As a former teacher, it’s easy for me to connect those involved with last year’s jailbreak with their past, as students who went through the storm, were displaced, and returned to schools in tumult.
A Baton Rouge teenager once appeared on camera as proof that violence prevention could work. Two years later, he is charged in a shooting that killed 17-year-old Martha Odom. Their stories are not separate tragedies. They are connected by the same policy choices, budget cuts and abandoned promises that leave one child dead and another held by a system that failed to hold him sooner.
"Understand how the term relocation hits when you use it for those of us who have made lives here," writes 11th-generation New Orleanian Christopher Ard. "Maybe try 'abandon' or 'give up on.'"
The Supreme Court on Monday — just five days after the court’s Callais decision — issued an order putting the ruling into effect immediately, bypassing a 32-day period that the court would have ordinarily waited before sending the judgment back to the lower courts.
In New Orleans, the lack of surgical techs is already compounding the existing problems hospitals face. But most training efforts across New Orleans and Louisiana remain largely rooted in traditional models, with newer approaches still in early stages of adoption.
With nearly 90% of sampled homes showing lead in drinking water, a national conference is bringing experts, practitioners, and policymakers together to focus on real solutions, workforce development, and stronger coordination to make homes safer.
The three judgeships slated to be cut from the courthouse at Tulane Avenue and Broad Street represent far more than three individual judges losing their positions. They represent hundreds of cases that will now have to be handled by the remaining nine judges.
Louisiana’s fast-tracked approvals for more gas plants, with their secret terms and unenforceable guarantees, seem sure to bring more grid instability and financial uncertainty for Louisiana customers.
On Wednesday morning, a Senate committee will vote on the Louisiana State Voting Rights Act, which lays the foundation for preserving the integrity of our democracy.
