Year: 2014
Civil Service vote to reinstate McCabe may have violated Open Meetings Law
The commission went into an impromptu executive session and emerged after coming to an agreement.
Sinking levee shows difficulty of protecting New Orleans from flooding
Parts of a 1.1-mile stretch of levee along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway have sunk six inches since it was built. Repairs will cost $1 million. Officials say subsidence is inevitable, and it’s impossible to predict where it will happen.
Wilson School directors shell out $400,000 to sever all ties with for-profit manager
Irregularities in the school’s bookkeeping fed dissatisfaction with EdisonLearning, but the settlement agreement casts no blame.
When was Carnival’s golden age? Take a look around — we’re living in it
Carnival is more broadly participatory than ever, and its downtown culmination on Fat Tuesday is a public art form unique to New Orleans.
State unemployment rate has continued to drop since mid-summer upsurge
Oil and gas plus petrochemical investments have powered job growth in Louisiana.
Third-grader struck by passing car after getting off school bus
It happened the day after Shaud Wilson was killed by a car as he ran across the street to his bus stop.
Orleans Parish assessor questions private status of three Uptown streets
Rosa Park, Dunleith Court and Richmond Place are posted with “private street” signs. But the properties aren’t taxed. Assessor Erroll Williams says something has to change: They may be public if the city has maintained them, or someone will have to start paying taxes.
Seven buildings would be demolished as CVS plan migrates to Elysian Fields at Claiborne
The previous plan, to put the pharmacy on St. Claude Avenue in Marigny, drew fierce neighborhood opposition.
Children wait for school buses along some of New Orleans’ busiest thoroughfares
Six-year-old Shaud Wilson was killed last week trying to cross Paris Avenue to get to his bus stop. Around New Orleans, it's not uncommon for children to wait for their buses along multi-lane roads, including some of the city's busiest streets.
