The leader of the governor’s temporary shelter says they are fully staffed and genuinely ready to move people into permanent housing. But it is several miles from the Superdome and is seen by critics as a way to warehouse homeless people away from Super Bowl crowds.
The Descendants Project sues, contending that public officials had no right to forgive Greenfield’s grain-elevator-project debts.
"I keep paper and pen with me at all times because, like the most dynamic dreams, creativity is as wispy as Louisiana mist and dissipates quickly if not seized,” writes John Corley, associate editor of the Angolite, who says that, in his mind, he still lives in 1989, ‘the year I fell.’
This poem received second prize for poetry in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
The author, who is also associate editor for the Angolite magazine, won an honorable mention for this essay in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
"I am not a person who came to prison and became a writer, I am a writer who happened to come to prison."
This story was awarded the top PEN Prison Writing Award for fiction.
Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men closed Friday, and its students are now frantically trying to find spots to finish out the school year. Parents say that the school’s mid-year closing was a tragedy that could have been foreseen – and prevented.
In the Holy Cross Neighborhood, residents obtain Port emails showing that a modest grain terminal at the Alabo Wharf includes more phases—and now includes crude sunflower oil, shipped in from Turkey.
As advocates and lawyers file suit against the state, asking a judge to bar the reclassification of drugs used for medication abortion, women seeking IUDs and needing prenatal care say that they are also feeling the effects of the new law.
