At hospitals and on the curb, pandemic leads to more medical waste
How waste contractors are dealing with heavier, more hazardous loads.
More than a year before his contract ends, school board may consider extension for NOLA Public Schools Superintendent, members say
Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr.’s contract expires next summer. The board may also consider changes to his performance metrics, given the pandemic.
After expanded testing, New Orleans jail sees spike in confirmed coronavirus cases
Orleans Sheriff’s Office has no plans to move patients to Camp J at Angola as other local jails have.
Convention Center to consider $1 million donation to worker relief aid at Wednesday meeting after demands for $100 million
Coalition of unions, advocates plans to continue pressure campaign for greater relief
Federal appeals court affirms denial of immunity for prosecutors who used fake subpoenas
Judges said that the DA's office may still prevail with an immunity defense, but they did not agree with the arguments they presented.
New Orleans public schools will finish the year remotely, return circumstances unknown
The district also shared an initial financial forecast.
City tries to get in line with new federal leave policies
A Cantrell Administration memo from last week includes similar guidelines for employee leave, following rules set out by new federal law.
Grappling with meaning, 10 years after Macondo
Ten years after the the devastation of BP's Deepwater Horizon platform, survivor Leo Lindner writes on the loss of his friends, misconceptions of the disaster, and the mistake of putting profits over people.
The path to reopening: More testing, contact tracing needed to safely restart the state
The governor hopes to begin the reopening process soon, but the state says it still needs hundreds of workers to implement a contact tracing program.
Survey: Schools throughout the state now offering distance learning, but many lack resources
Several New Orleans charter schools ask the state for more support.
