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New Orleans voters reject Cantrell’s tax proposals

By WDSU Digital Team

Source: WDSU

December 5, 2020

In Orleans Parish, multiple property tax measures were on the Dec. 5 ballot. New Orleans overwhelmingly rejected Mayor LaToya...

Orleans millage proposals beaten badly despite Cantrell threatening layoffs

By WWL Staff

Source: WWL-TV

December 5, 2020

New Orleans voters roundly defeated all three of Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s tax proposals just days after she had warned...

Voters shoot down all three Cantrell-backed tax proposals

By Michael Isaac Stein

Source: The Lens

December 5, 2020

New Orleans voters on Saturday rejected a package of ballot propositions put forward by Mayor LaToya Cantrell that would...

New Orleans to vote on three propositions Saturday

By Morgan Lentes

Source: WDSU

December 4, 2020

NEW ORLEANS — City leaders in New Orleans are calling on residents to approve three propositions on Saturday, which...

Orleans Parish residents will decide on millage propositions during Saturday’s election NEWS by: Anna McAllister

By Anna McAllister

Source: WGNO

December 4, 2020

ORLEANS PARISH, LA. — Orleans Parish voters will have to decide on three millage propositions at the polls. These...

New Orleans mayor threatens layoffs if tax changes fail

By Paul Murphy

Source: WWL-TV

December 4, 2020

NEW ORLEANS — Facing significant opposition to her proposed cut to public libraries and to separate tax increases for...

Fact-Checking Mayor Cantrell’s Case For The City’s Millage Proposal

By Karl Lengel and Aubri Juhasz

Source: WWNO

December 3, 2020

There are three parish-wide millage propositions on the ballot for Orleans Parish residents this weekend. One has to do...

Mayor LaToya Cantrell threatens layoffs if voters say no to proposed tax changes

By Jeff Adelson

Source: The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate

December 3, 2020

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell threatened to lay off city employees unless voters extend three property taxes Saturday. If...

French Quarter Sales Tax gets Sidney Torres endorsement

By Paul Murphy

Source: WWL-TV

December 3, 2020

NEW ORLEANS — Saturday’s tax proposition in the French Quarter just picked up a heavyweight endorsement from one of...

Should New Orleans renew French Quarter sales tax? Sidney Torres says yes; think tank says no

By Jeff Adelson

Source: The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate

December 3, 2020

A nonpartisan think tank recommends French Quarter voters not renew a roughly quarter-cent sales tax in the Vieux Carré...