City Council to act on ordinances that would incentivize affordable housing. […]
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A closer look at the disaster response Trump calls one of FEMA’s best efforts. […]
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We know about the scheme to pay people to show up at meetings to support a new natural gas plant in New Orleans. But that was just a fraction of more than a million dollars the utility spent to burnish Entergy’s reputation, script support and monitor opponents. […]
The Orleans Parish School Board cast itself as a rescue squad in taking charge of Cypress Academy after the charter school announced, three days before summer vacation, that it would not be reopening in the fall. Some parents and education community leaders are wondering if the school board’s hands-off approach wasn’t the problem from which […]
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Civic participation is hard work that should be respected, not dissed. […]
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Projects range from a boat harbor to mental health services to relocation of an initial seven families […]
Entergy says a new plant can handle periods of unusually high demand, and it will protect against a catastrophic situation in which the city can’t get power. Energy experts and opponents say the company’s argument doesn’t hold up, and it has an incentive to build new facilities rather than improve transmission reliability. […]
