INFRASTRUCTURE
New Orleans levee board members quit as Jeff Landry’s adviser pursues controversial changes
By Alex Lubben
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
March 18, 2025
Three members of a board overseeing New Orleans area flood protection have resigned in protest over controversial changes being...Jeff Landry’s adviser wants to upend key post-Katrina reform at New Orleans flood agencies
By Alex Lubben
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
March 6, 2025
A top adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry is leading a push to upend a key post-Katrina reform at the...
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,...Gov. Jeff Landry’s adviser is reshaping New Orleans levee authority. ‘Look at Elon Musk’
By Alex Lubben
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
January 16, 2025
Behind the scenes, an unelected adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry is reshaping the regional levee authority that helps protect...
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...Watch Replay of Breakfast Briefing: Sewerage and Water Board Update
September 10, 2024
Today, the Bureau of Governmental Research hosted its fourth and final Breakfast Briefing of the year. Our speaker was...
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...
What has been the impact of the 2019 “Fair Share” deal?
By Newell Normand
Source: WWL Radio
September 6, 2024
This article is no longer available online. Please review BGR’s report here: https://www.bgr.org/report-index/bgr-analyzes-impact-of-fair-share-deal-for-new-orleans-infrastructure/