At the height of hurricane season, Congressional candidate Devin Davis announces a plan to combat Louisiana’s home-insurance crisis. U.S. Rep. Troy Carter says he’s focused on a more apt federal concern: FEMA’s flood-hazard ratings.
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Behind the Lens episode 248: ‘They’ve harmed our public health’
Sara Sneath on the fossil fuel industry’s relationship with Louisiana universities. Marta Jewson and Katy Reckdahl on Rooted School’s guaranteed income study.
Posted inOpinion
Protecting Louisiana Workers is a Hot Topic
As heat sets new records across the nation, the risks that people face on-the-job are on the rise, especially in summer months.
Posted inSchools
Pencils, Laptops, and Guaranteed Income
Across the nation, there’s been an increase in programs looking at ways to help lift up young people – and move them from poverty into more secure futures. Administrators at Rooted School saw fewer absences, a jump in reading scores, and a boost in independence for students who received $50 weekly stipends.
Posted inOpinion
Our Lives or LNGs?
The right evacuation plan can save lives. Another LNG plant in Plaquemines Parish makes that impossible.
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No longer ‘half slave, half free’
Supposedly, the Civil War dismantled the politics that pitted “slave states” against “free states.” And yet the effect of the punishment-exception clause in the Thirteenth Amendment was to not only sanction the preservation of slavery and involuntary servitude, but also to extend it nationwide.
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Behind the Lens episode 247: ‘Cumulative emissions’
Delaney Dryfoos and Katy Reckdahl on Formosa’s proposed plastic complex in St. James Parish. And Greenfield’s retreat from its plans for an $800 million grain terminal.
Posted inEnvironment
Formosa Plastics returns to fight again
In January, an appeals court injected new life into Formosa’s plans to build a huge plastics plant in St. James Parish. But to make plastic requires vinyl chloride, which already has a toxic 40-year track record in Louisiana.
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Behind the Lens episode 246: ‘unreasonable doubt’
Nick Chrastil and Katy Reckdahl on a court of appeals’ ruling in favor of three young Black men stopped by security district officers. Marta Jewson on a new sunshine law.
Posted inCriminal Justice
‘Grossly insufficient’: Judge blasts DOC-suggested fixes for Angola’s Farm Line
Recent ruling “another clear signal that the State must end the Farm Line altogether,” said a lawyer for incarcerated workers.