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Posted inSchools

Students at school slated for closure face yet another hurdle: no bathrooms

Plumbing contractors were digging up Edgar P. Harney elementary school’s lush front lawn on Willow Street Tuesday afternoon while a portable toilet trailer sat on the school’s blacktop playground along busy Claiborne Avenue. “The bathrooms aren’t working,” one of the workers told The Lens. A clogged sewer line was initially to blame. But when contractors […]

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Week in Review: How have the City Council’s utility consultants kept their contracts for so long?

Council utility consultants responding to questions from the City Council at a Feb. 21, 2019 meeting. In 1985, New Orleans residents decided that New Orleans Public Service Inc. — now called Entergy New Orleans — should be regulated by the City Council rather than the state’s Public Service Commission, which had overseen the utility for […]