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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...March 26 Briefing Explores Lessons Learned from Super Bowl Infrastructure Playbook
March 26, 2025
More than 500 local infrastructure projects and repairs were completed in the leadup to Super Bowl LIX, eclipsing a...
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,...
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/BGR Finds ‘Fair Share’ Deal is Improving New Orleans Infrastructure, Can Be Strengthened
By Biz New Orleans Staff
Source: Biz New Orleans
September 6, 2024
NEW ORLEANS — This week, the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR), a private, nonprofit, independent research organization dedicated to...BGR Finds ‘Fair Share’ is Improving N.O. Infrastructure, Can Be Strengthened
September 5, 2024
Today, the Bureau of Governmental Research released a report analyzing the impact of the 2019 “Fair Share” deal to direct new...