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Behind The Lens episode 48: ‘It raises questions about how the Assessor’s Office is tracking the several other industrial tax exemptions that currently exist’

The impact that industrial farms are having on local fishermen and the Gulf Dead Zone, verifying record keeping on the Industrial Tax Exemption Program, and why Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is bringing her fair election fight to Louisiana.
by Jessica Rosgaard

This week on Behind the Lens:

Shrinking the Gulf Coast Dead Zone. How nutrients from industrial farms in the midwest are affecting the Gulf, impacting the fishing industry, and what can be done to fix it. Reporter Spike Johnson has that story.

And – the Industrial Tax Exemption Program. The Orleans Parish Assessor’s office vows to conduct a review of its records in order to verify millions of dollars worth of corporate property tax exemptions. Michael Isaac Stein explains.

Also, we talk to fair elections crusader, Democrat Stacey Abrams, about her fight against voter suppression in 2020, and why she has an eye on Louisiana’s fall gubernatorial election.