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Author: Michael Stein and Charles Maldonado

Civil Service Commission approves citywide furloughs

October 8, 2020 Updated October 8, 2020
The furloughs amount to a 10 percent pay cut for the rest of the year.

City Planning staff recommends raising bed cap at Orleans jail

October 4, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Judge signs order voiding City Council Entergy plant votes

July 3, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019
Attorneys for the city argued that the final vote, on March 8, 2018, should stand. But the judge ruled that the presence of paid actors at an earlier meeting tainted the process.

Proposed legal judgment would void City Council votes on Entergy plant, but lawyers for the city say final vote should stand

June 28, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019
The proposed judgment was submitted by the plaintiffs on Wednesday.

Police found surveillance cameras with NOPD logos mounted to a Lakeview light pole. They weren’t the city’s. But they were near a house connected to a city crime-camera contractor.

June 20, 2019 Updated May 1, 2020
Active Solutions COO Jeff Burkhardt denied that he purchased or owned the cameras, calling a reporter’s questions “fake news.” Less than 24 hours after The Lens called him, the cameras were gone.

Entergy investigators: Company knew or should have known about paid actors at council meetings

October 29, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019
"If Hawthorn can get more people I will pay," Charles Rice wrote in October 2017, weeks before a utility committee meeting.

How Entergy spent $1.3 million to polish its reputation, script support and monitor opposition to its new power plant

July 12, 2018 Updated September 10, 2021
We know about the scheme to pay people to show up at meetings to support a new natural gas plant in New Orleans. But that was just a fraction of more than a million dollars the utility spent to burnish Entergy’s reputation, script support and monitor opponents.

Councilwoman Nguyen’s nonprofit, two advisers to Cantrell worked on Entergy’s campaign for new power plant

July 12, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019
Cantrell’s spokesman said she knew about the relationship, but “on this and on every other issue — Mayor Cantrell thinks for herself.”

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