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Category: WWNO

Stories and collaborations produced in partnership with WWNO, New Orleans Public Radio. This category features audio reports, interviews, and joint investigations that bring local issues to life through sound, storytelling, and public service journalism.

Grain Terminal in the Lower 9: ‘It’s not going to be good for us.’

The Port of New Orleans plans to “revitalize” the Alabo Street Wharf into a terminal for organic grain. Neighbors in Holy Cross are concerned about grain dust, pests, rodents and a steady line of railcars passing right outside their doors.
by Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens, and Eva Tesfaye, WWNO November 1, 2024 Updated November 14, 2024

To bring insurance companies back to Louisiana, some suggest tackling it as a federal issue 

At the height of hurricane season, Congressional candidate Devin Davis announces a plan to combat Louisiana’s home-insurance crisis. U.S. Rep. Troy Carter says he’s focused on a more apt federal concern: FEMA’s flood-hazard ratings.
by Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens, and Eva Tesfaye, WWNO September 2, 2024 Updated September 9, 2024

Rent to increase on FEMA trailers for Louisianans impacted by Hurricane Ida

by Kezia Setyawan May 23, 2023 Updated May 23, 2023

Behind The Lens episode 88: ‘Having to work 10 times as hard’

"Text me," maybe! How will data from Mayor Cantrell's new campaign texts be used? And, a panel discussion on color, coronavirus, and what's left of the "American Dream": local broadcaster Don P, community activist Jenny Yanez and Lens columnist Crystal Zheng join the conversation.
by Tom Wright July 3, 2020 Updated July 3, 2020

WWNO: Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana law in major abortion rights case

In a double-win for reproductive rights advocates, the court found that abortion providers do have the legal standing to sue over state laws, on behalf of their patients' constitutional right to an abortion.
by Rosemary Westwood, WWNO June 29, 2020 Updated June 29, 2020

WWNO: Louisiana sees dramatic one-day spike in coronavirus cases

Cases climbed by nearly 1,400 statewide.
by Rosemary Westwood, WWNO June 23, 2020 Updated June 23, 2020

Pregnant in 2020: What it means to have a baby during a global pandemic and anti-racism uprising

From WWNO's Crescent to Capitol.
by Rosemary Westwood, WWNO June 9, 2020 Updated June 9, 2020

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