Voters rejected a 67 percent increase in a tax that funds flood protection.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Schools
Voters approve tax extension to maintain New Orleans schools
Over time, an existing tax will be shifted to a fund to maintain school buildings.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Track U.S. Senate, New Orleans races tonight with our live election map
See where Bill Cassidy got the most support in his upset of Sen. Mary Landrieu. We’re also tracking the two Orleans Parish judicial races and the school tax.
Posted inSchools
Voters to decide whether to extend existing tax in order to maintain schools
Check back here Saturday night for precinct-by-precinct results on the citywide school tax.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Decline and fall: Emperor Jindal as the ancient Romans might have seen him
Our government serves the interests of corporations over common people, much as the Caesars concentrated power within their bloodline alone.
Posted inSchools
School-tax vote Saturday comes even as some don’t know who controls schools
On Saturday, New Orleans voters will decide whether to invest as much as $150 million dollars into maintaining public school facilities through a property tax — but at key moments in the past week, important players don’t seem to know exactly who’s in charge of the buildings.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Landrieu, Civil Service win ruling that aimed to stop personnel overhaul
Judge decided that because sweeping personnel changes hadn’t harmed anyone yet, case was premature.
Posted inSchools
Some schools agree to remove banners encouraging a vote on school tax
Opponents say use of school property and intent of signs violate laws.
Posted inOpinion
Slavery museum at upriver plantation stirs controversy on both sides of racial divide
Black and white folks alike — some of them skeptics, some of them cynics — seem to be mightily opposed to the idea of a slave museum.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Let’s pay more than lip service to citizen participation in the city budget process
Participatory Budgeting is a worldwide movement that needs to be adopted here in New Orleans.