January 2012 Archive

Orleans Parish School Board grants initial approval to two new charter schools for 2012-13
By Jessica Williams fast lane check cashing thelensnola.org Only two of seven charter applications were tentatively approved by the Orleans Parish School Board Tuesday night, despite vigorous support by some board members ...
Stay in your place Juan!!!
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist On Monday, January 16, 2012, the night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday observance, FOX News commentator and Republican Party debate moderator, ...
Study correlates school expulsion to crime in N.O.
By Zoe Sullivan Contributing Writer Research on Reforms issued a new report on the state of public education in New Orleans this month called “RSD’s Continuing Failure: High Schools and Crime in ...
Who gets food stamps?
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Newt Gingrich is playing racial politics and he is playing to win. First he says that black children should get jobs as janitors (why not suggest they ...
Viewing Stands Now Available for Mardi Gras Parade Seating
New Orleans, LA --Sales of the parade stand seating for the 2012 Mardi Gras season has commenced. Viewing stands have been positioned in the CBD along St. Charles Ave. across ...
City’s business of fighting blight is through use of Sheriff’s auctions
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Dilemmas involving property holders who moved away or can’t afford repairs, along with ownership questions and other issues, make New Orleans one of the nation’s most ...
Volunteers needed to build playground
Volunteers are needed to help build a playground in one day for children at Langston Hughes Academy Charter School, which is located at 3519 Trafalgar Street in New Orleans. On ...
NORD Commission again stumbles over Open Meetings Act, has to delay decision
By Matt Davis thelensnola.org A subcommittee of the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission aiming to appoint a new chief executive adjourned a meeting this afternoon without taking any action, after activist attorney ...
La.’s first Black female federal judge, Nannette Jolivette Brown, honored
The first Black woman loan instant solutions.us to serve on the federal bench in Louisiana was honored at a formal investiture ceremony Thursday.
President Obama calls for corporations to bring jobs home
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — As a keen focus continues on what appears to be a recovering economy, but rising unemployment rate for African Americans, President Obama last week ...

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