Mayor Landrieu will paint a grim picture of financial impacts if city is forced to cover costs of the federal consent decree.
Posted inLand Use, Squandered Heritage
Billboard house collapses while city debates its demolition
Neighbors say squatters have pulled planks from the collapsing house and built themselves a shack in the rear. City officials are negotiating a hold-harmless agreement to allow demolition of the house.
Posted inCharter Schools
Lake Forest plans to purchase laptops for its youngest students
The school will purchase 151 new laptops with a grant for use in its pre-K through second-grade classes.
Posted inCharter Schools
Lycée appears to skirt open meetings laws while picking board candidates
Attorneys familiar with Louisiana law said the process may have subverted a law that requires public bodies to deliberate in public.
Posted inEnvironment
Natural river diversion at ‘Mardi Gras Pass’ gains support from political, commercial interests
Alternatives to plugging the crevasse include conduits beneath the levee or a bridge over the gap. These moves would buy time while scientists determine the pros and cons of this “free” diversion project and its potential impact on other projects planned as part of the struggle to rebuild a vanishing coast.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Priest deplores ‘shameful’ Ryan budget, lauds Landrieu for her opposition
Father Michael notes that financial inequality is at its worst level since the 1920s and prays that Congress will find the courage to attack the federal debt in a way that includes tax increases on the wealthy, not just cuts that hit middle-class and poor Americans hardest.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
CBS seeks tax credit for broadcasting ‘The Talk’ live from French Quarter during Super Bowl
CBS irked some locals by defiling Andrew Jackson’s statue with the logo of its show “The Talk” during Super Bowl week. Now it has stirred controversy by seeking a film industry tax break for those broadcasts from the French Quarter. Bottom line: the broadcaster is probably entitled to the tax break.
Posted inCharter Schools
15 finalists to interview for new Lycée Français board
Based on the list, the school will have a completely new board of directors after June 30.
Posted inCharter Schools
Rising costs have SciHigh leaders wondering whether to drop state pension plan
Based on the school’s current salaries for fiscal 2014, SciHigh could see an increase of $60,500 in retirement expenses.
Posted inCharter Schools
Six Crocker teachers invited to stay as New Orleans College Prep takes over school
They include two pre-kindergarten teachers, two first-grade teachers, one second-grade teacher and one fourth-grade teacher.