Enforcement is lax, given just one state employee to oversee local code jurisdictions throughout Louisiana.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Landrieu’s Civil Service overhaul again survives a legal challenge by city workers
This is the second such ruling to favor the mayor; employee lawyer urges appeal.
Posted inOpinion
To escape marginalization, Black History Month must embrace ‘hard truths’
As we close out the 2015 installment of Black History Month, a real problem is the way people continue to separate black history from American history.
Posted inSchools
City to repair transmitter that controls broken school zone lights
The transmitter sets the clocks for all the lights in the city and allows them to be programmed remotely. The fix could correct flashers that activate on weekends and holidays, but not when kids are in school. That was one of the problems revealed by a Lens survey in January, which found that nearly half of the lights malfunctioned.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Live blog: Federal judge holding hearing to discuss NOPD consent decree
Public event will be first of four designed to look at different aspects of the federal agreement.
Posted inSchools
KIPP Renaissance students return after protest over security canceled 2 days
Last two days before Mardi Gras break were canceled when some students refused to cooperate.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Gusman pays crony a million a year for services that aren’t specified
Investigative journalists are doing great work around here — a good thing, given the persistence of political sleaze.
Posted inEnvironment
Flood authority discusses appeal of judge’s smackdown to its oil and gas lawsuit
Board members debate whether they’d owe about $1.7 million to attorneys if they quit now.
Posted inEnvironment
15 coastal projects approved by Congress in 2007 met different fates
Despite giving the go-ahead in concept, Congress has not sent a penny to build 15 approved projects.
Posted inSchools
Plan to send the Internet home with some students hits federal funding snag
The ReNEW Schools charter-school network in New Orleans had a generous solution for its students without Internet access at their houses — take-home laptops equipped with a wireless broadband connection. However, school leaders pulled the plug on the expensive benefit when the federal program that finances school technology delayed a decision over whether such expenditures should be reimbursed — a decision that could affect schools nationwide.