FCC postpones long-awaited rules reducing ‘outrageous’ prison and jail phone rates, leaves families paying more
Expensive calls force families to choose between paying bills and staying connected to loved ones.
Category: Top Story
This category showcases the lead coverage readers need to know, offering context, clarity, and insight into issues shaping New Orleans and beyond.
Smoke and mirrors in cannabis zoning
In New Orleans, marijuana dispensaries — like the one opening soon in our community — can be granted a permit without any neighborhood notice. And in Louisiana, unlike other neighboring states, dispensaries can open up next to a library, elementary school, church, or daycare.
EPA releases list of hazardous inventory at Smitty’s Supply
Plant held millions of gallons of motor oils, fluids and other petrochemicals.
As millions face climate relocation, the nation’s first attempt sparks warnings and regret
Three years after a federally funded move, Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles report broken homes — and promises.
Keep the Guard in reserve. Build on what works.
If a limited deployment is ordered, there are ways to do this right, Arthur Hunter writes. Guard personnel could assume tasks to increase public safety by putting more officers on streets, and improve our infrastructure by attacking the places that invite crime.
Data centers spark fears of a ‘Digital Cancer Alley’ in Louisiana
A new report critical of the rapid data-center ramp-up across the South describes it as ‘Big Tech, following in the footsteps of Big Oil.'
Casting votes for sustainability
In this city surrounded by water, we need to know each candidate’s position to address New Orleans’ environmental vulnerabilities, says the writer, an urban designer and educator who has long focused on water issues in the city.
New Orleans’ lead-heavy lizards could help scientists better grasp toxicity, evolution
The little brown lizards in New Orleans are thriving with blood levels of lead that Tulane scientists say should be lethal, even in far bigger creatures.
In St. James Parish, Exxon plans to lay carbon pipeline alarmingly close to homes, businesses
Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency
Competing to be the best s-p-e-l-l-e-r inside Angola prison
A buzzed-about spelling bee returns to the United States’ biggest maximum security prison.
