The researcher whose work was used in NOLA for Life, Chicago “heat list” is involved in developing the new program for Cantrell’s violence reduction task force. Task force members hope the list will be used to direct residents to social services, not police.
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State environmental agency investigating asbestos contamination at New Orleans school
State officials say construction work was performed according to asbestos safety plan. If that’s the case, a DEQ official says, the asbestos release shouldn’t have happened.
Posted inOpinion
Healing Center infuses Halloween with deeper Haitian and Mexican attitudes toward death
This is the time of year when the veil between the dead and living is believed thinnest.
Posted inInside the News Room
The Lens’ Week in Review: Asbestos clean-up at another Orleans Parish school
Asbestos at the Rosenwald school building, another delay in the Entergy astroturfing investigation and a column on the unanimous jury amendment. Plus a new episode of our podcast Behind The Lens.
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Behind The Lens episode 3: ‘This is not even an economic study’
Michael Isaac Stein on an economic impact study from UNO. Marta Jewson on asbestos in New Orleans school buildings. And IPNO’s Jee Park on non-unanimous juries in Louisiana. Hosted by Tom Wright.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Louisiana voters: Problems at the polls? Report them to Electionland
Once again, The Lens is partnering with ProPublica’s Electionland coalition to report on long lines, registration problems and other issues that prevent eligible voters from casting a ballot. We need your help.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
In rare bipartisan accord, lawmakers backed abolishing split-jury verdicts; now it’s up to voters
Time to end Jim Crow’s last stand in Louisiana law.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Entergy investigation is delayed for a second time
The new deadline for the investigation into the use of paid actors at City Council meetings is Nov. 2, nearly two months after the original deadline.
Posted inSchools
New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many
Even as net prices begin to fall at some schools, many families are priced out.
Posted inSchools
Asbestos clean-up announced at another Orleans Parish school
Rosenwald was the second school to relocate this summer due to asbestos concerns.