September 2021 Archive

There is no longer serious doubt global warming is real
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Record fires in Oregon and California. Floods in Houston and New York. Deadly winter storms in Texas. Droughts across much of the west. Flash floods in England ...
Hurricane Ida’s garbage is stinking?
When several “hoppers” went on strike against Metro Disposal Company in 2020, the workers demanded more pay and benefits. A Metro executive said the company raised wages, but its competitors ...
Gov. Edwards downplays State Police cover-up allegations
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — In a radio interview Wednesday (September 15), Gov. John Bel Edwards downplayed reports that Louisiana State Police troopers engaged in an attempted cover-up of the ...
Study finds voting disparity growing among white, non-white voters
By Darrell Ehrlick Contributing Writer Brennan Center: Gap has widened sinCe 2013 supreme Court deCision on VotinG riGhts aCt (Special from the Daily Montanan via lailluminator.com) — A new report from the Brennan ...
Gov. Edwards extends eviction moratorium
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer On Sept. 6, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards extended a statewide moratorium on evictions until September 24. Gov. Edwards issued a statement accompanying the proclamation that case as ...
Housing advocates fearful of what will happen once eviction moratorium is lifted
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Although Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has extended the state’s eviction moratorium until Sept. 24, local housing advocates fear that many New Orleans residents still face a ...
Gulf South Coalition calls for ‘intersectional’ infrastructure investment
By Zoe Sullivan Contributing Writer “Just because you give somebody solar and a battery, doesn’t mean people can afford to stay in their homes,” Keya Chatterjee told reporters. Chatterjee runs U.S. Climate ...
ECMO is the highest level of life support – beyond a ventilator, which pumps oxygen via a tube through the windpipe into the lungs. Instead, the ECMO process basically functions as a heart and lungs outside of the body – routing the blood via tubing to a machine that oxygenates it, then pumps it back into the patient. Photo by Blake Farmer/Nashville Public Radio via khn.org
ECMO life support is a last resort for Covid, and in short supply in South
By Blake Farmer Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — Hospital discharge day for Phoua Yang was more like a pep rally. On her way rolling out of TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, ...
Housing advocates: Weak renter protections can result in ‘life-endangering crisis’ after damaging storms
By Madeline Aruffo The Lens Sylvia Burn warned her landlord multiple times in the last year about the leaks in the ceiling of her Prytania Street apartment, she told The Lens in ...
In Louisiana, four Black men were shot to death in 1960
By Liz Ryan and Rachel Mipro Contributing Writers Editor’s Note: This is the third in a four-part series produced by the Manship News Service at the LSU Manship School of Mass Commun-ication ...

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