Week in Review: Super Bowl 2024; Are “super-natives” loving the city to death?
Reporter Charles Maldonado received an award for his investigation into fake subpoenas.
Anxiety and authenticity: Are ‘super-natives’ loving New Orleans to death?
One irony: STRs are gutting the neighborhoods tourists want to stay in.
School board, city in talks about diverted property taxes
City may have improperly used millions in special taxes to satisfy state pension obligations.
Responding to parents, Orleans Parish school district agrees to run Cypress Academy for two years
If the school closes after the 2019-20 school year, students would get priority in the citywide enrollment lottery.
City of New Orleans promises $800,000 in local tax rebates to host 2024 Super Bowl
It has also pledged police protection and zones where only NFL-sanctioned commercial activity will be allowed.
Personalized learning: The little-noticed educational experiment in New Orleans schools
Personalized learning is transforming schools in the Crescent City, but what does that mean for students? Some educators support the philosophy but worry it’s causing kids to spend too much time learning alone in front of a screen.
It’s not enough to ban fakery at Council hearings; we need a real Community Participation Program
A way to generate citizen involvement and grassroots power
Lens’ exposé of astroturfing campaign spurs city inquiry and gains national attention
Our investigation into the paid actor scandal is now the most-read story in The Lens' history.
Council freezes most common type of short-term rental licenses in residential neighborhoods
It’s the first major rollback of the year-old law that legalized and regulated rentals via services like Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway.
New Orleans City Council opens investigation into campaign to pay actors to support power plant
The investigation will "dig as deep as humanly possible" into the astroturfing campaign, said Council President Jason Williams.
