Confronting the enemy below: hydrologists float plan to keep water in city
A city that prides itself on embracing contradiction is now waking up to this one: The levees and pumping stations it has spent nearly 300 years perfecting to guard against external threats have also been the catalysts allowing an unseen enemy below to savage its budgets and cloud its future.
Fire safety 101: Faulty gas fuel lines can make your attic a loaded gun
Enforcement is lax, given just one state employee to oversee local code jurisdictions throughout Louisiana.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
