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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.

COVID-19 cases more than triple in New Orleans schools, 716 quarantining

The district is tracking 54 active cases across 27 schools.
by Marta Jewson November 19, 2020 Updated November 20, 2020

As reality shows face criticism over privacy, ‘Nightwatch,’ which follows on-duty EMTs, resumes filming in New Orleans

The return comes as similar reality shows face national scrutiny over exploitation. And COVID-19 could pose further challenges.
by Philip Kiefer November 18, 2020 Updated November 19, 2020

New Orleans Police Department using facial recognition despite years of denial

Explaining its previous denials, the department said that it doesn’t employ its own facial recognition software. Instead, it accesses the technology through state and federal partners. An ACLU lawyer said that was a ‘distinction without a difference.’
by Michael Isaac Stein November 12, 2020 Updated November 12, 2020

‘I hope the voters kill it:’ Library board member comes out against Cantrell-backed tax proposal on December ballot

Board member Andrea Neighbours also criticized a proposed policy from the Cantrell administration to change employee discipline and grievance policies.
by Michael Isaac Stein November 11, 2020 Updated November 11, 2020

‘An entirely different ball game’: City Council begins 2021 budget hearings under fog of uncertainty

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a new president and Mayor Cantrell’s property tax proposal make it tough to predict how much money the city will have to work with next year.
by Michael Isaac Stein November 9, 2020 Updated November 9, 2020

DA candidates Landrum, Williams advance to December runoff election

Landrum led most of the night. The contest came down to whether Williams or former Judge Arthur Hunter would face her in December.
by Nick Chrastil November 4, 2020 Updated November 4, 2020

Mayor may have committed misdemeanor by publicizing confidential information on Civil Service Commissioner

Days after a story about the Civil Service Commission, Cantrell sent a confidential Ethics Board letter to The Lens.
by Michael Isaac Stein November 2, 2020 Updated November 2, 2020

Cantrell gives update ahead of vital weekend for Hurricane Zeta recovery

by Michael Isaac Stein October 30, 2020 Updated October 30, 2020

Edwards, speaking in New Orleans, briefs public on Zeta damage

The biggest problem locally is mass power outages. Edwards said that while bringing everyone back online could take days, major transmission lines took little damage.
by Michael Isaac Stein October 29, 2020 Updated October 29, 2020

‘We will get impacts from this’: City officials prep for Hurricane Zeta

Wind, not rain, is expected to be the major threat during this fast-moving storm.
by Michael Isaac Stein October 28, 2020 Updated October 28, 2020

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