Tag: Katy Reckdahl
Behind The Lens: Why New Orleans keeps losing power in fair weather (audio)
New Orleans experiences an exceptional number of fair-weather power outages as aging and failing equipment raises concerns across the city.
The Lens Earns 11 Honors at Press Club of New Orleans Journalism Awards
The winners include three first places
Consolidation or retaliation? Republican lawmakers move to eliminate the job Calvin Duncan won in a landslide election
Criminal justice reporter Bernard Smith and editor Katy Reckdahl examine Senate Bill 256 and the effort to eliminate the position won by Calvin Duncan, raising questions about consolidation, political power, and the will of voters.
Finding hard-fought stability after the storm
“There’s something full circle about our Katrina baby protecting swimmers in the Lower 9th Ward from deep water,” Lens editor Katy Reckdahl writes in an essay about the city and her son, who was born 23 hours before Katrina struck the city.
