October 2019 Archive

Fannie Lou Hamer died of untreated breast cancer
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the proliferation of pink ribbons is about to start. Predatory capitalists will make breast cancer their cause, producing pink t-shirts, ...
College cheating parents prove white privilege is alive and well
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist First there was disgraced Desperate Housewives Felicity Huffman’s ridiculously low prison sentence of 14 days for her role in the college cheating scandal. Next there was ...
Citywide school audit will cover about 5 percent of high school student files
By Marta Jewson The Lens NOLA Public Schools district Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr.’s promised citywide audit of high school academic records will cover about five percent of high school students, The Lens ...
Report gives New Orleans a ‘D’ grade for affordable housing
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer On September 30, HousingNOLA unveiled its annual report card on the state of affordable housing in New Orleans at the Love Your City Hour event at the ...
Council called on to dismiss outstanding traffic warrants
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer The movement continues to build toward eliminating the drastic, negative effects on average citizens when governmental agencies and courts revoke driver’s licenses and issue arrest warrants simply ...
Gordon Plaza residents continue to fight for relocation
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer Americans who labor long and hard to buy a home are thought to be living the American Dream. But first-time homebuyers, who bought homes in Gordon Plaza, ...
IRS: Sorry, but it’s just easier and cheaper to audit the poor
By Paul Kiel ProPublica Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn't have enough money and people to ...
Court-appointed special education monitors detail how the state picked the wrong New Orleans schools for federal consent decree scrutiny
By Marta Jewson The Lens Independent monitors overseeing the Louisiana Department of Education’s work under a federal consent judgment have identified a series of mistakes — ranging from calculation errors to what ...
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Pediatricians stand by meds for ADHD, but some say therapy should come first
By Alex Smith, KCUR Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — When children are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, stimulant medications like Ritalin or Adderall are usually the first line of treatment.
Don’t ignore this overlooked symptom of dementia
(thebottomline.com) — Memory loss is nearly synonymous with dementia, but there’s another symptom of this devastating brain disorder that deserves greater attention. That was the finding of intriguing research recently ...

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