Beads Won: Politics in Mardi Gras parades
Delaney Nolan discusses the anti-ICE paraders during Mardi Gras.
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Behind The Lens
Behind the Lens offers reporter’s thoughts, analysis and perspective on their stories, offering a glimpse into the inner workings of the Lens newsroom; how a particular story came to be, why it matters and what it might mean to our listeners.
Innovative or Ill-Advised?: A NOLA addiction doctor leaves after her novel approach raises questions at her hospital
Aneri Pattani from KFF Health News talks about Elyse Stevens, who was a primary care and addiction medicine doctor in New Orleans.
23 & 1: Solitary confinement in LA prisons is on the rise; also local churches provide shelter and power during outages using solar
Bernard Smith on the dangers of solitary confinement and Delaney Dryfoos on resiliency hubs.
A town on the brink of extinction: Modeste is facing an acute concentration of industry as a proposed new development threatens to engulf it
Delaney Nolan on the town of Modeste and a new giant industrial park planned for the area.
Emboldened: LA lawmakers ask FDA to restrict abortion meds nationally
Marta Jewson on one year of Act 246, the Louisiana law that locked up life-saving maternal medication. Elise Plunk on a suspended LNG permit that was reissued in Cameron Parish.
Instability is the word of the year for one local school
Delaney Nolan on exit bonuses for voluntary deportation promised by the Department of Homeland Security. Marta Jewson on the fate of The Leah Chase School.
An Oil Well in Reverse: Smitty’s hopes to inject liquid waste into a landfill in Jefferson Parish
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality allows the operator of Smitty’s to dump pollutants from its recent explosion deep into a Jefferson Parish landfill. Plus, NOLA Public Schools improves, getting a B from the state.
Kicking the Can: SNAP during the shutdown and charter schools await their fate
The shutdown is over, how did the state do in protecting its most vulnerable. And charters await their fate with state evaluations.
“A Fundamental Reset”
Fossil fuel companies rebrand as "energy" producers. Also construction of a new LNG terminal is halted by a federal judge.
Boxing Up Choice: Louisiana AG sues the FDA to halt the shipment of abortion meds. And the Leah Chase School Principal Resigns.
Greg LaRose on Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's lawsuit against the FDA challenging the distribution of abortion drugs by mail. Marta Jewson on the resignation of Leah Chase School's principal, just two months into the school year.
