The leader of the governor’s temporary shelter says they are fully staffed and genuinely ready to move people into permanent housing. But it is several miles from the Superdome and is seen by critics as a way to warehouse homeless people away from Super Bowl crowds.
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Posted inEnvironment
Getting Greenfield to pay what it promised
The Descendants Project sues, contending that public officials had no right to forgive Greenfield’s grain-elevator-project debts.
Posted inFiction
Kaleidoscope Reprise
This poem received second prize for poetry in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
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Top debate student couldn’t sway School Board to keep his school open
Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men closed Friday, and its students are now frantically trying to find spots to finish out the school year. Parents say that the school’s mid-year closing was a tragedy that could have been foreseen – and prevented.
Posted inEnvironment
Alabo Wharf deal gets slippery
In the Holy Cross Neighborhood, residents obtain Port emails showing that a modest grain terminal at the Alabo Wharf includes more phases—and now includes crude sunflower oil, shipped in from Turkey.
Posted inHealth
Fighting Act 246 in court
As advocates and lawyers file suit against the state, asking a judge to bar the reclassification of drugs used for medication abortion, women seeking IUDs and needing prenatal care say that they are also feeling the effects of the new law.
Posted inEnvironment
City Council committee allows Entergy New Orleans to sell its natural gas system
Though Councilmembers were swayed by job creation, critics said that the jobs pale in comparison to the rate increases and environmental effects that Orleans residents will now shoulder.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Towns across Louisiana clamor to build new juvenile detention centers
Local governments request more than $500 million to build regional and local juvenile-detention facilities — and to repair and construct some adult jails.
Posted inSchools
‘Tis the season for school closures
Four city schools are likely to close. Budget shortfall could top $49 million.