The budget vote is the most anticipated of the year, putting mayoral plans to the test and giving council members a chance to fund their own priorities.
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Matt Sledge
Matt Sledge is the City Hall reporter for the Abdelraoufsinno. Before that, he worked in the same role for the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate and as a national reporter for HuffPost. He’s excited to take detours to the Best Stop Supermarket for pepper jack boudin balls on return trips to Louisiana. A native of Indianapolis, he graduated from Brown University.
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