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By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Last week, state Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said he has publicly opposed “balance billing” by hospitals during his nine years in office. To control their own costs, ... New Orleans experiencing a sharp rise in non-fatal shootings
NOPD crime stats show that there were 15 homicides over the first two months of 2016. If that rate continues, the city would finish the year with 90 murders — ...
Are flu vaccines worth the effort?
By Glenn Ellis George Curry Media Columnist The flu (or common flu) is a viral infection that is spread from person to person in secretions of the nose and lungs, for ...
The dichotomy: Honoring voting rights heroes, blocking voting-rights restoration
By Sue Sturgis Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) – Republican congressional leaders joined with their Democratic colleagues last month in a rare show of bipartisan unity to present the Congressional Gold ... During this election season, Black political power still not fully realized
By Jennifer L. Patin Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Some will reflect on 2015 as a year of renewed civil rights mobilization. Whether catalyzed by the loss of Black lives, restrictive state voting ... City shielding statue-removal bidders from protesters
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By Allana Barefield Contributing Writer The chemotherapy fluids dripped slowly. The clock kept ticking minute by minute, heard by everyone in the room. The scars from surgery and the noticeable weight loss ... State school board drops hot potato of school funding in local board’s lap
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By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Last week, state Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said he has publicly opposed “balance billing” by hospitals during his nine years in office. To control their own costs, ... New Orleans experiencing a sharp rise in non-fatal shootings
NOPD crime stats show that there were 15 homicides over the first two months of 2016. If that rate continues, the city would finish the year with 90 murders — ...
By Glenn Ellis George Curry Media Columnist The flu (or common flu) is a viral infection that is spread from person to person in secretions of the nose and lungs, for ...
By Sue Sturgis Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) – Republican congressional leaders joined with their Democratic colleagues last month in a rare show of bipartisan unity to present the Congressional Gold ... During this election season, Black political power still not fully realized
By Jennifer L. Patin Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Some will reflect on 2015 as a year of renewed civil rights mobilization. Whether catalyzed by the loss of Black lives, restrictive state voting ... City shielding statue-removal bidders from protesters
After a Baton Rouge-based firm backed out of a contract to remove four Confederate-era monuments from public spaces in New Orleans earlier this year, the City of New Orleans is ... Cities that get it right on public transportation and a few that don’t
By Emily Logan Contributing Writer (Special Analysis from New America Media) – Americans took a record 10.8 billion transit trips in 2014—the most in 58 years. More cities are realizing the critical ... Patient activists urge more screenings for colon cancer
By Allana Barefield Contributing Writer The chemotherapy fluids dripped slowly. The clock kept ticking minute by minute, heard by everyone in the room. The scars from surgery and the noticeable weight loss ... State school board drops hot potato of school funding in local board’s lap
By Marta Jewson The Lens A last-minute switch drastically altered the charge of the state’s highest school board in developing a controversial funding formula aimed at Orleans Parish students. They didn’t have to. That ... Cao joins Senate race, skeptical on Trump
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Last week, former New Orleans Republican Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao became the latest candidate to join the U.S. Senate race to replace the retiring David Vitter. ...
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