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Holden's Bond Issue
| 2009-11-15 | |
| Mayor-President Kip Holden’s $901 million capital improvements tax package was soundly defeated by East Baton Rouge Parish voters Saturday. The tax package failed with 64 percent of voters against the proposal and 36 percent in favor, according to complete but unofficial returns from the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office. | |
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| 2009-11-14 | |
| East Baton Rouge Parish voters head to the polls today to cast their ballots on Mayor-President Kip Holden’s proposed $901 million bond issue. | |
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| 2009-11-13 | |
| Those campaigning for and against Mayor-President Kip Holden’s $901 million capital improvements tax package are putting out yard signs, knocking on doors and calling voters in a last-minute push before Saturday’s special election. | |
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| 2009-11-12 | |
| Mayor Kip Holden sat down with John Pastorek to explain why East Baton Rouge Parish needs the proposal passed this weekend. | |
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| Scattered tax and bond propositions are on the ballot Saturday in Acadia, Evangeline, St. Landry, St. Mary and Vermilion parishes. | |
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| 2009-11-06 | |
| What would ordinarily have been a routine vote to sell $21.4 million worth of bonds turned into an unexpected backroom drama at the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board committee meeting Thursday. | |
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| 2009-11-04 | |
| To Mayor-President Kip Holden, the proposed Alive riverfront attraction is key to making his $901 million tax package work. Holden and other Alive supporters say the project — described as an entertainment, educational and research venue — would spur hundreds of millions of dollars in private development downtown. | |
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| 2009-11-03 | |
| If voters approve a $901 million tax package Nov. 14, the River Center complex downtown will be expanded and updated and more parking will be added for visitors. | |
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| 2009-11-01 | |
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A $901 million tax package that Mayor-President Kip Holden says is critical to the city’s future would have an impact on everyone who lives, shops or does business in East Baton Rouge Parish. This is the first of a four-part series on the Nov. 14 bond issue. | |
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| Baton Rouge Police Chief Jeff LeDuff isn’t joking when he uses the words “beyond deplorable shape” to describe the police department’s headquarters on Mayflower Street. This is second in a series about the Nov. 14 bond election. | |
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