November 2018 Archive

Hate and horror – when does it stop?
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist As strange as it seems, I now view the Bush years with nostalgia. Both Big Bush (POTUS 41) and his son Shrub (POTUS 43) incurred the ...
High Black turnout swings critical elections
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Despite the absence of any competitive congressional elections in Louisiana, African-American turnout nearly outpaced Caucasian attendance at the polls. At 31 percent, the active percentage of the ...
Central City lead poisoning case shows possible weaknesses in state prevention program
By Kerry Nix The Lens Shawanda Holmes took her two-year-old son Louis to the doctor in 2015 for what she assumed would be a routine check-up. He was about to start school ...
GSU approved to offer cybersecurity degree
(NNPA Newswire) — Grambling State University has been approved to offer the state’s first Bachelor of Science degree in cybersecurity. The University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors provided ...
Council votes for potential $5 million fine on Entergy
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens At a special meeting on Wednesday, the City Council passed two resolutions that aim to, in the words of one of the resolutions, engender a “sea-change ...
The killings in a Kentucky Kroger’s last week, are being investigated as hate crimes
(TriceEdneyWire.com) — As civil rights leaders and voting advocates around the nation prepared for the Nov. 6 mid-term elections last week, they suddenly found themselves embroiled with a string of ...
Former New Orleans mayor supports unanimous verdicts
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial last week said he hopes the bi-partisan movement to abolish non-unanimous jury verdicts in Louisiana can serve as a model of ...
Gentilly residents get Wellness Center in their neighborhood
Residents in the Gentilly area of the city now have a Community Wellness Center available to them. Located in the Gentilly Shopping Center, the Center was opened by AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana ...
Farmers’ markets in many parts of Louisiana say ‘no’ to SNAP
By Trey Couvillion and Sarah Procopio Contributing Writers (LSU Manship School News Service) — For Earlene Watts, walking to a farmers market with her 15-year-old son has become a weekend ritual. ...
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Why resist those Halloween and holiday candy binges?
By Glenn Ellis Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — By the time you read this column, you’re looking at the piles of candy you weren’t able to give out, or that is the bounty ...

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