This week on Behind The Lens, a project to install lead and microbe water filters at local schools has run into a problem: insufficient water pressure.

Also, Mayor LaToya Cantrell was in Baton Rouge this week to broker a deal on a series of bills that would send more money to the city for infrastructure repairs. One of those bills deals with a tax increase on short-term rentals. Michael Isaac Stein has the details.

And a major shakeup for local news in southeast Louisiana: owners of The Advocate have purchased NOLA.com/The Times Picayune. We check in with veteran journalist and Lens Opinion Editor Jed Horne about what this means for journalism in New Orleans.

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