If you exercise your right to view government records, should you get sued? This woman was.
A volunteer reporter was sued for asking the city of Tallulah for records of its spending.
State audit says DeSoto DA pulled money from other agencies through ‘traffic diversion’ programs
The audit confirms The Lens' findings about the effect of the programs, which allow DAs to keep fines in exchange for dropping traffic tickets.
Week in Review: Entergy’s $1.3 million power plant campaign; more fake subpoenas; climate change and New Orleans
Audio: As the city addresses flooding, residents take matters into their own hands
Audio: Coastal erosion threatens the levees that protect the city
Experts say New Orleans officials need to need to come to terms with what it means to be a coastal city.
Audio: In New Orleans, aging water system causes school closures
Audio: Rising temperatures strain New Orleans’ electric grid
In Louisiana, temperatures could increase by ten degrees by the end of the century.
Remembering Felicia Kahn: A relentless fighter who made a difference
Wide awake to injustice before anyone was 'woke.'
How Entergy spent $1.3 million to polish its reputation, script support and monitor opposition to its new power plant
We know about the scheme to pay people to show up at meetings to support a new natural gas plant in New Orleans. But that was just a fraction of more than a million dollars the utility spent to burnish Entergy’s reputation, script support and monitor opponents.
Councilwoman Nguyen’s nonprofit, two advisers to Cantrell worked on Entergy’s campaign for new power plant
Cantrell’s spokesman said she knew about the relationship, but “on this and on every other issue — Mayor Cantrell thinks for herself.”
