Calls for town hall meetings.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use, Opinion
Monument fight now part of our heritage — but what to do with those pedestals?
What should replace Gen. Lee? Maybe no one.
Posted inSchools
Coghill teachers end the school year by voting for union representation
The school’s lawyer said negotiations won’t start until the fall.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Defense attorney wants Orleans Parish DA to say if it used fake subpoenas in home invasion case
Attorney Craig Mordock says he hopes other lawyers follow suit.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Investigations
Notices sent to witnesses on North Shore weren’t called subpoenas, but they looked real enough
We reviewed 33 notices sent by prosecutors since 2015. They had the court clerk’s name on them and told people they were “notified … to testify.” DA Warren Montgomery said they were misleading, but he doesn’t believe they were misused. A legal expert called them a sham.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Area schools still leaving non-English speakers in the lurch
Lack of language services violates federal law.
Posted inSchools
82 percent of school-zone lights in New Orleans work now, the most we’ve seen
There was a big improvement last fall when the city announced an expansion of traffic enforcement cameras.
Posted inCriminal Justice
The Lens sues District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro to force him to turn over fake subpoenas
His office has told us it doesn’t know how often they were used, and it’s too hard to look.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Orleans Parish DA sued over refusal to turn over witness subpoenas, real and fake
The DA told the MacArthur Justice Center so-called “DA subpoenas” could be found in court records. The fake ones aren’t there.
Posted inSchools
Superintendent says closing Mahalia Jackson would return building to its original use: a community center
Henderson Lewis Jr. has said the school should be closed because of under-enrollment. Wednesday night, he focused on the building.