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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.

Council approves $15 minimum wage for city contractors, but city employees say they deserve the same

The new Living Wage Ordinance for contractors would raise the minimum to $13.25 an hour next year and $15 in 2023. Some direct city employees earn far less, and the council can’t change that on its own.
by Michael Isaac Stein July 1, 2021 Updated July 2, 2021

Many Louisiana residents may need to renew Medicaid benefits as COVID-19 emergency winds down

Letters sent this month are an early step in winding down pandemic programs.
by Philip Kiefer June 29, 2021 Updated June 29, 2021

City workers from Department of Public Works initiate strike

The strike comes a week after the City Council advanced a proposal to mandate a minimum $15 an hour wage for city contractors, but not for direct city employees
by Michael Isaac Stein June 28, 2021 Updated June 28, 2021

‘Tantamount to torture’: Complaint alleges inhumane conditions, overuse of solitary confinement at Pine Prairie immigrant detention center

GEO Group, the private prison corporation that runs the facility, denied the allegations.
by Nick Chrastil June 23, 2021 Updated June 26, 2021

Entergy astroturfing fine used to buy surveillance cameras for second time

Mayor LaToya Cantrell originally said that all the money from the fine should go to the Sewerage and Water Board.
by Michael Isaac Stein June 17, 2021 Updated June 17, 2021

Security district officers sued for allegedly pulling guns on Black youths looking for lost dog

The suit alleges that the officers were racially profiling the group when they stopped them.
by Nick Chrastil June 14, 2021 Updated June 15, 2021

Report: New Orleans judges continued to issue warrants for failure to appear during pandemic despite court closures, health risks

In their annual report, watchdog group Court Watch NOLA called the practice "egregious."
by Nick Chrastil June 7, 2021 Updated June 8, 2021

Council rescinds zoning exemptions for Hard Rock site; Councilwoman calls for criminal charges

“We have to be serious about stopping all types of violent crime, and that includes crimes committed by wealthy developers,” Councilwoman Kristin Palmer said.
by Michael Isaac Stein June 3, 2021 Updated June 4, 2021

Council begins process to place expiring affordable housing tax on Nov. ballot

Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s office said that renewing the tax isn’t Cantrell’s “preference,” and that she wanted to propose a new set of property taxes next year instead.
by Michael Isaac Stein June 1, 2021 Updated June 1, 2021

Bricolage Academy educators vote in favor of unionization

The vote was 42-18 in favor of unionization.
by Marta Jewson May 28, 2021 Updated May 28, 2021

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