Amid nationwide controversy surrounding lethal injection, Louisiana officials are recommending a new way to execute the condemned: death by nitrogen. And the head of the state prison system also wants legislators to reconsider an execution-secrecy bill that was introduced but dropped during last year’s legislative session.
His plea against charter renewal comes after state report cited problems and cover up.
Workers are replacing batteries at twice the rate they did last year.
Outside lawyer says some past-due payments date back to 2013.
Group alleging open-meetings violation by RSD agrees along with district to delay hearing for two weeks.
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.
Enforcement is lax, given just one state employee to oversee local code jurisdictions throughout Louisiana.
This is the second such ruling to favor the mayor; employee lawyer urges appeal.
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.
