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The New Orleans City Council will be hearing amendments today on the next budget. One would beef up the 911 dispatch center.Council President Jason…
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The New Orleans jail is up for discussion today. The city's Inspector General is pleading with officials to keep the new jail on track, and expenses…
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Residents and businesses who fail to pay their sanitation fees will have their water service shut off under a law passed Thursday by the City Council. The…
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Reporter Eve Abrams takes a look at the benefits and obstacles that are being faced by Homer Plessy Community School, a new charter school on St. Claude…
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Governor Bobby Jindal vowed not to raise taxes, of any type. Instead, he has maintained the budget with spending cuts, meaning deep cuts in areas like…
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The Senate has given the House a tough decision. Senators rewrote the representatives’ version of the budget, re-allocating arguably unstable funds that
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The Senate Wednesday dashed the House’s hopes of eliminating from the state budget what some lawmakers consider to be unstable funding. The fiscal hawks in
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Thursday House Speaker Chuck Kleckley endorsed a plan that would raise revenue and cut spending. Earlier this week, the budget was on track to avoid much
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The Baton Rouge Metro Airport's budget is projected to increase by nearly 5 percent in 2013 to $13.1 million. That's according to a proposal presented to…
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Repeated rounds of budget shortfalls have prompted lawmakers to take an in-depth look at the long list of tax breaks that siphon billions of dollars from…