The plan will ad $4 to the average residential customer’s monthly bills, but the City Council, Entergy and advocates all agree that savings will outweigh costs.
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Affordable Housing Crisis: Next Step? We never took the first step.
Because the people of Louisiana did not support Proposition #4, to give New Orleans the chance to create tax relief programs to address the affordable housing crisis, we must ask the Mayor and City Council to #PutHousingFirst and roll back our millage rates.
Posted inSchools
NOLA Public Schools holding four community meetings on plans for school buildings, district properties
District officials will present plans for long-term and surplus property and take input from the public at four meetings over the next two weeks.
Posted inOpinion
Merger ends a newspaper war, but the bloodletting may not be over
Absentee owners proved inadequate to the challenge.
Posted inInside the News Room
Week in Review: Fired New Beginnings ‘whistleblower’ asks board to rehire him
Fired New Beginnings ‘whistleblower’ asks board to rehire him A former New Beginnings Schools Foundation employee who raised a red flag on what he said are suspicious grade changes at John F. Kennedy High School asked for his job back at a special meeting of the charter school network’s governing board Thursday night. Runell King […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Political connections, contributions helped utility consultants keep lucrative contracts for decades, former council members say
New Orleans City Council members have come and gone over the past three decades. But a group of consultants who help them regulate Entergy, and charge millions per year, have remained remarkably consistent.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Transportation planner sees merit in speeding up Canal streetcar service
Focus should be on transit riders, not cars.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Going off the grid: Canal streetcars rumble toward a big mistake
Plan would drop stops, block intersections.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
A young conservative makes the case for ending Louisiana’s death penalty
Opposition to capital punishment gains momentum on the right.
Posted inInside the News Room
Week in Review: Civil rights lawsuit over fake subpoenas, witness arrests allowed to go forward, judge rules
Civil rights lawsuit over fake subpoenas, witness arrests allowed to go forward, judge rules A federal lawsuit against Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro and several of his prosecutors — alleging that they violated people’s civil rights through the use of fake subpoenas and unlawfully obtained arrest warrants against witnesses and crime victims — will be allowed […]