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Year: 2014

Track U.S. Senate, New Orleans races tonight with our live election map

See where Bill Cassidy got the most support in his upset of Sen. Mary Landrieu. We're also tracking the two Orleans Parish judicial races and the school tax.
by Thomas Thoren December 6, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Voters to decide whether to extend existing tax in order to maintain schools

Check back here Saturday night for precinct-by-precinct results on the citywide school tax.
by Marta Jewson December 5, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Decline and fall: Emperor Jindal as the ancient Romans might have seen him

Our government serves the interests of corporations over common people, much as the Caesars concentrated power within their bloodline alone.
by Brooke Schueller December 5, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

School-tax vote Saturday comes even as some don’t know who controls schools

by Marta Jewson December 4, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Landrieu, Civil Service win ruling that aimed to stop personnel overhaul

Judge decided that because sweeping personnel changes hadn't harmed anyone yet, case was premature.
by Charles Maldonado December 3, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Some schools agree to remove banners encouraging a vote on school tax

Opponents say use of school property and intent of signs violate laws.
by Marta Jewson December 1, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Slavery museum at upriver plantation stirs controversy on both sides of racial divide

Black and white folks alike — some of them skeptics, some of them cynics — seem to be mightily opposed to the idea of a slave museum.
by Eugene Thomas December 1, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Let’s pay more than lip service to citizen participation in the city budget process

Participatory Budgeting is a worldwide movement that needs to be adopted here in New Orleans.
by Keith Twitchell November 26, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Judge takes dim view of election banners on campuses, but they stay for now

No new signs can go up before Monday hearing; social-justice attorney wants them all taken down.
by Marta Jewson November 25, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Orleans Parish School Board finding itself in the unusual role of a salesman

With more charters than ever eligible to return to the board, school officials looking for the best deal.
by Marta Jewson November 21, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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