Disciplinary incidents dropped sharply within the Orleans Justice Center with the advent of electronic tablets, which stay on for 17 hours a day, bringing those in the jail new options — movies, music, videogames, and e-messages — all of which are tied to new charges — 50 cents for an e-message and about a penny a minute for streaming content.
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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.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Louisiana is giving second chances to bad policy. It should be extending those second chances to our neighbors.
Some of the most dangerous and costly new Louisiana laws went into effect today – and their effects are compounded by massive cuts in the social and support services that are proven to prevent crime. Students of Louisiana history know that this will not work.
Posted inEnvironment
D is for Drinking Water?
The Carrollton plant’s drinking-water grade fell to a “D.” But that doesn’t mean the water coming from New Orleans faucets today is unsafe, state health department says.
Posted inEnvironment
Flood of suggestions
Recommendations for fixes to the city’s chronically troubled Sewerage & Water Board are now flowing from Gov. Jeff Landry’s task force and from the Water Justice Fund, which issued a report earlier this year. Advocates warn that, without a new revenue structure that includes tax-exempt properties, customers could shoulder the financial burden for citywide problems.
Posted inNews
Matthew Kincaid: Strategies that Cede Power to Students
An excerpt from Matthew Kincaid’s new book Freedom Teaching.
Posted inNews
‘Auld Len Synes’ – Top 2023 stories
In the 7th Ward, the Buttermilk Drop – one of the city’s top picks for home-delivery breakfasts – scrambled to pay its December bills, after a hacker switched banking information linked to the bakery’s Uber Eats account. In September, four months after the death of Calvin Cains III at the hands of Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s […]
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 223: ‘History and art everywhere you look’
Nick Chrastil and La’Shance Perry on the NOPD’s plans to use drones which concerns privacy advocates. Some of the city’s iconic crescent and star water meter covers are being replaced by generic looking lids to make way for “smart meters” which could, if they work properly, help resolve the agency’s notorious inflated bills.
Posted inIn the N.O.
Judging a block by its covers
THIS WEEK, a Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans contractor in a neon-green vest quietly made his way through a block of Mid-City, lifting the round metal disks out of front sidewalks and yards to install new “smart” water meters. But as he left, one thing was missing: the water-meter covers embossed with a […]
Posted inOpinion
NOPD chief search: what we should be looking for
Among other things, look for a skilled manager, an innovator, who can, despite low manpower, devise strategies to fight crime and move the department away from its long-standing culture of favoritism.