Parents hope new hire brings stability after previous principal and seven of 20 teachers left since start of school.
Despite years of citizen input, basic community needs have taken a back seat to tourism in Marigny zoning.
The local flood protection authority is trying to determine whether it should let the Army Corps of Engineers add a protective layer to levees that may have been built too low. If the work happens and then the levees have to be raised, it would waste a lot of money — but the protective layer would add protection right away.
Council members pledge support for asking voters to increase property taxes to help libraries.
Industry attorneys will try to convince a federal judge that flood-protection board doesn't have authority to sue.
Charter leaders have two months to decide whether to return to Orleans Parish School Board oversight.
Next month, New Orleans voters will decide whether to extend an expiring property tax that finances repairs to public school buildings, but the measure is facing resistance from unlikely people: some members of the Orleans Parish School Board. Indeed, three out of the seven members voted against even sending the question to voters. That’s because the measure takes millions of dollars now controlled by the School Board and puts them in the hands of the Recovery School District, even though the state-run district isn’t mentioned anywhere in the ballot proposition.
Earlier version of this story provided a misleading impression that chairwoman's services was improper.
Collapse of a Royal Street building shows more than love is needed to save the Vieux Carré.
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