Live chat: How well has the Landrieu administration dealt with blight in New Orleans?
The Lens' Charles Maldonado will talk with Lens readers at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Campus move yields hefty surplus — but its uses are limited to debt service, construction
Several milestones have been reached as NOMMA completes its build-out to a four-grade high school.
After-school programs can continue, thanks to renewed community-center funding
Unexpected influx in per-pupil funding pushes Crescent Leadership into the black
As recently as February, the school appeared to be heading for an annual deficit about as large as the surplus now projected.
For all the breast-beating about diversions, decision to build them has yet to be made
Ongoing cost/benefit research weighs more than a diversion's land-building capacity, including impacts on fisheries and flood protection.
Post-mortem on Audubon millage: more to its defeat than anti-tax fervor
Family budgets have been nibbled from all sides by fees and walloped by higher rents or property taxes. Incomes haven’t kept pace.
FirstLine Schools board releases April meeting agenda
Bill to lessen crime of marijuana possession backed by liberals, libertarians
But it faces strong opposition from law enforcement. A committee will hear the bill Tuesday.
Live blog: Civil Service Commission considers overhaul of hiring, promotion rules
Property owner continues fight for paving, despite rejection, citation
Prytania Street apartment building paved over grass to provide parking after Katrina.
