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  • There are 4 constitutional amendments on Louisiana ballots Saturday. Here’s what they mean.

    After years of doing taxes the same way, Louisiana voters beginning Saturday are being asked to decide if the state should head in a different direction. Forty-three parishes, like Orleans, are choosi
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  • Despite ballot wording, French Quarter hotel rooms are exempt from this security tax

    A tax agreement signed Thursday with the French Quarter Management District marked the final step toward resuming enhanced police patrols in the Vieux Carré and seemingly ended a contentious process
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  • City Council members maintain legally dubious hotel exemption while reinstating French Quarter sales tax

    A special sales tax to fund supplemental police patrols in the French Quarter will be reinstated starting in October after expiring at the end of 2020. The tax was approved by voters in an April ballo
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  • French Quarter security tax delayed over demand for hotel exemption

    A quarter-cent sales tax in the French Quarter, approved by residents of the historic neighborhood earlier this year through a ballot measure, was meant to go into effect on July 1. But that date has
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  • How BGR’s Government Monitoring Work Supports Our Mission

    By Stephen Stuart Vice President and Research Director It’s not nearly as visible to citizens as our research reports and the events we present. But monitoring government entities in the greater New
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  • PolicyWatch: New Orleans Budget and Tax Updates

    OVERVIEW Welcome to the inaugural edition of PolicyWatch, a periodic newsletter that draws on BGR’s body of independent, nonpartisan research to address current public policy issues. This edition fo
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  • Monitoring

    An integral part of BGR’s work is government monitoring. BGR’s research team tracks more than 70 local and state government entities. Through our regular monitoring, we stay abreast of pol
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  • Becky Mowbray appointed new chief of BGR

    Former journalist and government watchdog Becky Mowbray will take the reins at the Bureau of Governmental Research later this month as the independent policy group’s new president and CEO. Mowbr
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  • Louisiana ballot measures would change tax structure, collections

    Voters in Louisiana will go to the polls on Nov. 13 to decide on constitutional amendments that would change the way taxes are structured and collected in the state and how the state budget is managed
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  • BGR Endorses Ballot Propositions That Could Generate Millions For Infrastructure

    In a report released Tuesday, the non-partisan Bureau for Governmental Research (BGR) has endorsed three ballot propositions that would collectively generate millions of dollars in both annual and one
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