Airport Governance, Regional Cooperation and Expansion

Overview This On the Ballot report informs voters in the October 24, 2015 election about a proposed quarter-cent sales tax for public safety in New Orleans’ French Quarter and a constitutional amendment allowing the State of Louisiana to invest in an infrastructure bank.

Overview With the primary on the way, BGR submitted questions to all mayoral candidates on topics in four areas: the city’s budget, city services, infrastructure and blight. Four candidates – Rob Couhig, John Georges, Mitch Landrieu and James Perry – responded. BGR is presenting the Q&A to the public in a web-only, four-part series, Questions […]

Overview New Orleans International Airport: Governance, Regional Cooperation and Airport Expansion analyzes the airport’s conditions limiting its physical expansion and approaches to regional cooperation used by airports in similar geopolitical circumstances. Specifically, these circumstances include ownership and authority over the airport residing in one political jurisdiction, the location of airport in another, and a need […]