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Privatize the Sewerage & Water Board? Hell no: Abolish it

Flood fiasco shows need for voter oversight.
by Jacques Morial August 16, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Steve Beatty departs The Lens; board seeks leader for investigative newsroom

We will continue our watchdog reporting.
by Steve Myers August 15, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

School lights are flashing again, though some students have been in class for weeks

Charters have different starting dates, but the city picks one day to turn on all the lights.
by Marta Jewson August 14, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Time to recognize the basic flaw in our whole approach to flood prevention

How many wake-up calls do we need before we go Dutch?
by Jed Horne August 11, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Principals file paperwork to convert Ben Franklin, Bethune elementary schools to charters

New Orleans could again be on its way to becoming the first city in the country with only charter schools.
by Marta Jewson August 9, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Flooding is expected to get worse in St. Tammany Parish. How can communities adapt?

With the help of a $40 million federal grant, residents of six parishes in southeastern Louisiana have been talking about how their communities could be redesigned to deal with increased flooding. The plans are meant to complement the state’s expectations that thousands of homes will have be elevated, and some bought out, in the coming decades.
by Della Hasselle August 9, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Orleans, Jefferson DAs face ethics complaints for prosecutors’ use of fake subpoenas

The Southern Poverty Law Center filed the complaint today with the state agency that disciplines attorneys.
by Charles Maldonado August 3, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Woman convicted in school board bribery scheme is now director of outreach at Collegiate Academies

Federal prosecutors said bribes for Stacy Martin’s mother, then a school board member, went into her daughter’s account.
by Marta Jewson August 2, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

A drug epidemic like no other — as politicians try to strip us of resources to fight back

Historically unprecedented: Drug deaths now exceed homicides in New Orleans.
by Else Pedersen August 2, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

What’s left of Booker T. Washington High School has been taken off National Register of Historic Places

Most of the school was demolished, and the remaining auditorium is not significant enough on its own.
by Marta Jewson July 28, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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