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  • Search results for: orleans mayor

310 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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  • Voters give New Orleans City Council power to approve mayoral appointees

    New Orleans voters on Tuesday approved an amendment to New Orleans’ home rule charter to require the mayor to get approval from the City Council before hiring certain department heads, such as the s
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  • New Orleans City Council gains power to approve mayoral appointees

    New Orleans voters on Tuesday night approved a significant change to how City Hall officials are appointed, setting up a new system that empowers the City Council to confirm or deny the mayor’s
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  • Should New Orleans City Council have a say over whom the mayor hires? It’s up to voters.

    New Orleans voters will determine Nov. 8 whether to alter the balance of power at City Hall by giving the City Council authority to approve or reject mayor-appointed department heads. The proposed cha
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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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