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Author: Michael Isaac Stein

About 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.

City disposes of homeless residents’ property, fails to report on outreach efforts, in spite of new law

January 9, 2020 Updated December 18, 2020

City Council goes before state appeals court seeking to overturn ruling against Entergy plant

January 6, 2020 Updated January 6, 2020
The council argued that there was no Open Meetings Law violation as a result of the Entergy paid actors scandal

After 35 years, New Orleans is changing the way it regulates Entergy

December 26, 2019 Updated December 27, 2019
When it comes to regulating Entergy New Orleans, the City Council has outsourced the vast majority of tasks to out-of-state consultants. Now, the city is trying to build in-house expertise.

Convention Center again defers vote on master architect over lack of inclusion of minority businesses

December 19, 2019 Updated December 19, 2019
While the vote was for a single contract, the debate broadened to how the Convention Center approached minority-business participation in general.

Monitors say NOPD academy now in compliance with federal consent decree

December 17, 2019 Updated December 17, 2019
Monitors have found department in compliance with at least 11 of 18 major consent decree sections.

Convention Center general manager, Michael Sawaya, sued for violation of public records law

December 13, 2019 Updated December 13, 2019
“The public records law means what it says — if the people want to review records of government spending or how decisions are made in positions of public trust those records have to be turned over in a timely fashion,” Scott Sternberg, McKay’s attorney, said.

‘It will be a mess:’ Traffic headaches from Convention Center Blvd. not expected to go away when construction ends

December 12, 2019 Updated December 13, 2019
A plan from three years ago to fix the increased traffic from the lane reduction on Convention Center Boulevard has gone nowhere.

Entergy sues the City Council over lower profit rate and $1 million fine

December 10, 2019 Updated January 13, 2020
Company wants to overturn recently passed resolution setting electric and gas rates for the city.

City seeking contract with nonprofit with questionable history handling public funds, but council delays vote

December 5, 2019 Updated December 5, 2019
The Family Center of Hope received millions in public funds to build a community center. It was never completed, and the building is still vacant.

District Attorney has dropped 83 percent of domestic violence charges in Municipal Court in last two years

December 3, 2019 Updated December 3, 2019
Last month, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said that his office was sending almost all domestic violence charges to Municipal Court, rather than state court.

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