The Lower 9 senior center – based in Andrew “Pete” Sanchez Multi-Service Center – has the highest participation rate of any senior center in New Orleans. It’s a must-do stop for candidates running for any office. Seniors eat hot meals and compete at the center’s two tables reserved for cards: one for spades and one […]
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Posted inCriminal Justice
How Phase III came to be
Though they once applauded the jail’s ambitious, federally overseen reforms, community groups and political leaders in New Orleans united in opposition to a key mandate stemming from those efforts: the construction of a $109 million mental health jail.
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‘Auld Len Synes’ – Top 2023 stories
Pictured with trays of the bakery’s signature buttermilk drops, Darrius Henry (left), an owner and NeeNee Louise (right), a longtime employee. Photo by La’Shance Perry / The Lens In the 7th Ward, the Buttermilk Drop – one of the city’s top picks for home-delivery breakfasts – scrambled to pay its December bills, after a hacker […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
St. John Parish sued for shutting down critic, told not to rezone controversial site
In the same week, a judge again barred the parish from making the Greenfield Property industrial. And parish-council critic Joy Banner filed a First Amendment lawsuit.
Posted inIn the N.O.
Judging a block by its covers
THIS WEEK, a Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans contractor in a neon-green vest quietly made his way through a block of Mid-City, lifting the round metal disks out of front sidewalks and yards to install new “smart” water meters. But as he left, one thing was missing: the water-meter covers embossed with a […]
Posted inSchools
Living School mom asks school board: ‘What’s more important, test scores or actual students?’
At the Living School, 16-year-old Jameson Phillips finally brought himself up to grade level. “It’s the first time in his life that he’s not behind in school,” said his grandmother, Shawn Bazile, who took in Jameson a few years ago. The key, she believes, has been the school’s small size and dedication to one-on-one attention […]
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Bakery Scraped By With Crumbs Because of Uber Eats Hacker
The Buttermilk Drop does more morning business than nearly anyone else on the city’s Uber Eats, its owners say. People hit the order button nonstop every morning, buying boxes of the bakery’s signature pastry, the Buttermilk Drop, and bigger breakfasts: shrimp and grits, omelets, breakfast rice with sausage and eggs, breakfast sandwiches, fried chicken, pancakes, […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Joy Banner told to curtail remarks or risk arrest
Banner planned to ask the council why they were retaining a lawyer to defend its president from personal ethical concerns. But she was interrupted by the council chairman, who cited an invalidated statute and warned her that, if she spoke, she could face criminal prosecution.
Posted inEnvironment
Climate report indicates dire future for Mississippi River basin, which is already feeling impacts
Though there is still room for mitigation, the cycle of flooding and drought will become more extreme.
Posted inEnvironment
Louisiana’s rare growing coast, anchored by black willows and bald cypress trees
Fifty years after the historic 1973 flood, land is still forming in the Wax Lake and Atchafalaya River deltas. It’s held in place by the roots of coastal trees, which protect from flooding and hurricane winds and store carbon dioxide.