2020 Election recommendations
Early voting began in Louisiana on Friday, October 16, and if ever there was an election where the electorate should run to the polls as fast as possible, it is ... Court rules Kennedy High School students have grounds to sue OPSB, BESE after graduation scandal
By Marta Jewson The Lens The state Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal has reversed lower court rulings that dismissed the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and Orleans Parish School Board ... Thirty years after non-unanimous conviction, victim of domestic abuse is paroled
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer A Louisiana woman who had been convicted by a non-unanimous jury and subsequently served more than three decades in prison was released from incarceration last week after ... City shuts down competing plan for French Quarter security
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens The city of New Orleans and the French Quarter Management District have been pushing two separate plans for how to use the proceeds from a quarter ... Older COVID patients battle ‘brain fog,’ weakness and emotional turmoil
By Judith Graham Contributing Writer (khn.org) — “Lord, give me back my memory.” For months, as Marilyn Walters has struggled to recover from COVID-19, she has repeated this prayer day and night. Federal judge block efforts to ease rules for mail-in ballots
By Billy Corriher Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — In the final weeks of the 2020 election, Republican-appointed appellate judges have overturned rulings that required states to make mail-in voting easier ... Bill that would have protected defiant Louisiana pastor dies in committee
By Jarvis DeBerry Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — A bill meant to defend a Louisiana pastor who defiantly flouted the state’s COVID-19 restrictions on crowd size died in a Louisiana Senate committee on ... Study: Black millennials, Gen-Zers believe in the American Dream
(Special from The Grio via Defender News Service) — New research done by Echelon Insights reveals that millennials and Generation Z believe that the “American Dream” is possible and are ... With city personnel cuts looming, Cantrell quietly moved to replace Civil Service Commission chair
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens The chair of the New Orleans Civil Service Commission for the last five years, Michelle Craig, was quietly replaced on the commission this month without any ... New bill aims to end racial disparities in amputations
By Lizzie Presser ProPublica On Friday (October 16), Congressman Donald M. Payne Jr., a Democrat from New Jersey, introduced a sweeping bill to reduce unnecessary amputations and address racial disparities that were ...
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