The feds threaten to withhold $2.2 billion from the massive effort to save and restore the state’s diminishing coastline if leaders don’t act soon.
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 255: ‘Civil rights at risk’
Delaney Dryfoos on a wharf redevelopment in the Lower 9th Ward. Marta Jewson on Louisiana AG’s decision to join a lawsuit targeting transgender men and women, and broader civil rights.
Posted inHealth
‘We’re still here’
Planned Parenthood exhibit opens today, looks at 40-year, often embattled, presence in Louisiana
Posted inOpinion
Promises Unfulfilled: The Politics of School Choice
Amid questioning from parents who cannot find good schools to enroll in, school-choice advocates need to find more and more avenues to advance their mantra, to hold on to it.
Posted inEnvironment
Grain Terminal in the Lower 9: ‘It’s not going to be good for us.’
The Port of New Orleans plans to “revitalize” the Alabo Street Wharf into a terminal for organic grain. Neighbors in Holy Cross are concerned about grain dust, pests, rodents and a steady line of railcars passing right outside their doors.
Posted inOpinion
Stepping up for New Orleans workers, on Tuesday’s ballot
“People tell me they’re tired of working for minimum wage and not being able to afford the basics. Elected officials beg for their votes, promising this-and-that, and then disappear to serve the interests of the powerful.”
Posted inSchools
Louisiana AG sues feds to undo longstanding disability protections
Because of objections to a federal rule protecting gender dysphoria, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has joined a multi-state lawsuit seeking to invalidate Section 504, the disability law best known for providing support for public school students.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Louisiana may be forced to change how it allots welfare money
A proposed Biden-administration regulation change could bar the state from using federal dollars for child-protective investigations, controversial crisis pregnancy centers, and reduce the amount to pre-K.
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Behind The Lens episode 254: ‘It’s scary, dangerous’
Marta Jewson and La’Shance Perry on their interview with a women about what it’s like to be pregnant in Louisiana after the fall of Roe. Delaney Dryfoos on St. James residents’ fight against industry.
Posted inEnvironment
Lead pipes, another New Orleans legacy
As the federal government announces a rule to eliminate all lead pipes within the next decade, tests by the Water Collaborative found lead within drinking water at 88% of New Orleans homes tested.
