New Orleans' 2025 budget: The winners and losers

The big picture: City Council members said they prioritized funding quality-of-life improvements, affordable housing projects, health-based initiatives and public safety efforts. • "We have heard time and again that residents do not feel they are receiving the services they pay for, whether that is street improvements or ease of other government services," said council member Joe Giarrusso, who chaired the budget process this year. By the numbers: The budget adds more than $69 million to Mayor LaToya Cantrell's executive budget proposal, writes Verite's Katie Jane Fernelius. • The extra money...