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Louisiana voters will be confronted with 10 proposed constitutional amendments when they cast their ballots this fall, and state lawmakers are asking them to approve several aimed at keeping down property taxes. Five amendments dealing with property taxes are part of…
The numbers driving Williams' objection are striking. HGI recommended a combined $17 million in assessment reductions this year, and Williams is disputing nearly $11 million of that total, per the same report. About two-thirds of the disputed properties are commercial, not residential.
(The Center Square) – Louisiana has restored active status to all voters mistakenly classified as inactive during a database maintenance error Monday that affected about 67,000 people. Trey Williams, deputy secretary of state for communications and policy, told The Center Square the…
Kirk Williamson had plans for a larger apartment project on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in New Orleans. Were it not for a city-mandated affordable housing provision, it might have been built. Now, the City Council is rolling back that…
The New Orleans Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that happened at a residence in the 7th Ward neighborhood. The robbery happened just before 3 p.m. on Friday in the 1400 block of N. Roman Street. According to police, several construction workers were working…
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has given Louisiana's Attorney General's Office $1,000,000. According to the DOJ, these funds will help implement efforts to identify, serve, and empower victims of technology-facilitated abuse, such as image-based…
Earthjustice serves hundreds of public-interest clients, providing top-tier legal representation free of charge — and we win. Because the earth needs a good lawyer. After the Louisiana PSC ruled that Meta can continue withholding critical information as it fast-tracks approval of…