Federal vaccine mandate won’t extend to Louisiana’s local and state employees, including school district employees
By Marta Jewson The Lens President Joe Biden’s plan to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations or weekly tests for workers at large employers will extend to many state and local government employees — including ... Lawmakers disapprove of detention center evacuation to adult prison
By Rachel Mipro Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Two New Orleans state lawmakers called for changes Thursday to the city’s juvenile detention center evacuation policy after 36 teenagers were sent to an adult ... New Orleans construction projects see funding restored — for now
By Julie O’Donoghue Contributing Writer Republicans may walk back project funding commitments all over the state next month. (lailluminator.com) — The Louisiana State Bond Commission approved funding Thursday (September 16) for over ... ICUs are filling up with Covid – and regret
By Blake Farmer Nashville Public Radio Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — It’s a struggle for Joe Gammon to talk. Lying in his bed in the intensive care unit at Ascension Saint Thomas ... American business leaders step up to fight inequities in the South
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Even as the pandemic has laid bare societal inequities that have long eroded the foundation of our democracy, political leaders in Washington ... Why at-home rapid Covid tests cost so much, even after Biden’s push for lower prices
By Hannah Norman Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — Rapid at-home COVID tests are flying off store shelves across the nation and are largely sold out online as the delta variant complicates ... NOLa. collected more than $460,000 through expired FQ sales tax, but won’t be able to spend it
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens The city of New Orleans has collected $466,671 in sales taxes through July of this year through a special French Quarter sales tax even though the ... In Louisiana, four Black men were shot to death in 1960
By Liz Ryan and Lara Nicholson Contributing Writers Did the FBI fail in trying to resolve Civil Rights cold cases? Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final part in this series produced ... Is the third time the charm?
Last week, Mayor LaToya Cantrell imposed a modified Phase I of Governor Edwards’ Roadmap to a Resilient Louisiana Plan for a “third time,” Cantrell stressed at a press conference. Journalists/propagandists and the Afghanistan military evacuation”
By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist While watching, listening and reading, about events surrounding the Afghanistan evacuation by correspondents, reporters, columnists, and editorial writers for MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, The New York ...
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