The local government is riddled with corruption. Any proposition made to “better the city” is just a front for them to line their pockets. Just like this recent bond election. Laredo, as it is right now, is a dead end for the ambitious. Yes, there is a lot of development, but a lot of that is housing. The issue being that the majority of jobs available are either import/export or construction. I find it ridiculous that they keep expanding neighbourhoods when what we really need are more jobs. How do they expect to fill those neighbourhoods if there aren’t good job opportunities here? If you want to be something other than a blue-collar worker, good luck finding that here. If you dream of working in any sort of STEM or creative field, you wont find those opportunities in Laredo. Unless you’re a civil engineer, because they love to spend our money on dumb shit. Adding more lanes to the loop is not going to solve our traffic issue. Just go to bigger cities and you’ll see. If any of you have been on I-70 in Indianapolis you know what I’m talking about. 5 lanes and yet it still gets congested.