Mayor holds annual events to solicit opinions on how to spend taxpayer money for the coming year.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Live blog: Mayor Landrieu kicks off annual town hall meetings on city finances
He’ll be in Gentilly at 6 p.m. Monday. Follow along here.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Friday budget meeting with sheriff offers preview of next week’s citizen meetings
As is his custom, Mayor Mitch Landrieu to seek budget input from hearings in each council district.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
BP settlement: Tens of millions for lawyers, not nearly enough for the coast
Why did BP’s stock rise after the settlement was reached: payments are low and slow — except to lawyers.
Posted inSchools
Public works boss says department fixes school lights when public complains
Presentation to council follows two citywide surveys of warning signs by The Lens.
Posted inEnvironment
Water and subsidence: “You can’t manage what you don’t measure”
New Orleans leaders long believed that the city’s safety lay in draining the soggy mud sponge it was built on. But as it drained, it also shrank, pulling most of the city below sea level. Officials now say the best way to control the damage roiling the area is by keeping that sponge full. First, they need a way to monitor what’s happening below.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Case against New Orleans laborer shows a secretive ICE, lacking accountability
Judges exercise unbridled and arbitrary power over defendants with few legal protections.
Posted inSchools
Historic switch today to School Board highlights changes in New Orleans schools
MLK charter is the first eligible school to choose Orleans Parish School Board oversight.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
A letter to the next Dylann Roof
Sure you’ve been screwed, white boy, but it wasn’t by black people.
Posted inInside the News Room
Lens and ProPublica win Edward R. Murrow Award for ‘Losing Ground’
It’s our second national Murrow award in four years.