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Bobby Jindal’s Repeal of Stelly Plan Was Previously Predicted to Cause Serious Budget Problems
He can’t say he wasn’t warned. When Governor Bobby Jindal decided to sign off on the repeal of the Stelly Plan, a plan that had previously been approved by the majority of Louisiana voters, he knew that many experts predicted that this repeal would result in the loss of at least $350 million in revenue in Year One. From the Louisiana Budget Project, a nonpartisan research group, January 2009: The first of 2009 initiates is the Stelly tax repeal. The Stelly Plan eliminates sales tax on food, drugs and household utilities, and replaces them with income tax. The Stelly Plan…
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A Victory for Alexandria
It has been an incredible honor to work on the Downtown Hotels Initiative, on a daily basis, for the last year. To be sure, we’re not quite there yet. There aren’t any shovels in the ground, and the ink isn’t dry. But we’ve made significant strides in ensuring that one of Alexandria’s most recognizable historical landmarks, the Hotel Bentley, is, once again, restored to commerce and that, for the first time ever, the City-owned assets- the Alexander Fulton Hotel and the Alexandria Riverfront Center- are finally joined in unified management. I’ve been writing about the Hotel Bentley since I created…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
