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The city should get a bigger chunk of hotel tax revenue, report says
By Michael Isaac Stein
Source: The Lens
January 30, 2019
A new report from the Bureau of Governmental Research released on Wednesday found a lack of accountability and transparency when it...New Orleans should regain ‘lost’ hotel tax money to fix drainage and roads, watchdog group says
By Beau Evans
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
January 30, 2019
A one-percent tax on New Orleans hotel sales should return to city coffers, as it was decades ago before that local...BGR Analyzes Orleans Parish Hotel Taxes
January 30, 2019
Today, BGR releases The Lost Penny: An Analysis of the Orleans Parish Hotel Tax Structure. The report explains the origin...
S&WB task force highlights agency’s financial crisis, calls for drainage fees
By Jeff Adelson
Source: The Advocate
January 28, 2019
The New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board is in desperate need of money for critical infrastructure projects and should...
Money should not be taken from tourism for infrastructure needs: Billy Nungesser
By Julia O'Donoghue
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
January 16, 2019
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser doesn’t think New Orleans hotel tax revenue should be redirected from state marketing, tourism and sports-related organizations...Cantrell’s quest for more infrastructure dollars centers on $160 million in tourism taxes
By Tyler Bridges
Source: The Advocate
January 12, 2019
In her push to find money to improve New Orleans’ decrepit infrastructure, Mayor LaToya Cantrell is targeting a share...‘Everything is on the table’ — including rate hikes — as S&WB looks to improve operations
By Jessica Williams
Source: The Advocate
January 10, 2019
Since his first few weeks on the job as executive director of the Sewerage & Water Board, Ghassan Korban...
Nell Nolan: BGR luncheon, The Studs Club, Churchill Society, N.O. Jazz Museum
By Nell Nolan
Source: The Advocate
January 5, 2019
Salutes of the Season Pleasurable Business Just around midday on a recent Friday, board Chairman Hardy B. Fowler garnered attention as...Potholes, water woes: New Orleans seeks more of tourist tax
By Kevin McGill
Source: The Associated Presss
December 26, 2018
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A night’s stay at a New Orleans hotel can take as much as a 15...Should New Orleans have a drainage fee? City Council member is wary
By Beau Evans
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
December 20, 2018
New Orleans Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer warned this week that she would not support any new fee levied on residents...