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Timely coverage of the people, policies, and events shaping New Orleans and Louisiana. This category delivers clear, factual reporting that keeps readers informed about local government, community issues, and stories that matter most to everyday residents.
Meta triples order of gas-fired power plants for its AI campus in Louisiana
The seven additional new Entergy plants will power Meta’s mammoth AI site in Richland Parish, which is the size of 2.700 football fields.
Black elders without birth records could lose vote under SAVE America Act
Throughout the 1940s, home births were common—and not always formally recorded, leaving elderly Black America at risk of losing the ballot. In response to voting challenges, Louisiana advocates are trying to protect voting rights at the state level.
State lawmakers push to expand laws allowing guns on college campuses
“We can trust people with their rights,” says the sponsor of a campus-carry gun bill introduced in Louisiana, as debate simmers nationwide over self-defense versus a greater risk of gun violence.
ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many.
Though federal policy discourages the detention of pregnant women and other at-risk people, Homeland Security numbers show that many have been caught up in the immigration enforcement surge over the past year.
Do the ‘climate-tech’ startups headed to old Navy base signal innovation—or a cover for Big Oil?
A startup hub planned for the old Navy Base boasts of green “deep tech”— but experts warn some of that tech only provides cover for polluters, while one was founded by an Israeli arms developer.
The classroom as first courtroom: Jada’s story
Jada and other Black girls often take the first steps toward the delinquency pipeline in the schoolroom, where teachers too often misread curiosity as sassiness—or as Louisiana law describes it, "willful disobedience."
The troubling side of public surveillance
The NOPD recently proposed using drones as first responders. Across the nation, cameras seem to be popping up everywhere. But many agencies have few safeguards to prevent abuse by individual officers.
For 100 years, Big Oil knew it was turning Louisiana’s coast into ‘Swiss cheese,’ records show
Oil giants knew that their practices were devastating coastal land, water, and habitats. That history is worth revisiting now, as the Supreme Court prepares a decision that could determine whether oil companies pay billions to rebuild Louisiana’s coast.
As gas prices soar, Trump is ignoring the lessons of the last oil crisis
When federal officials did away with fuel-efficiency standards, they assumed — wrongly — that oil prices would fall to dramatic lows and that gas would become cheap enough to wipe out the increased fuel costs of less-efficient vehicles.
