The Sisters of the Holy Family are constructing solar panels on the order’s New Orleans East motherhouse, to create the city’s 12th solar-driven Community Lighthouse – and, over on Dwyer Road, they’re installing solar panels to reduce their neighbors’ Entergy bills.
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Posted inCriminal Justice
‘It isn’t very clear who is responsible for the jail getting to that cap’
The Orleans Justice Center has surpassed the city’s jail population cap, sparking questions about how to increase releases while reducing bookings — and what the rising jail population means for the health of those incarcerated and for the city of New Orleans.
Posted inFarm to Trouble
At the mouth of the Mississippi, Louisiana bears the burden of upstream runoff. Why doesn’t it push for solutions?
This summer’s “dead zone,” a low-oxygen area where the river empties into the sea, could span 5,827 square miles across the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana has the power to call for change.
Posted inSchools
New Orleans’ intensive Center for Resilience closes abruptly
A therapeutic program run by ReNEW will enroll some of the center’s students, but can’t offer the same hospital-level care. That leaves some students without a school that can address their severe behavioral needs.
Posted inEnvironment
A research duel heats up, amid high-stakes decision on LNG exports
As groups try to influence a federal decision, Louisiana fishers squeezed by current LNG exports call for an end to expansion.
Posted inSchools
A concussion and a missing dreadlock
After a teacher held him by his hair, a 13-year-old child was punched by a classmate and suffered a concussion. The teacher had been arrested for a similar classroom incident nine years ago in another parish.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Federal judge: ‘I don’t think robbers would ask for help’
On Tuesday, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, lawyers from the ACLU of Louisiana and Cooley LLP argued in front of a three-judge panel on behalf of Bilal Hankins, a Black teenager stopped at gunpoint moments after he and his friends had approached officers for help in finding a lost dog. […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
‘Show us the video’
It’s been almost a year since Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies shot and killed 18-year-old Calvin “Trey” Cains III in the parking lot of his mom’s Metairie apartment complex Yet his mother, Mallory Woodfork, and his father, Calvin Cains Jr., are still searching for answers about their son’s final moments — and demanding accountability from […]
Posted inEnvironment
Stories behind the soil: Le Petit Jardin de Belle
A new road threatens to cut through the “safe haven” for youth created through the Grow Dat Youth Farm, in what critics see as an unnecessary focus on motor vehicles.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Louisiana paying D.C. attorneys $1,000 an hour to defend against probe into state police
Last year, the firm began raking in big money for legal services related to a DOJ investigation into patterns of misconduct by the Louisiana State Police.