The state’s highest court decides whether or not to review the appeals court decision.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Entergy investigators: Company knew or should have known about paid actors at council meetings
“If Hawthorn can get more people I will pay,” Charles Rice wrote in October 2017, weeks before a utility committee meeting.
Posted inInside the News Room
Week in Review: Mayor works on tool to identify ‘high-risk’ residents
Some wonder whether the information will end up in the hands of the police.
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 4: ‘This buys you some time to move away’
Columnist Peter Horjus on Amendment 6, a proposal on the Nov. 6 ballot. Marta Jewson talks about asbestos in New Orleans schools. And Michael Isaac Stein has the latest on a new anti-violence initiative.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Proposition 6 is deeply flawed: Hold your nose and vote for it anyway
Phased-in revaluations would still allow huge jumps in tax assessments.
Posted inSchools
Facing closure, two F-rated Algiers charter schools move in together
The move comes after the school district halted enrollment at William J. Fischer Academy and McDonogh 32 Charter School. The schools aren’t expected to make the C letter grade required for charter renewal.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Months after end of ‘predictive policing’ contract, Cantrell administration works on new tool to ID ‘high-risk’ residents
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.
Posted inSchools
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.