Feb 1, 2025 · OPSB had sued because the city was skimming a portion off of the top of its OPSB tax payments; district officials agreed to settle last year, when the School Board realized it was facing a $36 million deficit. This is the introduction to a five-story project, The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives ...

Nov 18, 2024 · Securing Harrah’s Funding for Orleans schools and services to school kids. The City Council had set aside $8 million last year, to deal with the lawsuit, but in light of the district’s financial crisis, the Council came up with extra money and hastened the agreement, said Councilman Joe Giarrusso, pictured above, center.

Oct 21, 2021 · Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021 “What’s up with these cameras?” That’s what Dee Dee Green remembers thinking the first time she saw one of New Orleans’ police surveillance cameras in 2018, flashing red and blue lights over a community garden she manages in the city’s Hollygrove neighborhood.

Nov 11, 2024 · Scientists push for project completion . A group of more than 30 scientists around Louisiana recently co-authored a letter in support of CPRA’s Coastal Master Plan in the wake of news about the threat from the federal government.. The Barataria Basin in Plaquemines Parish is the site of a nearly $3 billion project to reconnect the Mississippi River to the estuary to restore wetlands and ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited except in the latter case as punishment for a crime.—Louisiana Constitution Article 1, § 3 . EVERY MORNING AT 5 O’CLOCK SHARP, Slim is roused from sleep by the overhead fluorescents that a guard outside the dormitory switches on at the breaker.Slim is 63, blind in one eye, suffering from cirrhosis and diabetes, thin as a rail.

Feb 1, 2025 · This is the introduction to a five-story project, The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives project. Last summer, in July, a group of influential New Orleanians gathered, with hopes of preparing the city for a national spotlight ahead of Super Bowl LIX.

Feb 1, 2025 · Every year on August 29 – the day that Katrina hit, in 2005 – Green’s close-knit family — siblings, cousins, nieces, nephews, and his children with their children — gathers by the place where the house once stood, in shirts that read “Roof Riders” over a photo of a painting by fellow Lower 9 native Ted Ellis.

Nov 20, 2024 · Though its score climbed a little, the NOLA Public Schools district received the same grade, a C, from the state of Louisiana for the third year in a row. The state’s A-F letter grades are particularly high-stakes for 12 charters, who …

Feb 1, 2025 · After an insinuation made by a Super Bowl planning committee, reporters from The Lens asked Lower 9 residents what Super Bowl visitors should see, plotted the points on a map, and documented the Katrina narratives that go with each landmark. The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New ...

Oct 28, 2024 · In an unprecedented challenge that could erase critical protections for people with disabilities, including students in public schools, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), arguing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is unconstitutional.