Delaney Dryfoos on the sale of Entergy New Orleans' natural gas arm to a new entity and La'Shance Perry on the legal challenge to Act 246, the nation's strongest law blocking certain reproductive healthcare.
To assist physicians and patients, the NOHD announces the launch of a map of Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, which pinpoints pharmacies that are stocked with the controlled substance misoprostol.
“We have much work to do,” Hunter writes, “to ensure that an anti-terrorist component is part of the planning process for every special event that attracts thousands – Mardi Gras, festivals and holiday celebrations, even our Sunday second-line parades.”
The leader of the governor’s temporary shelter says they are fully staffed and genuinely ready to move people into permanent housing. But it is several miles from the Superdome and is seen by critics as a way to warehouse homeless people away from Super Bowl crowds.
The Descendants Project sues, contending that public officials had no right to forgive Greenfield’s grain-elevator-project debts.
The author, who is also associate editor for the Angolite magazine, won an honorable mention for this essay in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
This poem received second prize for poetry in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
"I keep paper and pen with me at all times because, like the most dynamic dreams, creativity is as wispy as Louisiana mist and dissipates quickly if not seized,” writes John Corley, associate editor of the Angolite, who says that, in his mind, he still lives in 1989, ‘the year I fell.’
This story was awarded the top PEN Prison Writing Award for fiction.
"I am not a person who came to prison and became a writer, I am a writer who happened to come to prison."
