You’re invited: Learn how we created and reported the Losing Ground project
Join us for a panel discussion with the characters in the story and to learn about what's next for the project.
Loyola student covering charter schools for The Lens wins national honor
Senior in mass communication wins First Amendment honor for tenacity regarding open-meetings laws.
City cites 13 properties for blight again after The Lens finds trash-strewn lots and dilapidated houses
One of them is a community center near Washington and Broad that has languished for two years.
Vitter panders to ozone polluters and Louisianans pay the price: poor health
The senator campaigns against strengthened EPA regs before they are even released.
Webcast: graduation rates and job readiness part of WYES coverage
Joint education reporting initiative will examine options for students after high school.
Losing Ground: Southeast Louisiana is disappearing, quickly
Scientists say one of the greatest environmental and economic disasters in the nation’s history is rushing toward a catastrophic conclusion. ProPublica and The Lens explore why it's happening and what will be lost if nothing is done.
Live chat replay: Talk to The Lens, ProPublica about ‘Losing Ground’
Discuss how we reported and built an interactive showing 80 years of coastal loss in Louisiana.
Live blog Wednesday: Landrieu wraps budget hearings; nonprofits discussed
Mayor heads to Council District D to get citizen input on budget priorities for 2015 spending plan.
Live blog Tuesday: Mayor at Touro Synagogue to hear District B concerns
Continuing his tour of the City Council districts, tonight's uptown meeting seeks more budget input.
“Stand your ground” becoming commonplace, but prosecutions uneven
As more states adopt legislation to protect those who use deadly force, an investigation has found the likelihood of a person being charged with or convicted of a crime after a claim of self-defense involving a firearm may depend more on the state or region where the shooting occurred than the circumstances of the case. Even cases in the same area have produced disparate outcomes.
