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The Donald Trump you saw campaigning for the past year really didn’t get elected 

Relax. Cheer up. It didn’t really happen. America — today’s America — would never elect an overt racist, a xenophobe and a misogynist as president.
by Jed Horne November 9, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

How did your neighbors vote in the presidential and U.S. Senate races? See on our election map.

No one else has this level of detail on the races.
by Steve Myers November 8, 2016 Updated November 8, 2016

Election Day 2016 peculiarities and irregularities in the New Orleans area

Our staff is collecting and catching up with any unusual reports today from the polls.
by The Editors November 8, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Many New Orleans voters are still driving farther to vote than before Katrina

Many polling places were flooded by the storm, so elections officials consolidated them. Ten years later, many of us are still driving farther to vote than we did before the storm. The average distance to a voting location in the core of the city has increased 50 percent since 2004.
by Charles Maldonado November 8, 2016 Updated December 16, 2019

Lens and Ukrainian journalists trade tips on reporting stories, using public records

The Lens' Charles Maldonado and Karen Gadbois traveled to Ukraine to discussed The Lens' work.
by Marta Jewson November 5, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Our November Newsmaker event will focus on the environment

Join us on Nov. 17 to ask questions and learn more.
by Anne Mueller November 4, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

“The nutria did it!” and four other reasons lawmakers are letting Big Oil off the hook

Committee members attack the governor, rather than the problem.
by Anne Rolfes November 4, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Southeast Louisiana swings from August’s floods to October’s drought

Scientists have predicted that climate change would cause wild swings like this.
by Bob Marshall November 3, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

River diversions to rebuild the coast may not be as water-hungry as we thought

It’s the second recent finding showing how engineers could reduce harm to fisheries.
by Bob Marshall October 31, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Whole-house rentals got you down? Get hip to ‘creative disruption’!

Maybe an absentee landlord will let me rent my former home on weekdays.
by C.W. Cannon October 30, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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