Drainage/Stormwater
New Report Examines Big Decision Ahead on Drainage Funding
January 8, 2026
The Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) released a new report today examining the Sewerage & Water Board’s effort to develop a...
BGR Examines Nov. 15 Ballot on City Bonds and City Attorney Charter Amendment
October 24, 2025
Today the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) released two reports providing independent, nonpartisan analysis to New Orleans voters on...
BGR Reviews Spending and Impacts of the 2019 New Orleans Bond Authorization
October 20, 2025
Today the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) released Beyond the Ballot: Analyzing Spending and Impacts of the 2019 New...
Gain Insights from BGR on Key Election Issues
July 8, 2025
Voters will head to the polls in October to decide New Orleans’ municipal elections, with the seats of the...
June 18 Breakfast Briefing Focuses on Post-Katrina Government Reforms and Future Citizen Engagement
June 18, 2025
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, BGR’s June 18 Breakfast Briefing discussed the disaster’s lasting impact on...
Quin Hillyer: Back home in Louisiana, where personalities and politics are bigger than life
By Quin Hillyer
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
February 1, 2025
Early 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote, “You can’t go home again.” Dorothy Gale, in “The Wizard of Oz,” though,...New Orleans secures funding for water treatment, drainage infrastructure
By Nolan Mckendry
Source: The Center Square via New Orleans CityBusiness
September 20, 2024
New Orleans’ drainage and power infrastructure has just secured funding for a much needed upgrade that will address the...Jefferson Parish drainage system haunted by 2017 tax decision
By David Hammer
Source: WWL-TV
September 17, 2024
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Amid a simmering political scandal, Jefferson Parish voters bit the bullet in December 2016 and...New Orleans is in a ‘good place’ before storm Francine, Sewerage & Water Board chief says
By Kaylee Poche
Source: Gambit
September 10, 2024
New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board Director Ghassan Korban said Tuesday the city’s pumping and drainage system is in...
Five years later, LaToya Cantrell’s ‘fair share’ deal delivering results, BGR says
By Ben Myers
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
September 7, 2024
Five years after New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell struck a historic deal to direct tourism-related taxes to city infrastructure...