Lycée Français paid more than $40,000 in legal fees over 2012-13 school year
More than $10,000 went to handle public records requests to the charter school.
Volleyball club drops plans to build sand courts along Bayou St. John
The group said it expected the Sewerage & Water board to rescind its lease offer due to neighborhood opposition.
Lycée Français enters school year with new board and new CEO in place
New CEO Keith Bartlett takes helm of French-curriculum school.
New Orleans vs. Omaha: Can we mimic its Midwestern economic vitality here?
Omaha has done pretty well after its stockyards were shut down. New Orleans has struggled to diversify its economy beyond tourism.
Encore Academy will hold budget hearing Tuesday evening
$2.9 million budget under consideration for 2013-14 fiscal year.
Judge names Sheppard Mullin as NOPD monitor, siding with Justice Department
The city preferred Hillard Heintze, headed by a former Chicago police chief.
Lycée Français to see 23 percent jump in budget
Charter school's board to hold public hearing Monday on proposed $3.7 million budget.
Sediment diversions not the way to rebuild Louisiana’s coast
Research shows that we won't be able to rebuild the coast the same way it was created, with sediment flowing down the river.
Charter school board’s membership drops below state-required minimum
Two board members for Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans resigned over the weekend.
Louisiana’s employment performance more mixed than Jindal portrays
Jindal often notes that under his watch, the state’s unemployment rate has been lower than the national rate. But unemployment has risen sharply since he took office, and since December the rate has risen while nationally it has fallen. However, economists say that Katrina rebuilding had pushed the state unemployment rate to artificially low levels.
