Federal regulators must make sure the diversion won’t violate 82 laws and executive orders.
Posted inAudio, Environment, Investigations
Reclaiming native ground: Can Louisiana’s tribes restore their traditional diets as waters rise?
Native Americans are losing their ability to live off the land as it has crumbled into the Gulf of Mexico. Some of them are trying to figure out how to survive on what’s left. A multimedia collaboration between the Food & Environment Reporting Network, Gravy, and The Lens.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Time to toss non-unanimous jury verdicts, a vestige of Jim Crow
Louisiana is one of two states that tolerate this unjust legal shortcut.
Posted inOpinion
Where’s Gottschalk? It’s time to plug a gaping hole in the LPO repertoire
Why does Prieto ignore New Orleans’ most revered classical composer?
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Some opposition to Trump goes unanswered, literally, by Louisiana’s senators
Constituents are frustrated that they can’t say their piece about the president’s appointees and executive orders.
Posted inEvents, Inside the News Room
News ‘n’ Brews, an informal happy hour with Lens reporters, is Feb. 16
News ‘n’ Brews is now a regular Lens event. Join Lens reporters and editors at Midway Pizza Thursday, Feb. 16 at 5 p.m to talk about the current events that matter most to you and our city. Thanks to the generosity of our event sponsor, Midway Pizza, light refreshments will be served. There will be a cash bar. We […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Immigrant rights group says Orleans sheriff has pledged not to jail people accused of violating immigration law
Since 2013, Sheriff Marlin Gusman has refused to honor most requests by federal agents to detain illegal immigrants.
Posted inSchools
National labor board rules that two charter schools in New Orleans can be unionized
International High School and Lusher Charter School argued labor-relations law didn’t apply to them.
Posted inSchools
New Orleans’ last two traditional public high schools have another suitor: InspireNOLA
ExCEED Network is new, but it has the support of the school principals. InspireNOLA has three other schools.
Posted inSchools
Plans are underway to convert New Orleans’ five remaining traditional schools to charters
A new charter organization called the ExCEED Network has filed applications to take control of the schools. The Orleans Parish superintendent has advocated transforming the schools and has spoken at meetings held by the founding principals of the charter network.