October 2015 Archive

Mayor’s budget restores staffing citywide, anticipates council will roll taxes forward
By Charles Maldonado The Lens Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s 2016 budget proposal unveiled Thursday includes more than 200 additional full-time city jobs, the most significant proposed increase during his administration, which has largely ...
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#BlackGirlsRock: 12-year-old makes Forbes Magazine
(Special from EURweb) – At 12 years old, Zuriel Oduwale, has more going on for her than most people of any age. So is it really a surprise that a ...
There’s no place like home for taking your blood pressure
(Special from NorthStarNews Today) – Individuals are being urged to take their blood pressure at home or other places outside of a hospital setting because being in a physician’s ...
Minority women get worse breast cancer care, regardless of tumor type
By Mary Elizabeth Dallas Contributing Writer HealthDay News — No matter the type or stage of breast cancer, minority women are more likely to be diagnosed later in the disease than white ...
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Garifunas, yet another spice in New Orleans’ melting pot
By Allana Barefield Contributing Writer Every culture has its own values, traditions, and beliefs that make it unique. New Orleans, truly a melting pot of various ethnicities and cultures, is home to ...
Debit card service for unemployment benefits ends in La.
Louisiana residents who currently receive unemployment benefits by debit card have until Tuesday, Oct. 27, to change to direct-deposit banking or their benefits will be delivered as a paper check ...
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina resulting in the breaking of levees that inundated the city with flood waters, Rosenwald Center reopens its doors last week. At left, a resident of the Marrero Commons Commons tries out its new basketball court.
Rosenwald Center reopens its doors to community
By Ivory Bibbins Contributing Writer It took 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, but the B.W. Cooper community, now called the Marrero Commons, has a public center. The new Rosenwald Recreation Center located ...
N.O.’s ‘Blueprint for Safety’ celebrates first year
By Tatyana Aubert Contributing Writer The fight to end domestic violence in New Orleans continues. Just last year, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced the launch of the Blueprint for Safety project, a ...
Judge orders reopening of Orleans Parish Prison’s transport docks
A month after Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman shut down the Orleans Parish Prison transport facility used to move inmates to Orleans Parish Criminal Court, raising concerns about security and ...
The small axe
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor "Oh, evil men/ Playing smart/ And not being clever?/ I said, you're working iniquity/ To achieve vanity (if a-so a-so)/ But the goodness of Jah, Jah/ I-dureth ...

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