Sandra Stokes remembers her friend Bill Borah, whose classic book on preservationists’ fight to stop the expressway project was recently republished.
Corporate wealth or the truth
The Advocate’s editorial board “welcomes” petrochemical plants, even as its reporters show how dangerous that attitude has been.
Behind The Lens episode 60: ‘I think a lot of people assumed that this was a fix for special education, and it wasn’t quite that’
An in-depth report on the state of special education in New Orleans, and how downsizing Convention Center Boulevard could impact traffic through the Warehouse District.
Convention Center general manager, Michael Sawaya, sued for violation of public records law
“The public records law means what it says — if the people want to review records of government spending or how decisions are made in positions of public trust those records have to be turned over in a timely fashion,” Scott Sternberg, McKay’s attorney, said.
The most serious threat to abortion rights right now is a Louisiana law – and it’s heading to the Supreme Court
Recently the ACLU of Louisiana filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights challenging a law that would decimate access to abortion in Louisiana. The stakes could not be higher.
‘It will be a mess:’ Traffic headaches from Convention Center Blvd. not expected to go away when construction ends
A plan from three years ago to fix the increased traffic from the lane reduction on Convention Center Boulevard has gone nowhere.
Five years after settlement in citywide special education suit, some New Orleans families still struggle for services
In 2010, after struggling to find accommodations for her son, Kelly Fischer joined other New Orleans parents in a class-action suit. Some parents are still fighting similar battles.
Entergy sues the City Council over lower profit rate and $1 million fine
Company wants to overturn recently passed resolution setting electric and gas rates for the city.
The taking of our New Orleans riverfront
Our riverfront is for all, not just for tourists queued up to ride a riverboat and for one company’s profits.
Six charter groups apply to run Craig and Coghill schools; four of them no longer in the running
The nonprofits that run Joseph A. Craig Charter School and Mary D. Coghill Charter School are likely to lose their charters at the end of the year.