Crossover voters helped pass roads tax opposed by most voters in Central, southeast EBR

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While the city-parish as a whole voted Saturday to approve Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s roads tax—with a healthy 61% approval—voters in Central and Shenandoah strongly opposed the 30-year, half-cent sales tax, which is expected to generate more than $900 million for some 70 projects. Though a couple of major road improvement projects in Central are among the

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