A local levee authority has offered to hold off on some of its lawsuit against oil and gas companies if the state can get the industry to discuss voluntarily paying for damage. But the comments by the Flood Protection Authority and the Jindal administration don't signal much movement on their key disagreement.
New Beginnings charter system's personnel turmoil continues.
With tropical wave threatening the Gulf, early storm protection is activated — but not whole system.
Now that the charter movement has matured in New Orleans, there are fewer opportunities to grow.
About 75 percent of last year's students will return this year.
The office has shrunk since it was created in 2011. It's now at four people, which the city plans to maintain.
Baltimore's experience with the Inner Harbor redevelopment is a cause for concern in New Orleans.
They questioned why the board acted alone and and suggested that it's acting outside of its legal authority.
School anticipates 380 students, an increase over last year.
Tapping the state's piggy bank has helped Jindal and legislators avoid tax hikes. But after pulling $255 million out of the rainy day fund, the state now has to find a way to replenish it in two years. But tax revenues are not forecast to rise enough to provide the money, foreshadowing tough choices ahead.
