Prison disposed of expired drug that was to be used March 7, and drug maker prohibits new sales for executions.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Posted inSchools
You want local, elected school boards? Charter-based voting would do it
Other states are pioneering different ways of bringing electoral control to charter school management. Would they work here?
Posted inCharter Schools
Citizens Committee for Education releases Jan. 6 board meeting agenda
The board oversees Home A. Plessy Community School.
Posted inLand Use
Appeals court orders city to remove fence blocking Newcomb Boulevard
The ruling ends a years-long battle over the illegal closure of an Uptown street.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Michael Bagneris raises $220,000 in bid to replace Mayor Mitch Landrieu
But Landrieu still has more than $1 million to spend.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Despite public funding, NOLA for Life Fund grantmaking to continue in private
Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration says that it controls the source of its NOLA for Life Fund money, which it hands off to a private foundation to disburse. The Landrieu administration says the grantmaking doesn’t have to occur in public, but other nonprofits have been told they must let the public observe discussions about spending taxpayer dollars.