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East Baton Rouge Parish voters are once again being asked to consider a library tax proposition. Supporters say critics are missing important context. Critics say taxpayers deserve a closer look at the numbers.
Today, we’re setting aside the rhetoric and opening the documents ourselves. We’ll examine the failed November proposal, the current June proposal, library usage statistics, fund balances, and ten years of financial reports to see what the records actually show.
As always, our goal isn’t to tell you what to think. It’s to show you where the information comes from so you can decide for yourself.
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Facts First. Even When They’re Inconvenient.
Some outlets or groups tell you what to think. Others have discovered there’s an easier way to build an audience: tell people exactly what they want to hear. We’ve chosen a harder path.
At Citizens for a New Louisiana, we start with the evidence — public records, financial disclosures, court filings, voting records, audits, and original documents — and follow it wherever it leads. Sometimes the facts confirm what we expected. Sometimes they surprise us. Sometimes they disappoint our friends. Either way, we publish them.
That approach doesn’t always produce the loudest headlines or the easiest fundraising. But over time, it produces something much more valuable: TRUST. If you value independent Louisiana journalism that puts evidence ahead of outrage and principle ahead of tribe, please help us continue the work.
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Library facilities must be a honey hole to move money from this building to ngo ‘s and political pockets?