Holiday giveaway brings hope to Tremé amid immigration fears
“When I saw the brother Jamar (McNeely) giving out turkeys and hams, I said, ‘Let me bring the vegetables,’” said DeLance Vanderhorst of Healthier NOLA.
Year: 2025
An Oil Well in Reverse: Smitty’s hopes to inject liquid waste into a landfill in Jefferson Parish
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality allows the operator of Smitty’s to dump pollutants from its recent explosion deep into a Jefferson Parish landfill. Plus, NOLA Public Schools improves, getting a B from the state.
Compare 2025 school performance scores for New Orleans charters
As a district, NOLA Public Schools improved from a C to a B. The move up appears to be driven by a jump in A-rated schools in the city.
Kicking the Can: SNAP during the shutdown and charter schools await their fate
The shutdown is over, how did the state do in protecting its most vulnerable. And charters await their fate with state evaluations.
Oily waste from Smitty’s Supply disaster sent to Jefferson Parish landfill
Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch
States’ death penalty policies are heading in sharply different directions
Forty-one people have been executed so far this year, the highest number since 2012.
This Ecologist Lost Her Grant for Studying Diversity—of Insects
The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch at Louisiana Tech University.
“A Fundamental Reset”
Fossil fuel companies rebrand as "energy" producers. Also construction of a new LNG terminal is halted by a federal judge.
Louisiana will cover most SNAP recipients for November; Landry points the remaining 53k to food banks
Gov. Jeff Landry said his health department will find the money to cover $147 million in benefits next month for the elderly, disabled and children.
When a parent goes to prison, a child pays the price
Louisiana spends too much of its budget on criminal justice while ranking low in healthcare, education, infrastructure, and economic wellbeing. We could redirect those resources.
