Employees got supplements meant for law enforcement personnel even if their jobs involved little, if any, law enforcement.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Taxes vs. Tulane scholarships: Towards a more equitable way to deal with exemptions
Raise city taxes? How about collecting some of the taxes we currently forego?
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Too young to take custody of his son, but old enough to be tried as an adult?
Teens join governor on Capitol steps in fight to pass ‘Raise the Age’ bill.
Posted inEnvironment
Here’s a FEMA map that actually delivers good news for New Orleans
Green will become the favorite color for thousands of New Orleans property owners when the new FEMA flood maps finally become official at the end of the month. That’s because it codes areas that will move out of flood zones and into areas with no insurance requirements – and the new map shows it washing over large sections of the city.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Repeat offender suspected as shots ring out at a drug market yards from school
Neighborhood bedeviled by Criminal Court’s revolving door.
Posted inInside the News Room
Lens enters seventh year of operation; announces expanded board of directors
Annual event is one more way we work to engage with the community we serve.
Posted inEnvironment
Raft of bills seeks to remove protections for dedicated coastal-restoration money
Coastal advocates say shifting money now would be short-sighted and damage the state’s national efforts.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Circle the Superdome! Fight to save New Orleans before we’re auctioned into oblivion
Don’t take our rich culture for granted; instead, take a stand on Wednesday.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Ruling for The Lens, judge orders city to release its full purchasing database
City was resisting because it said sloppy record keeping meant private information could be exposed.
Posted inInvestigations, Schools
ReNEW leaders, including current CEO, sat on special-ed complaints
ReNEW Schools’ top administrators and current CEO knew about unethical and possibly illegal special-education practices at one of their charter schools months before alerting the state Department of Education, newly released documents show. Current CEO Colleen Mackay received a four-page laundry list of misdeeds and questionable actions on Jan. 31, 2015, when she served as […]