Too late to save face, but time for LSU to settle van Heerden lawsuit
LSU tried to discredit Ivor van Heerden and then fired him for speaking out about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' failures with the levees in New Orleans. Now the university is fighting his wrongful termination lawsuit.

Elevating houses crowds sidewalks in historic neighborhoods
Elevating your home in a dense historic neighborhood is a tricky proposition because what goes up must also go out.

Nature Center fallow for 7 years: IG urges feds to pull funding
The federal government awarded the Audubon Commission $7.6 million to repair Katrina damage to the Louisiana Nature Center. After years of delays, a new report recommends that the feds rescind the funding. It also notes that the repairs are the city's responsibility because it owns the land, not Audubon.
Ref’s bad call spared us eternal ignominy for Super Bowl blackout

Company with family, political ties does big business with OPSO
Metro Business Supplies has done $1.7 million in business with the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office since Hurricane Katrina. The man who landed the job, Richard Schlaudecker, is married to the daughter of Chief Deputy Gerald Ursin.
Teacher evaluations in full swing at Harney

State says it will use a new, single drug for upcoming execution
Louisiana has found a way around a nationwide shortage of one of the three drugs used to execute inmates.