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New Orleans City Council candidates debate property-tax freezes, new police chief, rental registry at forum
Source:
uptownmessenger.com
- Aug 18, 2017
Whether to freeze property-tax assessments on homes to fight gentrification or whether the New Orleans Police Department needs a new leader were among the issues debated by candidates for City Council in a Tuesday night forum.
The endorsement forum — hosted by the New Orleans Coalition, a progressive political group formed in 1967 to promote integration, historic preservation, police reform and other issues — invited candidates for all seven seats on the City Council to air their views Tuesday night at the Blake Hotel in downtown New Orleans. The coalition board invited only candidates whom they judged to fit with that mission statement, and those were Joe Giarruso, Tilman Hardy and Aylin Maklansky in District A and Jay H. Banks, Seth Bloom, Catherine Love and Timothy David Ray in District B.
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