Recommendations for the March 24 elections
Jefferson Parish voters will cast their ballots on Saturday in the first truly competitive Sheriff’s race in decades. Two distinct visions for the future of the JPSO will confront ... OPSB must pay $12M to students who attended school atop hazardous waste site
By Marta Jewson The Lens A civil district court judge has ordered the Orleans Parish School Board to pay about $12 million to 1,433 former students who attended a school built on ... New Orleans City Council to consider limited rollback on Airbnb licenses
By Charles Maldonado The Lens The New Orleans City Council advanced a proposal Thursday to limit the number of apartments that can be offered in a single building year-round on Airbnb. ... The Penalty for the wrongfully accused
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer In a perfect world, Damon Thibodeaux would receive an apology for the 15 years he spent on death row, mostly in solitary confinement, in Louisiana’s notorious Angola ... N.O. residents receive an update on monument removal
Less than three months before he leaves office, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is laying out a path forward for four prominent public spaces where Confederate-era monuments once stood. In ... Professor who calls Blacks, Hispanics more violent than whites appointed to Trump’s Sentencing Commission
By Kaitlyn D’Onofrio Contributing Writer (Special from The Washington Informer via DiversityInc) — A former federal prosecutor who once said Blacks and Hispanics are more violent than whites has been tapped to ... Brusly, La. teacher arrested after allegedly attacking a child
A West Baton Rouge Parish elementary school teacher is facing charges of battery and cruelty to juveniles, stemming from an incident in her classroom last month. Medicaid poison pill kills La. Legislative special session
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer The key moment of the failed legislative special session was Friday afternoon, March 2nd, when New Orleans Democratic Rep. Walt Leger came up short in his attempt ... The appointee behind the move to add ‘citizenship’ to the Census
By Justin Elliott ProPublica In December, the Department of Justice requested that the Census Bureau add a question to the 2020 survey that would ask respondents to reveal whether or not they ... U.S. steel, aluminum tariffs expected to hurt Port of NOLA and Louisiana
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Steel and aluminum tariffs, authorized by President Donald Trump on Thursday, will take their toll on Louisiana’s economy, Port NOLA officers and others predicted last week. ...
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