State environmental agency investigating asbestos contamination at New Orleans school
By Marta Jewson The Lens The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality wants to know what went wrong at the Rosenwald school building, where contractors will be doing a $1.3 million asbestos clean-up.
Months after end of ‘predictive policing’ contract, Cantrell administration works on new tool to ID ‘high-risk’ residents
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens Months after the city abandoned a controversial data initiative used to predict and identify which New Orleans residents were most likely to be entangled in violent ... Children’s rights group aid juveniles serving life sentences
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Propelled by the belief that young people can turn their lives around and redeem themselves for past crimes, the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights (LACCR) earlier this ... The battle for the ballot
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer A review of America’s voting landscape shows Republican officials drawing from an arsenal of laws and policies to prevent non-whites from voting. The GOP use of gerrymandered ... Is gout silently stalking you?
(Special from bottomline-inc.com) — Even people who’ve never had gout have heard how extremely painful it is. But how many of us ever do anything to avoid it? Almost no ... Council president Jason Williams announces bid for O.P.D.A.
Catching many people off guard last week, New Orleans City Council President Jason Williams, a former defense attorney, announced Tuesday night at the New Orleans Film Festival that he will ... Members of violent supremacist group face Riot charges
By A.C. Thompson ProPublica Federal authorities announced riot charges against four members of the Rise Above Movement, a violent white supremacist group based in California. The charges relate to assaults carried out ...
In days of data galore, patients are having trouble getting own medical records
By Judith Graham Contributing Writer (Special from Kaiser Health News) — Medical records can be hard for patients to get, even in this digital information age. But they shouldn’t be: Federal law ... More than 2 million Blacks couldn’t vote in 2016 because of felony convictions
(Special from BlackmansStreet.To-day.com) – Blacks in prison usually can’t vote. More than two million African Americans were disenfranchised from voting in 2016 because of felony convictions, according to a report compiled ... Recidivism and reentry programs get state funding
By Rachel Mipro Contributing Writer (LSU Manship School News Service) – There is a garden next to the house on Perdido Street, and a red dog house on the porch that used ...
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By Marta Jewson The Lens The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality wants to know what went wrong at the Rosenwald school building, where contractors will be doing a $1.3 million asbestos clean-up.
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens Months after the city abandoned a controversial data initiative used to predict and identify which New Orleans residents were most likely to be entangled in violent ... Children’s rights group aid juveniles serving life sentences
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Propelled by the belief that young people can turn their lives around and redeem themselves for past crimes, the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights (LACCR) earlier this ... The battle for the ballot
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer A review of America’s voting landscape shows Republican officials drawing from an arsenal of laws and policies to prevent non-whites from voting. The GOP use of gerrymandered ... Is gout silently stalking you?
(Special from bottomline-inc.com) — Even people who’ve never had gout have heard how extremely painful it is. But how many of us ever do anything to avoid it? Almost no ... Council president Jason Williams announces bid for O.P.D.A.
Catching many people off guard last week, New Orleans City Council President Jason Williams, a former defense attorney, announced Tuesday night at the New Orleans Film Festival that he will ... Members of violent supremacist group face Riot charges
By A.C. Thompson ProPublica Federal authorities announced riot charges against four members of the Rise Above Movement, a violent white supremacist group based in California. The charges relate to assaults carried out ...
By Judith Graham Contributing Writer (Special from Kaiser Health News) — Medical records can be hard for patients to get, even in this digital information age. But they shouldn’t be: Federal law ... More than 2 million Blacks couldn’t vote in 2016 because of felony convictions
(Special from BlackmansStreet.To-day.com) – Blacks in prison usually can’t vote. More than two million African Americans were disenfranchised from voting in 2016 because of felony convictions, according to a report compiled ... Recidivism and reentry programs get state funding
By Rachel Mipro Contributing Writer (LSU Manship School News Service) – There is a garden next to the house on Perdido Street, and a red dog house on the porch that used ...
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