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 your home in a dense historic neighborhood is a tricky proposition because what goes up must also go out.
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.
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.
Louisiana has found a way around a nationwide shortage of one of the three drugs used to execute inmates.
For days before the charter school board voted to accept the resignation of principal Jill Otis, board members emailed back and forth about how they could force her out. Board president Jean Montes acknowledges that the discussions violated public meetings law but said the board dealt with the problem in a subsequent executive session.
