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Our Views: More action by New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board management needed over membership change
By Advocate Editorial
Source: The Advocate
November 17, 2018
A charter amendment on the Dec. 8 ballot would make changes in the membership of the group that oversees...
New Orleans City Planning Commission approves affordable housing plan minus key element
By Jeff Adelson
Source: The Advocate
November 18, 2018
The New Orleans City Planning Commission has recommended dropping the core element of a plan aimed at increasing the...Should a City Council member be on the Sewerage & Water Board? New Orleans will decide
By Beau Evans
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
November 15, 2018
New Orleans voters will decide next month whether to return a New Orleans City Council member to the Sewerage & Water Board’s 11-person...On the Ballot: S&WB Governance Change, December 8, 2018
(November 15, 2018) – Today the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) releases a report to inform voters on a...Gov. Edwards opposes plan to redirect hotel taxes to New Orleans infrastructure
By Jeff Adelson
Source: The Advocate
November 13, 2018
A plan by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell to ask state lawmakers to shift some hotel taxes from tourism...Gov. John Bel Edwards on State Priorities of Local Importance
On November 13, 2018, Governor John Bel Edwards presented at a BGR Breakfast Briefing on State of Louisiana priorities...
Here’s the first look at proposed $558M Ernest N. Morial Convention Center hotel project’s exterior
By Advocate Staff
Source: The Advocate
November 13, 2018
The would-be developers of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s proposed $557.5 million, 1,200-room Omni Hotel have released the first design...See the Morial Convention Center hotel developers want
By Kevin Litten
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
November 13, 2018
The developer of a proposed 1,200-room Ernest N. Morial Convention Center hotel has released a rendering of the structure,...Voters To Decide On Constitutional Amendment Meant To Ease Blow Of Property Tax Increases
By Jess Clark
Source: WWNO
November 1, 2018
There will be several proposed changes to the state constitution on the ballot next Tuesday. One of them, Amendment...Jefferson Parish tax renewals on the ballot, with new taxes proposed for local fire departments
By Faimon A. Roberts III
Source: The Advocate
October 24, 2018
Jefferson Parish voters will take up three parishwide tax renewals when they go to the polls Nov. 6, while...