The company’s report indicates that after a few years of improvements, the city’s electric reliability may be slipping once again.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Despite defending reality series set inside jail, emails show Sheriff’s Office kicked out ‘Jailbirds: New Orleans’ film crew last year
After agreeing to allow the production crew into the jail, Sheriff’s Office officials became concerned about how it would be portrayed.
Posted inCriminal Justice
In fake subpoena settlement, Orleans DA’s office agrees to be placed under monitor
The agreement will place significant curbs on prosecutors’ ability to have witnesses, victims arrested.
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‘No place to go but up’: Entergy critics urge a new look at abandoned plan to sell transmission grid, break up vertical monopoly
Entergy planned to sell its transmission assets a decade ago, a commitment that helped put a federal antitrust investigation to rest. It never happened.
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Active cases drop in NOLA Public Schools as city sees lower COVID-19 numbers
Despite the recent encouraging data from the district, the 2021-2022 case count among staff and students is already higher than all of last school year’s, likely due in large part to the highly infectious delta variant.
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Time for New Orleans to pick up the trash
The city’s trash contractors need to be held accountable in every way possible.
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A ‘Jim Crow jury’ prisoner fights for freedom
Brandon Jackson is one of more than 1,500 people still incarcerated in Louisiana on non-unanimous verdicts, though the United States Supreme Court ruled split verdicts unconstitutional last year. Will he get a chance at freedom?
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Behind The Lens episode 144: Real subpoenas
A settlement in a suit over conditions on death row. And OPSB is asking to subpoena financial records in an ongoing legal dispute with Singleton Charter School.
Posted inSchools
Lusher Charter board votes to begin process of renaming school
The move follows the Orleans Parish School Board’s recent project to remove names of Confederate figures and white supremacists from school buildings.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Class-action settlement mandates time outside of cells, communal meals and recreation for death row prisoners
The suit was filed in 2017 on behalf of death row prisoners, claiming that Angola’s highly restrictive conditions violated their constitutional rights.