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Live blog: Mayor Landrieu inaugurated to second term Monday morning
Join us when the ceremony begins at 10 a.m.
Mayoral appointees get raises, promotions while Landrieu thins ranks at City Hall
The mayor has touted how he’s made City Hall leaner and more efficient. But there’s one place that hasn’t seen much belt-tightening: the mayor’s office itself. He's hired more appointees and boosted their pay as the number of police officers and firefighters has dropped.
Some one-time state money being budgeted more judiciously for 2015
Fiscal Hawks flying below radar this year, but their efforts from last year are coming home to roost.
Tricentennial will make for a very big year — and perhaps an equally big tax bite
The Landrieu administration devised a grow-or-die strategy for post-Katrina recovery and hopes to bring it to consummation by 2018.
Keith Hardie talks Audubon tax fight, Newcomb fence at Newsmakers event
Watch here at 8 a.m. Thursday; you'll have to supply the danishes and coffee.
Landrieu seeks special riverfront tax district to pay for decrees and pensions
The tourism industry is falling in line behind the measure — to avoid yet another hotel/motel tax increase.
Mission accomplished: Landrieu administration promises one thing on blight, delivers another
The mayor promised to remediate 10,000 blighted properties in New Orleans. In January, he announced he had met his goal. But that was based on a study of all properties that had been fixed up, regardless of whether the city got involved. The city is now cited as a model for blight reduction, but there’s no official count of properties that have been remediated.
Post-mortem on Audubon millage: more to its defeat than anti-tax fervor
Family budgets have been nibbled from all sides by fees and walloped by higher rents or property taxes. Incomes haven’t kept pace.
Bill to lessen crime of marijuana possession backed by liberals, libertarians
But it faces strong opposition from law enforcement. A committee will hear the bill Tuesday.
