Cohen High prepares for move to Harney, now ‘swing-space’
Cohen will occupy the Central City campus for two to three years while a new high school is constructed at its current site.
Week in Review: 87 Kennedy High School seniors found to be ineligible to graduate — a month after graduation
Plus, a woman takes drastic steps to stop an allegedly illegal short-term rental in her neighborhood. A mysterious surveillance camera in Lakeview. And a new episode of Behind The Lens.
Behind The Lens episode 37: ‘Once fresh water gets in’
Marta Jewson on lead filters in New Orleans schools. Michael Isaac Stein on Entergy regulation. And host and producer Jessica Rosgaard interviews Waveland Mayor Mike Smith about the Bonnet Carre Spillway and its impact on the coast.
Review finds that nearly half of Kennedy High School’s 2019 seniors were not eligible for graduation
Most of the students had been allowed to walk at graduation. 24 will have to return to complete high school in the fall, board president says.
Police found surveillance cameras with NOPD logos mounted to a Lakeview light pole. They weren’t the city’s. But they were near a house connected to a city crime-camera contractor.
Active Solutions COO Jeff Burkhardt denied that he purchased or owned the cameras, calling a reporter’s questions “fake news.” Less than 24 hours after The Lens called him, the cameras were gone.
City curfew marginalizes kids it pretends to ‘protect’
There are better uses for the money a curfew costs to enforce
City Council announces steps to reduce reliance on outside consultants for Entergy regulation
The plan will double in-house staff and restructure advisers' contracts.
Frustrated with city enforcement, this woman rented the Airbnb across the street just to prove it was operating illegally
The New Orleans City Council has worked toward more restrictive regulations on short-term rentals for the past year. Now council members want to tighten enforcement.
Week in Review: City Council Entergy plant votes violated state sunshine law, judge rules
Behind The Lens episode 36: ‘No, I don’t have my diploma yet’
We hear from a Kennedy High School senior who still doesn't know if she graduated. Plus, a plan for ending cash bail. And a new budget crisis for public defenders in New Orleans.
