Sinking homes, damaged roads: How a N.O. community struggles against subsidence
By Sara Sneath Contributing Writer (Special from Floodlight via lailluminator.com) – In the early 1990s, James Wright lost his family home in the 9th Ward neighborhood when a new school was built ... Army Corps questions cumulative environmental and health impact of Greenfield’s proposed grain elevator project in letter rejecting “cultural resources survey”
By Joshua Rosenberg The Lens A letter in which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rejected the cultural resources survey a consulting firm submitted on behalf of Greenfield Louisiana LLC – ... Industrial tax break reforms strengthened La. business climate, study finds
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) – A new analysis found that reforms to Louisiana’s popular industrial tax subsidy appear to have strengthened the state’s business climate. Advocates of the changes made ... After troubled pilot program, New Orleans moving forward with plan to respond to mental health emergencies without police
By Nick Chrastil The Lens Every year, operators and dispatchers at the New Orleans 911 Call Center handle thousands of calls for non-violent mental health crises — calls they say have been ... In Louisiana, Black men more likely to get monkeypox, white men more likely vaccinated
By Julie O’Donoghue Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) – In a small parking lot outside of one of Baton Rouge’s few gay bars, health care workers remained upbeat, even as they admitted they had ... Abortion bans skirt a medical reality: For many teens, childbirth is a dangerous undertaking
By Sarah Varney Contributing Writer (khn.org) — Maryanna’s eyes widened as the waitress delivered dessert, a plate-sized chocolate chip cookie topped with hot fudge and ice cream. Marijuana possession enforcement has ‘virtually vanished’ in New Orleans this year following council ordinance, NOPD policy change
By Nick Chrastil The Lens After decades of responding to possession of marijuana with arrests or summons that led to prosecutions, jail time, and fines for thousands of citizens, the New Orleans ... Cutting through confusion of voter registration
(Ethnic Media Services) – In the United States, one-third of eligible voters are not registered to vote. The reasons behind the millions of unregistered voters are manifold but one of ... This November, unite to defend the Black vote
By Ben Jealous TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Right before our last national elections in 2020, thousands of Black voters in Detroit got a call from someone posing as a woman named “Tamika Taylor.” She ... The real deal
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Before I jump into the main subject of this week’s article, I would like to remind you that political campaigns are a costly endeavor.
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