BATON ROUGE -- Jefferson Parish Assessor Tom Capella is entitled to a $1.6 million increrase in his office allowance, the House decided Wednesday. But before he can get it, Gov.

Jefferson Parish Assessor Lawrence Chehardy has long advocated raising the homestead exemption, but after a wave of property-tax sticker shock hit homeowners last year, he is lifting his campaign to ...

Two thirds of Jefferson Parish's homeowners will see either no change in their property valuation or a small decrease as a result of this year's quadrennial reassessment, Assessor Tom ...