New Orleans emerges as the nation’s boldest experiment in school innovation.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations
Inspector General’s Office, two city officials under Ethics Board investigation
The Office of Inspector General and two top New Orleans officials are under an Ethics Review Board investigation after a city employee alleged they conspired to discredit her. Parking Administrator Zepporiah Edmonds said believes the officials retaliated against her for complaining about what she saw as a contract-steering scheme.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
See where Edwards beat Vitter with our statewide vote results map
Our expanded map features statewide, legislative and selected local races. New for the general election: precinct-level results for Jefferson, St. Tammany, East Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Caddo parishes. And, of course, Orleans.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Nostalgia undermines struggle to make so-so schools truly excellent
What the older generation remembers from their own school days is increasingly irrelevant to a changing world.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Fact-check: Edwards’ campaign ad about Vitter vote and prostitute call is mostly true
Though it doesn’t quite back up its implication that Vitter missed the vote because of the call.
Posted inEvents
Morning fill-up: conversation, coffee and cake
Come by our office Thursday morning for a cup of coffee.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
A judge’s lie obscures a deeper truth about the New Orleans region
The shifting balance between suburbs and the city provides an opportunity for regional thinking.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Neighbors seeking to create another, less-dense zoning category
Development company says it’s worked for two years with another group to reach consensus.
Posted inEnvironment
BP settlement brings unprecedented money to coastal restoration efforts
Provisions in federal law and the $20.8 billion court agreement say that most of Louisiana’s expected $8 billion influx has to be spent on restoration of environment. That allays long-held fears the big payday would set off a feeding frenzy among politicians for projects unrelated to the coast.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Mayor pledges $7 million to expand city’s juvenile-detention center by 2018
Effort is aimed at getting those younger than 18 out of the Orleans Parish Prison.