Letters sent this month are an early step in winding down pandemic programs.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City Council advances resolution to limit campaign contributions from Entergy and utility consultants
Several similar resolutions have been approved since 2006, but this new one adds new restrictions on donations from Entergy employees and extends the restrictions to council candidates who aren’t currently sitting council members.
Posted inCoronavirus
COVID-19 cases in public schools remain low as summer school ends
This is the final weekly update the district will issue for the 2020-21 school year.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City workers from Department of Public Works initiate strike
The strike comes a week after the City Council advanced a proposal to mandate a minimum $15 an hour wage for city contractors, but not for direct city employees
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 133: ‘That’s actually stated in the statute’
No reports on the arrests of witnesses and crime victims, two years after passage of a law requiring them. Council hears about funding for new Entergy substation. And a privately run ICE facility is hit with a complaint for alleged human rights violations.
Posted inSchools
NOLA school district: Dryades YMCA owes hundreds of thousands to school it runs
A district warning letter says that the school is owed more than $1M from its parent organization and ‘other programs.’
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Mandated $15 minimum wage for city contractors speeds toward passage
Advocates and council members say that next, they want to raise wages for city employees and eventually all workers in Orleans Parish.
Posted inCoronavirus
Just three COVID-19 cases in public schools, as summer school winds down
About one-third of the city’s public school students are in summer classes.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Prosecutors failed to report data on arrests of victims and witnesses, despite requirement in state law
Two years after the legislature passed a law requiring DA’s offices to submit annual data on the use of material witness warrants, the reports only started coming in last week.
Posted inCriminal Justice
‘Tantamount to torture’: Complaint alleges inhumane conditions, overuse of solitary confinement at Pine Prairie immigrant detention center
GEO Group, the private prison corporation that runs the facility, denied the allegations.