In amending the Charter voters expressed disenchantment with pre-Katrina’s ad hoc, special-interest-driven planning process.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Executions on hold for at least a year as Louisiana sorts out death penalty method
The ruling delays a child-killer’s execution, as well as four others on death row.
Posted inSchools
Lusher asks Attorney General if it must release the name of its admissions test
CEO Kathy Riedlinger says some parents could gain access to the test if they know its name.
Posted inSchools
ReNEW CEO encouraged retesting of students so network could get grant
Two school leaders at SciTech resigned last month for testing irregularities.
Posted inOpinion
Politics of passing: Rachel Dolezal would have had an easier time of it in old New Orleans
Did a socially established white person ever assume a black identity, long-term, in the era before Rachel Dolezal? Apparently Voodoo queen Marie Laveau’s lover did just that.
Posted inInside the News Room
Six pieces by The Lens are finalists for New Orleans Press Club awards
Interactive work on Louisiana’s disappearing coastline and other digital innovations are honored.
Posted inInside the News Room
Lens asks judge to reconsider his ruling in public-records case against city and mayor
Civil District Court judge said the law is not “hard, fast and definite.”
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Firefighters to get back pay for filling jobs of superiors, dating to late 2013
Civil Service Commission today approved compromise; amount not yet known.
Posted inSchools
Orleans Parish schools superintendent to give direct-run schools more autonomy
With only five traditional schools left, new chief is cutting central office staff.
Posted inLand Use
Judge delays city from seizing long-vacant Lake Terrace Shopping Center
The city kicked in $225,000 to renovate the property after Katrina, but it’s languished.