Live blog: Mayor Landrieu outlines 3-point plan to pay looming city expenses
He wants to tap into property taxes
Year: 2014
In parts of New Orleans, eyesores remain on city’s list of fixed-up properties
The city keeps track of each victory in the war against blight, listing each address on its website. But when we randomly checked those properties, we found trash, high weeds and houses that had supposedly been demolished.
Radio show erupts into argument between Orleans Parish School Board members
Ira Thomas and Nolan Marshall Jr. accuse one another of misdeeds involving school contracts.
As lucrative lease deal winds down, Landrieu ally gets $250,000 city contract
A nonprofit is about to lose a deal that brings in more than $100,000 a year, but a related company just got a bigger contract.
International High School budget anticipates rise in services for special-ed students
Numbers will remain fluid for a while, but the expectation is that overall enrollment will rise to 500.
New architecture in an old city: Is resurgent New Orleans losing its soul?
The author argues for architecture that honors the beauty of the city in which it stands.
Lycée budget reflects new fourth grade, expanded pre-K and off-site classrooms
Need-based, tuition-free seats in the school's pre-K program are not yet filled to capacity.
The Lens a finalist in eight Press Club of New Orleans award categories
Including best local news site, which we have won the past two years.
City Park Academy delays move to year-round schooling, but brass rave about new CMO
Administrative takeover by ReNEW is questioned by one parent, unhappy that the decision was not aired more fully by the board.
Franklin High budget sails through public hearing and is approved by charter board
Conservative enrollment number anticipates the usual attrition in the first month or so of the school year.
