Runaway property tax valuations: What about imposing an annual cap?
Sudden unpredictable assessment leaps are hard on owners — and bad for the city.
KIPP passes measure to take on debt for construction if RSD comes through with land
Mayor’s budget restores staffing citywide, anticipates council will roll taxes forward
General fund budget of $593 million for 2016 is up $60 million over this year's spending plan.
City agrees to release public database after Lens promises to protect private info
Deal keeps secure any legally protected information accidentally provided by the city.
Live blog tonight: Schools chief visits West Bank for town hall meeeting
City’s log of public-records requests and answers riddled with errors, anomalies
Lack of reliable information makes it difficult to check compliance with law requiring transparency.
City makes fitful progress in repairing school-zone caution lights
Drive by a school zone light at random in the city of New Orleans on a weekday and there’s about a 50 percent chance it works. And that’s an improvement. The number of broken lights has slowly dropped in three field surveys by The Lens, but the city hasn’t come close to repairing them all, as a city official promised in July.
Superintendent of Orleans Parish schools begins series of community meetings
Parents and other community members invited tonight to 6 p.m. event at Audubon Charter School.
Louisiana man, imprisoned for 50 years for killing a deputy, is at center of Supreme Court hearing on youth sentencing
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that youth can’t be sentenced automatically to life in prison. But what should happen to the couple thousand inmates already serving such sentences? Tuesday, lawyers for Henry Montgomery argue that they should get parole hearings. An in-depth look at the crime and the man at the center of the case.
Love letter to a wild and crazy mistress as a jobseeker bails out of New Orleans
Seduced by New Orleans, a young Tulane grad breaks it off and heads back east.
