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272 Search Results Found For: "orleans mayor"

  • 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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  • LaToya Cantrell’s first year as New Orleans mayor: See breakdown of her wins and losses

    For generations, the mayor of New Orleans was supposed to be a native, a smooth political operator and, it almost goes without saying, a man. In her history-making 2017 campaign, Mayor LaToya Cantrell
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  • New Orleans Mayor Considers Moving City Hall To Armstrong Park

    A task force is examining if the shuttered Municipal Auditorium could be the new home for city government. After Hurricane Katrina, $40 million was ultimately set aside by the Federal Emergency Manage
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  • New Orleans mayoral candidates tout plans for Sewerage & Water Board, NOPD at forum

    Six leading New Orleans mayoral candidates vowed this week to keep the troubled Sewerage & Water Board under city management, but said they would appoint expert overseers or modernize the agency s
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  • BGR’s New Orleans mayoral candidate survey covers hot topics

    Everybody is looking for answers from the crowded field of candidates for the New Orleans mayoral race. The nonprofit watchdog Bureau for Governmental Research took its crack at it, calling on each of
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  • What kind of ‘change’ agendas might New Orleans mayoral candidates tout?

    In HBO’s biting political satire “Veep,” the show’s long-suffering vice president ran to replace the unnamed and never-seen president under an awkward slogan: “Continuity
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  • Elderly services tax fails in New Orleans, with Mayor Cantrell leading opposition

    New Orleans voters rejected a new property tax Saturday (March 30) to support elderly services, money the Council on Aging intended to use to shorten waitlists for its Meals on Wheels and housekeeping
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  • Tax for New Orleans elderly runs into Mayor Cantrell’s infrastructure needs

    A property tax proposal on Saturday’s (March 30) ballot to support elderly services in New Orleans has given Mayor LaToya Cantrell a platform to call for more accountability and transparency from ag
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  • Jeff Sadow: Mayor Cantrell’s idea to fund New Orleans S&WB should be no brainer for Legislature

    Let New Orleans drown in water and red ink or stop giving special interests money to finance their real-life Monopoly game? It should be a no-brainer for Louisiana lawmakers. Earlier this month, Mayor
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  • Our Views: Mayor Cantrell needs to grab at more than tourism dollars to solve New Orleans’ drainage woes

    New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell built her political career by being a disruptor, and she won election with 60 percent of the vote, so clearly that’s a quality her constituents wanted in their new
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