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Author Archives: Michael Isaac Stein

Michael Isaac Stein covers New Orleans' cultural economy and local government for The Lens. Before joining the staff, he freelanced for The Lens as well as The Intercept, CityLab, The New Republic, and Pacific Standard. He was recently awarded a fellowship from the Heinrich Boll Foundation, which he used to report on water scarcity, division, and colonialism in Cyprus.

Council defers library board appointment after public pushback

by Michael Isaac SteinJanuary 21, 2021January 21, 2021

Nominee Dana Henry actively campaigned for a 2020 ballot measure that would have stripped 40 percent of the library’s tax collections

City Council rejects multimillion-dollar Folgers tax breaks

by Michael Isaac SteinJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 2021

City Council members vote to put new French Quarter security sales tax on April ballot despite Cantrell administration objections

by Michael Isaac SteinJanuary 14, 2021January 16, 2021

New Orleans council member asks state to overturn local assessor’s commercial tax cuts

by Michael Isaac SteinJanuary 12, 2021January 14, 2021

What’s next for DA-elect Williams’ City Council seat?

by Michael Isaac SteinJanuary 7, 2021January 7, 2021

Cantrell ends public safety furloughs, says more personnel changes ahead

by Michael Isaac SteinJanuary 4, 2021January 4, 2021

New Orleans City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other surveillance tech

by Michael Isaac SteinDecember 18, 2020December 18, 2020

City Council rejects two Folgers tax exemptions, defers voting on four others

by Michael Isaac SteinDecember 17, 2020December 17, 2020

After overwhelming defeat at polls, French Quarter security sales tax heading back to the ballot in April

by Michael Isaac SteinDecember 16, 2020December 17, 2020

City releases dozens of pages of emails on police use of facial recognition

by Michael Isaac SteinDecember 14, 2020December 14, 2020

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