BGR Wins Award for Helping the City of New Orleans Save Taxpayers $88.5 Million in Interest Costs over 30 Years

The Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) won three awards at the national Governmental Research Association conference July 13-16 in...

Quin Hillyer: Back home in Louisiana, where personalities and politics are bigger than life

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

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?

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BGR Finds ‘Fair Share’ Deal is Improving New Orleans Infrastructure, Can Be Strengthened

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

Today, the Bureau of Governmental Research released a report analyzing the impact of the 2019 “Fair Share” deal to direct new...