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  • Search results for: orleans "planning"

63 Search Results Found For: "orleans "planning""

  • New Orleans City Planning Commission approves affordable housing plan minus key element

    The New Orleans City Planning Commission has recommended dropping the core element of a plan aimed at increasing the amount of affordable housing in the city, balking at a plan that would allow the ci
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  • Poco Sloss awarded The Times-Picayune Loving Cup: “He represents the best of New Orleans and her citizenry”

    As far as New Orleans is concerned, the stock market’s loss is the city’s gain. Here’s why. When Poco Sloss returned home with a degree from Georgia Tech, he needed a job, so he decided to try h
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  • Should New Orleans renew French Quarter sales tax? Sidney Torres says yes; think tank says no

    A nonpartisan think tank recommends French Quarter voters not renew a roughly quarter-cent sales tax in the Vieux Carré on Saturday, citing lack of agreement over how the money should be spent. But a
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  • How New Orleans could reconfigure taxes if plan is passed: See propositions, funding changes, more

    New Orleans voters will be asked to reconfigure five soon-to-expire taxes into four new ones on the Dec. 5 ballot, leaving the overall tax rate the same but altering how much funding various city serv
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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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  • ‘The Second Battle of New Orleans’ republished for 50th anniversary of end to Riverfront Expressway fight

    If you’re really lucky, at least once in your life you cross paths with someone truly extraordinary. I was very blessed to spend time with Bill Borah during his last years. He was an exceptionally i
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  • Controversial New Orleans convention center hotel bill gets OK; a look at what’s next

    The controversial 1,200-room hotel proposed for the upriver end of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center passed a major milestone on Friday, when a hard-fought legislative bill laying out the terms
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  • Our Views: Non-transparent Topgolf deal lands New Orleans Convention Center in PR sand trap

    The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, a major player in the New Orleans tourism industry, is sitting on some $200 million in tax money — funds generated for a center expansion that was scrapped a
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  • It’s time to change how New Orleans’ tax dollars are spent, distributed, nonpartisan group says

    The Bureau of Governmental Research is once again calling for changes in the way taxes are distributed in New Orleans, issuing a new report just as Mayor LaToya Cantrell and representatives of the tou
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  • It takes a millage: New Orleans voters will decide on a redistribution of parks and rec funds

    The sole item on the May 4 ballot in New Orleans is a citywide referendum often referred to as “Parks and Rec.” The ballot proposition could just as easily be cast as a vote on the future of New O
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