The furloughs amount to a 10 percent pay cut for the rest of the year.
Author Archives: Michael Stein and Charles Maldonado
Posted inCriminal Justice
City Planning staff recommends raising bed cap at Orleans jail
Planners’ recommendation would raise capacity to 1,731 beds, but limit the inmate count to 1,438. Proposal must still go through Planning Commission, City Council.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Judge signs order voiding City Council Entergy plant votes
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.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Proposed legal judgment would void City Council votes on Entergy plant, but lawyers for the city say final vote should stand
The proposed judgment was submitted by the plaintiffs on Wednesday.
Posted inCriminal Justice
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.
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.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Entergy investigators: Company knew or should have known about paid actors at council meetings
“If Hawthorn can get more people I will pay,” Charles Rice wrote in October 2017, weeks before a utility committee meeting.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations
How Entergy spent $1.3 million to polish its reputation, script support and monitor opposition to its new power plant
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.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations
Councilwoman Nguyen’s nonprofit, two advisers to Cantrell worked on Entergy’s campaign for new power plant
Cantrell’s spokesman said she knew about the relationship, but “on this and on every other issue — Mayor Cantrell thinks for herself.”