Though he’s only a few weeks into the job, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport’s new boss is working in familiar territory. “I’m a native New Orleanian,” A
Read Part 1: Fulfilling the mission. The OIG faced a series of challenges beginning in 2015. While the Office remained highly productive and continued to release credible and well-respected reports, t
Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s top public works aides offered a roadmap Tuesday for the hundreds of millions of dollars they plan to spend on streets, drainage, parks and other infrastructure in coming yea
Four years after calling for a comprehensive review of New Orleans’ tangle of tax dedications, the watchdog Bureau of Governmental Research has a new report that points out officials have done littl
An expert panel on tourism brought together a host of important industries and ideas Tuesday morning in downtown New Orleans. The forum, hosted at The New Orleans Advocate, delved into several subject
Kevin Dolliole, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport’s new Director of Aviation, spoke at a BGR Breakfast Briefing sponsored by IBERIABANK. Mr. Dolliole discussed the continued growth o
Overview New Orleans International Airport: Governance, Regional Cooperation and Airport Expansion analyzes the airport’s conditions limiting its physical expansion and approaches to regional co
By Amy L. Glovinsky President & CEO Samuel Zemurray Chair in Research Leadership At the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR), we work to understand how government can perform better. And we push
New Orleans City Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer is calling for an end to a longtime arrangement that diverts about half of the Regional Transit Authority’s hotel tax revenues to the tourism in
In her push to find money to improve New Orleans’ decrepit infrastructure, Mayor LaToya Cantrell is targeting a share of the $160 million in sales and hotel taxes that are collected each year to pro
