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  • Search results for: orleans blight

16 Search Results Found For: "orleans blight"

  • New Orleans mayor threatens layoffs if tax changes fail

    NEW ORLEANS — Facing significant opposition to her proposed cut to public libraries and to separate tax increases for infrastructure and economic development, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Friday that
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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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  • Despite city law, New Orleans’ hasn’t had public contract database since 2019 cyber attack

    Despite a local law requiring the city of New Orleans to post all of its contracts on its website, the city’s public facing contract database hasn’t worked since December 2019, when the local gove
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  • Questions for a New Mayor: New Orleans 2010 Election

    Overview With the primary on the way, BGR submitted questions to all mayoral candidates on topics in four areas: the city’s budget, city services, infrastructure and blight. Four candidates – Rob
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  • Open Letters: Future of N.O.’s Blight Programs

    Overview BGR has been conducting extensive research on blighted property issues and blight remediation programs in New Orleans and is preparing a study for future publication. Drawing on that research
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  • Council advances controversial library board appointment, announces ballot initiative to renew library tax

    The New Orleans City Council Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday voted to advance the nomination of Dana Henry to the New Orleans Public Library Board of Directors, despite significant oppositi
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  • City accused of misleading the public in campaign for property tax proposal

    In recent weeks, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has ramped up her campaign to convince voters to approve a plan to reallocate millions of dollars in property taxes, which will appear as three separ
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  • Former judge and retired postal worker vie for Jefferson Parish Council District 1 seat

    The race to replace Ricky Templet in the Jefferson Parish Council’s District 1 seat is between two candidates who would be new to parish government, though only one could be considered a politic
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  • Cantrell eyes Municipal Auditorium as the new City Hall, but what about rest of Armstrong Park?

    NEW ORLEANS —On Tuesday, Mayor LaToya Cantrell floated the idea of turning the blighted Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park into the new City Hall. Cantrell made the off-the-cuff comment at a Bur
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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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