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A new plan to solve St. Tammany's budget problem? Parish President Mike Cooper thinks so.
St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper will formally ask the Parish Council next month to increase property taxes on drainage, public safety, and the parish’s animal shelter — and offset those increases by cutting more than $1 million per year from the …