Here it comes again this year: a birthday parade for Martin Luther King Jr. that returns to its traditional route: St. Claude Avenue, starting at 11 a.m. today (Saturday, January 13). The parade’s announcement came late from organizers at Friends of King School District, who finally resolved parade-permit security a few days ago, after being […]
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Behind The Lens episode 226: ‘The means to fight this’
Nick Chrastil on the federal consent decree guiding the jail’s construction of a facility called Phase III. Terry Jones from Floodlight on carbon capture and sequestration in the state.
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How Phase III came to be
Though they once applauded the jail’s ambitious, federally overseen reforms, community groups and political leaders in New Orleans united in opposition to a key mandate stemming from those efforts: the construction of a $109 million mental health jail.
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‘Auld Len Synes’ – Top 2023 stories
In the 7th Ward, the Buttermilk Drop – one of the city’s top picks for home-delivery breakfasts – scrambled to pay its December bills, after a hacker switched banking information linked to the bakery’s Uber Eats account. In September, four months after the death of Calvin Cains III at the hands of Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s […]
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Behind The Lens episode 225: ‘If there’s an accident, it’d be hard to evacuate’ ‘
Delaney Dryfoos on new land growing along Louisiana’s coast. Sara Sneath on Venture Global’s tax incentives in Plaquemines Parish and parallels to the mining town of Port Sulphur.
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Behind The Lens episode 224: ‘Holding power to account’
Delaney Dryfoos on St. John Parish’s President cutting off advocate Joy Banner during public comment. Now, she’s suing for the violation of her First Amendment rights. A judge again barred the parish from changing the zoning on the Greenfield Property.
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Public outcry against carbon capture in Louisiana growing
Some activists worry that the daytime state task force hearings in Baton Rouge on the issue are missing important voices from affected Black communities
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Mississippi River and its mayors step onto international climate stage, at COP28
Using federal data on the damage costs of natural disasters, the coalition of mayors, reports a $246 billion loss throughout the Mississippi River basin in less than two decades.