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. […]
Absentee owners proved inadequate to the challenge. […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
Focus should be on transit riders, not cars. […]
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Plan would drop stops, block intersections. […]
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Opposition to capital punishment gains momentum on the right. […]
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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 […]
A failing wastewater reservoir threatens St. James Parish. The Orleans school district faces a budget shortfall at Harney elementary, and it can’t access federal funds earmarked for the school. […]
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Three New Orleans City Council members will introduce a resolution to “rescind and repeal” the council’s March 2018 approval of Entergy New Orleans’ proposed $211 million power plant in eastern New Orleans. […]
