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Fishing boats

Listen up, Congress: Here’s how to support Louisiana’s working waterfronts and local seafood

Showcasing Gulf seafood and making a profitable living on the water are both becoming more and more difficult. But there may be good news on the horizon.
by Ryan Prewitt and Lance Nacio January 30, 2020 Updated January 30, 2020
Black and white hands clasped

White fears, black people: voluntary segregation and how to stop it

by The Rev. William Barnwell January 28, 2020 Updated January 30, 2020

The New Orleans public school busing crisis should be treated as the civil rights issue that it is.

For children attending public schools in New Orleans who rely upon public transportation to go to school, the privatization of New Orleans public schools has created barriers to accessing free and safe yellow school bus transportation, and therefore, access to education altogether.
by Victor Jones January 4, 2020 Updated January 4, 2020

'The Second Battle of New Orleans' republished for 50th anniversary of end to Riverfront Expressway fight

Sandra Stokes remembers her friend Bill Borah, whose classic book on preservationists' fight to stop the expressway project was recently republished.
by Sandra Stokes December 17, 2019 Updated December 16, 2019

Corporate wealth or the truth

The Advocate's editorial board "welcomes" petrochemical plants, even as its reporters show how dangerous that attitude has been.
by The Rev. William Barnwell December 16, 2019 Updated December 16, 2019
SCOTUS exterior, 11/2/19 credit Jessica Rosgaard

The most serious threat to abortion rights right now is a Louisiana law – and it’s heading to the Supreme Court

Recently the ACLU of Louisiana filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights challenging a law that would decimate access to abortion in Louisiana. The stakes could not be higher.
by Bruce Hamilton December 12, 2019 Updated December 13, 2019

The taking of our New Orleans riverfront

Our riverfront is for all, not just for tourists queued up to ride a riverboat and for one company’s profits.
by Sandra Stokes December 10, 2019 Updated December 13, 2019

Imprisonment is a threat to public health. We must reject jail expansion in New Orleans.

by Louis Gregory December 5, 2019 Updated December 13, 2019

New Orleans is ready for resilient power

by Andy Kowalczyk and Marriele Mango November 25, 2019 Updated December 13, 2019

A Cautionary Tale: The New Orleans Office of Inspector General. Part 2: Facing Challenges

In the second part of his essay, former Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux writes about the events that led to his 2017 retirement.
by Ed Quatrevaux November 22, 2019 Updated November 21, 2019

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