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Like the old days: School Board meeting descends into chaos
Council members kill time after the scheduled 9 a.m. start of their meeting this morning. Photo by Steve Beatty
Johnson and Hedge-Morrell continue City Council stalemate
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Algiers charter board meets in private building with little notice
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A blog reborn: The ‘heritage’ that gave rise to The Lens

Newcomers to this site may not be aware that before there was The Lens there was a blog called Squandered Heritage. With help from a wee band of fellow zealots, I devoted Squandered Heritage to the task of chronicling the parlous state of the built environment in New Orleans post-Katrina, with particular attention to the city’s priceless residential architecture.

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A new look, but the same solid reporting from The Lens

Welcome to the redesigned site of The Lens. We hope you like what you see here, and we want to hear your thoughts on the effort — positive or negative. Please email Managing Editor Steve Beatty at sbeatty@TheLensNola.org. We’ll do our best to incorporate your feedback to make this site the best it can be.

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Education department releases guidelines for restraining, isolating disruptive students

In response to simmering concerns over reported abuses, the U.S. Department of Education issued multiple guidelines Tuesday for how schools can avoid going overboard in restraining or isolating disruptive students.…

Center for Public Integrity
New GOP super PAC aimed at attracting youth vote

Three Republican groups have formed a super PAC called “Crossroads Generation” and given it $750,000 in seed money in an attempt to attract the youth vote, a population that has traditionally eluded the GOP…

Rachael Marcus
Cracking the “Blue Wall of Silence”

Report on New York City police who have been publicly critical of policing strategies…

The Crime Report