

Tranchant was taken to a hospital where he died, according to a press release from the department.

Woman fatally stabs attempted rapist

A preliminary investigation into the death determined Tranchant − a convicted sex offender − entered the business armed with what officials described as a sharp weapon, and attempted to sexually assault the woman.

But she fought back.  

"The female was able to gain possession of the weapon, and used it to stab him before fleeing to safety," the department wrote in the release.

Sheriff praises woman for 'fighting back'

The woman was also taken to a hospital to be treated for injuries suffered in the attack, the department said.

“I want to compliment this brave woman on the courage and strength she showed in fighting back against her attacker and ask for prayers for her continued recovery,” Sheriff Randy Smith said.

Convicted sex offender Nicholas Tranchant's criminal history

Court records show Tranchant was convicted in Louisiana in July 2003 on a felony charge of indecent behavior with juveniles.

Then in May 2008, records show, he was convicted of felony attempted aggravated rape and aggravated burglary. 

Tranchant was released from jail on those charges on Dec, 21, 2023, the sheriff's office reported, and by law, required to register as a sex offender for life.

[nahimjustfeelingit-writes]

It’s the fact that it’s gonna be some filming in St. Tammany and that’s where my Vamp Erik fic is set 😂😂😂😂

Y’all better sign up as extras if y’all live in Louisiana!

[thenervebible]

[image description: Bobbie Lea Bennett is visible from the knees up in this black and white photograph. She sits in her wheelchair wearing a large trench coat with fur collar. Her right hand is resting on the padded foam of her wheelchair. Her left hand is curled near her face and left elbow rests on the wheelchair armrest. On both wrists she is wearing thin metal bracelets. She has round dark hair, pale skin, and she casually looks to her left with slightly open lips.]

Bobbie Lea Bennett was the first woman to obtain gender affirmation surgery in 1978. She was told the cost would be covered under Medicare’s Social Security disability benefits program, but it was not. So, she mobilized her community to force Medicare officials to consider gender affirmation surgeries as medical necessities. After driving to the office of Medicare director Thomag Tierney and refusing to leave, she received the reimbursement she was owed, although Medicare officials denied that the money was to cover gender-affirmation surgery. She founded the St. Tammany Organization for the Handicapped, and hosted "Barbie's Talk Show", a community television program to raise awareness of physical accessibility issues.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Gregory E. Williams

Despite increasing attacks on the community from well-funded, far-right organizations, the Northshore region of Louisiana held its first-ever Pride Parade this June. Around 500 people marched, and an impressive 2,000 people lined the parade route in the small parish outside New Orleans.

Although Governor Landry and his capitalist backers want to silence and divide LGBTQ+ people and other workers, the people of St. Tammany Parish stood together. They did not back down.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

The government should not be allowed to have any control over what books any library has on its shelves for any reason because I don’t see why winning a Moron Popularity Contest should mean you get to dictate what people better than you can read

[datarep]

Attempts to restrict access to books in St Tammany Parish, Louisiana

by u/kjmarino603

[conandaily2022]

Slidell, Louisiana's Corbin Debautte reported missing; Was his car found in Manitou Springs, Colorado?

Corbin Debautte, 23, of Slidell, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States is 5’9″ tall. He weighs about 129 pounds.

[winnix85]

Some more obscure facts about Lewis Nixon the shipbuilder and politics in 1920s

The other day, I found this piece in old newspapers that Lew’s grandmother was sitting in the box of the governor of New York Alfred E. Smith with Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt in a Democratic convention compaigning for the election of governor of New York. I thought this was strange. I knew that Lew’s grandfather was briefly the leader of Tammany Hall, but very briefly, since he was tasked with the mission of cleaning up the corrupt Tammany Hall and failed miserably.

Alfred E. Smith was probably one of the most competent governor of New York in history, and he stayed in office for nearly the entire 1920s. His political legacy included eight-hour day for women and children, minimum wages, to grant state pensions to widows with children so they don’t have to be sent to orphanage if the mother can’t find a job to support the family. (Alfred Smith himself was a child of a widow and he was dropped out of school at age 14 to work at a fish market)

It turns out that Lew’s grandfather was a long-time friend with Alfred E. Smith. They were allies since 1918. When Lewis Nixon died in 1940, Alfred E. Smith was his pallbearer.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was a protege of  Alfred E. Smith. He started compaigning for Smith since 1918 NY governor election, and worked for Smith’s every elections since then. However they turned against each other in fighting for the nomination of 1932 presidential election. Lewis Nixon the shipbuilder backed Alfred E. Smith everytime, and even supported him to run againt FDR in the 1936 presidential election.

1918, FDR first spoke for Alfred E. Smith (in the same news, Lew’s grandmother accepted the chairmanship of the Alfred E. Smith's Women's Campaign Committee of Greater New York. In the state of New York, women had the right to vote since 1918). In this election, Alfred E. Smith beat the incumbent governor Charles S. Whitman.

Actually, the incumbent governor Charles S. Whitman was the one who gave Doris away at her wedding with Stanhope in 1917.

In 1919, Lew’s grandfather was appointed by Alfred Smith as the superintendent of public works.

Shown below are a collection of newspaper clippings of Lewis Nixon throwing dinner parties for Alfred Smith:

By the way, in 1926 seven-yr old Lew participated in a model yacht competition. Grandpa browbeat him to name his boat “Mayor Walker”. That’s Jimmy Walker, another protege of Alfred E. Smith.

In 1928, Lewis Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jimmy Walker were all invited to the wedding of Alfred Smith’s daughter Katherine.

Therefore, I believe lil Lew did indeed know FDR, because FDR was not only a close colleague of his grandfather’s besty, but also a immediate neighbor, for the Roosevelts lived at the opposite door to the Nixons on East 65th St. 

FDR lived here and worked from here. This townhouse served as the compaign headquarter of Alfred E. Smith because FDR can’t walk to the actual headquarter on madison street.

Lew’s grandmother was still socializing with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1930 at least. 

However, the Nixons sided with Alfred E. Smith when he and FDR fought for the Democratic nomination for the 1932 presidential election. FDR won.

Lew’s grandfather was still promoting Alfred Smith in the 1936 election, but Smith didn’t run this time.

Smith vehemently critisized FDR’s new deal. However, he was one of the first American politicians who publicly warned against the evil of Hitler and Nazis in early 1933 (mind you, in 1933, Hitler was still a fasionable strong man in public view)

Smith came to Roosevelt’s defense as the president sought to amend the country’s neutrality laws (i.e. to sell arms to Britain and France after they declared war on Germany).

Alfred Smith said Roosevelt was “is so obviously right, so obviously on the side of common sense”.

In 1944, when both men had only months to live, an acquaintance asked Smith what he thought of Roosevelt, who was running for a fourth term as president of the United States, Smith said “he was the kindest man who ever lived, but don’t even get in his way”.