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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.

Living School mom asks school board: ‘What’s more important, test scores or actual students?’

by Katy Reckdahl and Marta Jewson December 4, 2023 Updated May 7, 2024

Bakery Scraped By With Crumbs Because of Uber Eats Hacker

by Katy Reckdahl December 4, 2023 Updated May 7, 2024

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.
by Delaney Dryfoos December 1, 2023 Updated August 30, 2024

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.
by Delaney Dryfoos November 29, 2023 Updated November 29, 2023

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.
by Delaney Dryfoos November 22, 2023 Updated May 7, 2024

Lighthouse network expands, as St. John Parish opens Louisiana’s largest resilience hub for solar energy and storage

As St. John, the nation’s most climate-vulnerable place, opens the state’s seventh Community Lighthouse, other struggling communities try to fight LNG export terminals and open community solar projects.
by Delaney Dryfoos November 17, 2023 Updated November 17, 2023

The DA’s office wants to use predictive analytics software to direct city resources to ‘places that drive crime.’ Will it work?

Some advocates worry it could lead to increased police presence in already under-resourced areas. But the DA’s office says that the data is only a first step.
by Nick Chrastil November 15, 2023 Updated November 17, 2023

Judge halts industrial rezoning for proposed grain elevator site in St. John Parish

Land on the parish’s West Bank intended as the location for the Greenfield Grain Terminal will remain residential until the court orders otherwise.
by Delaney Dryfoos November 14, 2023 Updated August 30, 2024

State releases 2023 school performance scores for New Orleans schools

The NOLA Public Schools district received a C again this year. Five New Orleans charters received an F.
by Marta Jewson November 13, 2023 Updated December 1, 2023

Venture Global could be taking more than it gives in Plaquemines Parish

by Sara Sneath November 9, 2023 Updated November 14, 2023

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