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This category showcases the lead coverage readers need to know, offering context, clarity, and insight into issues shaping New Orleans and beyond.

Infographic explaining how parents in New Orleans can request special education evaluations for their children, outlining reasons to request an evaluation and timelines for schools to respond and complete assessments.

Back to school: How and when to ask for a special education evaluation

If parents notice their child struggling academically or facing more discipline in school, it may be time for a special education evaluation. Roughly 15% of students in Louisiana have special education plans.
by Marta Jewson October 6, 2025 Updated October 26, 2025

Tulane changes syllabus, fires manager over Gaza article

Tulane University, facing an investigation by the Trump administration, fired an academic director and pulled an article about polio in Gaza from an infectious disease course.
by Delaney Nolan October 3, 2025 Updated October 8, 2025

Trump’s vision for childhood vaccines could hurt working moms the most

"Intentionally or not, Trump is adding weight to this burden that women are already carrying as family health managers."
by Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th October 3, 2025 Updated October 3, 2025

Kennedy High grads who were denied diplomas can continue lawsuit, judges rule

Appellate judges certify class-action lawsuit lodged by students who endured Kennedy High School’s graduation scandal several years ago.
by Marta Jewson October 2, 2025 Updated October 8, 2025

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.
by Bernard Smith October 1, 2025 Updated October 1, 2025
Exterior of the NOLA Cannabis Co. dispensary on South Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans, with a red sign on the building behind a chain-link fence and large oak trees framing the sidewalk.

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.
by Betty DiMarco and Lane Trippe September 30, 2025 Updated October 1, 2025

EPA releases list of hazardous inventory at Smitty’s Supply

Plant held millions of gallons of motor oils, fluids and other petrochemicals.
by Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator September 29, 2025 Updated October 1, 2025

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.
by Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon | Floodlight September 26, 2025 Updated September 26, 2025

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.
by Arthur Hunter Jr. September 25, 2025 Updated September 25, 2025
A man in a gas mask stands next to a “Cancer Alley” sign with massive industrial data centers and smokestacks billowing black smoke behind him under an orange

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.'
by Gus Bennett September 25, 2025 Updated September 29, 2025

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