This week on Behind The Lens, Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s proposed city budget for 2022 is approved by the New Orleans City Council — with a few modifications. 

An appeals court threw out a state judge’s order to release longtime Angola prisoner Bobby Sneed, prompting a lawsuit against the parole board.

And early childhood education in New Orleans could be vastly expanded if a new proposed property tax is approved.

Our guests this week are reporters Michael Isaac Stein, Marta Jewson and Nicholas Chrastil and editor Charles Maldonado.

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Carolyne Heldman has been in media for 35 years, most recently as Executive Director at an NPR member station in Colorado where she was responsible for new multi-platform content initiatives, strategic...