This summer’s “dead zone,” a low-oxygen area where the river empties into the sea, could span 5,827 square miles across the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana has the power to call for change.
One year away from a federal deadline to reduce nutrient runoff into the Gulf of Mexico by 20%, increases in tile drainage, livestock and fertilizer use have made success unlikely.
It took several months and a lawsuit, but a judge agreed that legal contracts are public records.
The Juneteenth holiday serves as a reminder that the City Council should wait no longer to finish the street renaming it began four years ago.
The historical and ongoing struggle for civil rights have been expressed through music in New Orleans. So it seems only right that music is the driving force behind several local Juneteenth commemorations.
A therapeutic program run by ReNEW will enroll some of the center’s students, but can’t offer the same hospital-level care. That leaves some students without a school that can address their severe behavioral needs.
Special guest writer Lolis Eric Elie on local civil rights pioneers who are being to replace the current street names, including his father, Lolis Edward Elie.
As groups try to influence a federal decision, Louisiana fishers squeezed by current LNG exports call for an end to expansion.
After a teacher held him by his hair, a 13-year-old child was punched by a classmate and suffered a concussion. The teacher had been arrested for a similar classroom incident nine years ago in another parish.
