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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.
by Barry Yeoman February 9, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Time to toss non-unanimous jury verdicts, a vestige of Jim Crow

Louisiana is one of two states that tolerate this unjust legal shortcut.
by William Snowden February 9, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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?
by Frederick Starr February 6, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Charles Maldonado February 6, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

News ‘n’ Brews, an informal happy hour with Lens reporters, is Feb. 16

by Anne Mueller February 3, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Charles Maldonado February 2, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Marta Jewson February 1, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Marta Jewson January 30, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Marta Jewson January 26, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

State coastal agency says midyear budget cuts could delay restoration projects

The agency says it may not have the required match for joint projects with the federal government.
by Bob Marshall January 25, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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