A think tank conservative and an infectious diseases doctor strongly disagree on the merits of quick reopenings. And David Torkanowsky joins our conversation on the live music blues in New Orleans.
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Language immersion schools anticipated shortages before Trump visa ban
“Widespread negative effects are imminent to both individual schools and entire school systems,” the June 11 memo said.
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City employees cannot ‘engage or respond to negative or disparaging posts’ about city government under new policy
Attorney says the policy appears to be overly broad.
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Inside the ACLU of Louisiana’s plan to bring ‘up to 1,000’ cases challenging racist policing throughout the state
The organization seeks to enlist private law firms to help with the effort.
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State Department of Education releases guidelines on reopening schools
What school actually looks like will depend on how far along the state is in its reopening process.
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Does COVID-19 pose a greater threat to New Orleans culture than Hurricane Katrina?
“Like the rest of the country, New Orleans is suspended in a state of anxious anticipation. This tourism-dependent city is tiptoeing into reopening, with neither a vaccine nor widespread testing. It’s a dilemma facing every municipality, but in a city whose identity, culture and economy are fueled by human interactions, the issue seems particularly fraught here.” Martin Pedersen interviews author and former Lens editor Jed Horne about the tough times ahead.
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President Trump’s visa ban could keep 72 teachers from Louisiana schools
Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans is one of several schools that use foreign teachers in their French curriculum school.
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New state law seeks to fix New Orleans judges’ decades-old conflict of interest on court fines, fees and bail
Criminal justice reform advocates say the law will not solve the underlying problem of the state’s user-funded justice system.
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Breath, voice and the human race
“Nothing saddens or discourages me more in these distressing times than the massive chasm between our experiences as members of this one race — a chasm manifested tragically in the capacity of one member of our race to take away the breath of another member. Even worse, in the evident belief of that person that he had the right to take breath and life away from another person.”
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Racial reckoning at the Ace Hotel, Krewe and other local businesses sparked by Black Lives Matter movement, coronavirus and social media
Former and current workers from the Ace accused the company of using the identities of its Black and LGBTQ employees to sell their brand, while standing idle as employees were harassed and held back over those very same identities.