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Trial begins in First Amendment suit against St. John the Baptist Parish
Joy Banner of The Descendants Project brought the lawsuit after the Parish Council chairman threatened her with prosecution and imprisonment for speaking during the public comment period of a 2023 meeting.
Pairing of Arctic air and moisture from the Gulf created record-breaking snowfall
The celebrated New Orleans snowfall is twice what Anchorage has recorded all winter long. Meteorologists attributed it to a perfect dance between weather systems.
New Orleans Health Department launches a misoprostol map
To assist physicians and patients, the NOHD announces the launch of a map of Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, which pinpoints pharmacies that are stocked with the controlled substance misoprostol.
The shelter that the Super Bowl made
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.
Getting Greenfield to pay what it promised
The Descendants Project sues, contending that public officials had no right to forgive Greenfield’s grain-elevator-project debts.
Kaleidoscope Reprise
This poem received second prize for poetry in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
Waiting.
This story was awarded the top PEN Prison Writing Award for fiction.
Top debate student couldn’t sway School Board to keep his school open
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.
Alabo Wharf deal gets slippery
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.
