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237 Search Results Found For: "orleans council"

  • New Orleans voters head to polls Saturday. Here’s what’s on the ballot.

    New Orleans voters will head to the polls on Saturday with four City Council seats at stake along with a hotly contested race for Orleans Parish sheriff. Live election results: New Orleans sheriff, St
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  • Tax to fund New Orleans library on Saturday’s ballot; here’s what it would pay for

    New Orleans voters will decide Saturday whether to renew a tax that largely funds the city’s public library system, roughly a year after they rejected a tax plan that would have cut library fund
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  • Housing advocates, BGR spar over $4 million New Orleans property tax

    New Orleans voters will decide Saturday whether to continue paying a $4 million property tax for housing assistance. The 0.91-mill levy is relatively small compared to other citywide property taxes, b
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  • New Orleans voters to consider property taxes for libraries, housing

    New Orleans voters will consider two property tax proposals Saturday, one dedicated to the city’s library system and the other for a key housing fund. Both are intended to replace existing milla
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  • Newell: Watchdog group split on New Orleans’ library and housing tax propositions

    The Bureau of Governmental Research has published its report on two tax propositions under consideration in the New Orleans city elections taking place on December 11th. One proposition would help fun
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  • Our Views: In New Orleans, vote “yes” to support libraries

    Last year, New Orleans voters soundly rejected a complicated property tax swap that would have cut deeply into the New Orleans Public Library system’s bottom line. We too were skeptical that this vi
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  • Commentary: Vote yes on New Orleans’ library funding measure

    Early voting for the Dec. 11 municipal runoff begins Nov. 27 in the (thankfully) final election of the year. Voter turnout tends to be pitifully low in December elections, even when the stakes are hig
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  • New Orleans runoff elections 2021: See candidates, millages on the ballot

    New Orleans voters will find themselves inside a voting booth for the second month in a row this December, with two millages and six runoff races to decide on. The quick turnaround from the Nov. 13 el
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  • On New Orleans tax propositions, BGR says yes for library and no for housing

    A prominent government watchdog group is recommending New Orleans voters renew one expiring property tax on the Dec. 11 ballot but reject another. In a report published Monday, the Bureau of Governmen
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  • BGR backs New Orleans library tax proposal, opposes housing millage

    A nonpartisan policy group is split on its opinion of two tax proposals New Orleans voters will consider Dec. 11. The Bureau of Governmental Research issued a report Monday in which it supports a 20-y
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