A French Quarter sales tax has funded State Police patrols for several years. But the city wants to end that agreement, instead using the tax for supplemental NOPD and civilian patrols.
Read interviews with the candidates and search through their campaign contributions.
More than 20 candidates are competing for seven Orleans Parish School Board seats. Find out who is financing their campaigns.
The full board is set to meet on Thursday.
In a departure from prior appointments, the council only considered one of three nominees in a public meeting, apparently reaching a 'consensus' in private. That could violate state sunshine laws.
I was so busy telling myself how not racist I was that I wasn’t paying attention to my own behavior and recognizing myself in the discussions of racial bias in America.
Material witness warrants and DA candidates. Sidney Torres and Civil District Court. And the possible end of a five-year-old consent decree over the city's schools.
Transmissions connected to schools in the city appear to remain low. The total number of “active cases” in the district is the same as last week.
