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Author: Ariella Cohen

Politicians side with parents asking review of plans to put KIPP charter at Colton site

March 15, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Federal award or not, Iberville redevelopment to move forward on tax-credit financing

March 3, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Inside the quirky world of special funds: Landrieu team vows closer scrutiny

March 1, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Toxic acid poses an unnecessary health risk to more than a million in the Greater New Orleans region

February 24, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019
Despite the availability of a safer alternative, three New Orleans area refineries continue to rely on a lethal compound, as do two others in Louisiana.

Recovery projects are progressing, but half are not yet under construction

February 15, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Despite 8 deaths in abandoned warehouse, city has done little new to fight vagrancy

February 11, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Ghost schools haunt New Orleans neighborhoods

February 9, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019
Five years after the Orleans Parish School Board shut down dozens of hurricane-damaged public schools, New Orleans residents continue to live alongside the wreckage.

New HANO site lets Section 8 residents, landlords better find and manage apartments

February 3, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Director struggles to recover seed money owed her for blight-to-gardens program

February 2, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Independent schoolhouse authority proposed

January 27, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

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