Cloud of secrecy shrouds Port transaction.
Posted inInside the News Room
Week in Review: Low water pressure adding to delays in school lead filter project
Plus, short-term rentals and Mayor Cantrell’s infrastructure deal. A GiveNOLA Day reminder. And a new episode of Behind The Lens.
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 30: One-newspaper town
Marta Jewson on lead filters in New Orleans public schools. Michael Isaac Stein on how short-term rentals figure into Mayor Cantrell’s infrastructure deal. And Jed Horne talks about The Advocate’s purchase of The Times-Picayune.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Cantrell administration predicting increase in short-term rental sales as part of infrastructure deal
STR sales continue to increase in spite of yearlong freeze on whole-home rentals.
Posted inOpinion
Merger ends a newspaper war, but the bloodletting may not be over
Absentee owners proved inadequate to the challenge.
Posted inSchools
Lead-removal filter project drags on as school district deals with water pressure
More than half of schools with water filters have at least some that are not working. The district has known about low water pressure problems since September.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Council committee backs RTA decision to stop tourism industry revenue sharing
Council resolution calls for return of $32 million the convention center has collected from the transit agency.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Events
Join us May 7 to learn how to find public records related to criminal justice
Have you ever wondered how Louisiana’s public records laws work? On Tuesday, May 7, Lens editor Charles Maldonado will be joined by criminal justice reporter Samantha Sunne and attorney Scott Sternberg to explain how you can use public records to hold government agencies accountable and how to access those records. We will focus on criminal […]
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Q: When is a bridge not a bridge? A: When Jesuit High says so
Question: When is a bridge not a bridge? Answer: When it proves more expedient to call it by some other name. Jesuit High School wants to build a thing over Banks Street. It’s a bridge, and they called it a bridge until they didn’t. When they ran into unexpected opposition, they decided it wasn’t to […]
Posted inInside the News Room
Week in Review: Cantrell unrepentant over unannounced traffic camera changes
Cantrell unrepentant over unannounced traffic camera changes New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell and her top deputy, Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montaño, went before the City Council’s budget committee on Monday morning to defend the administration’s decision not to inform the public that it was lowering speed thresholds for traffic camera tickets. Cantrell said she made […]