Halloween 2005 must have been particularly scary in New Orleans. Most of the city was desolate and rotting, having been drowned two months earlier by a cataclysmic engineering disaster. Scores of corpses still lay in wrecked homes, awaiting an unhappy discovery. Political leaders doubted whether the stricken city would (or should) ever recover. Adding insult to […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Juvenile Court judges say they lack clerk, ask council to restore 10 percent budget cut
Orleans Parish Juvenile Court officials pleaded their case to City Council members Friday against the Landrieu administration’s more than $90,000 cut to their personnel funding, and a more than $300,000 cut to support services funding for at-risk youth. The Juvenile Court is beseeching the council for $3.9 million total in funding for next year, nearly […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Tigers and Saints are fine, but nothing beats a ball game like this
“But then it got beautiful.” — St. Louis Cardinals right- fielder Lance Berkman. 1. I like nearly all sports, in the right dosages. But if you forced me to choose only one sport to watch for the rest of my life, I’d smile and answer: baseball. Yes, I’m one of those eggheads who loves to […]
Posted inSchools
Did they or didn't they? Algiers charter board reconsiders revoking teachers retirement
By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | Update: The story has been corrected to reflect two changes – one, board member Charles Rice’s status as a member, not a president, and two, charter contract renewal forms being the method ACSA officials would have used to change retirement benefit options. If you had asked Algiers […]