In-depth news and investigations for New Orleans | The Lens
Jan 16, 2025 · ‘A make-believe person in a make-believe world’ “I keep paper and pen with me at all times because, like the most dynamic dreams, creativity is as wispy as Louisiana mist and dissipates quickly if not seized,” writes John Corley, associate editor of the Angolite, who says that, in his mind, he still lives in 1989, ‘the year I fell.’
Compare 2024 school performance scores for New Orleans charters
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 …
Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice to end contract with troubled ...
Nov 25, 2024 · ‘Nothing short of scheming’ Back in August, OJJ claimed in a court filing that it is no longer utilizing the Jackson Parish Jail as a state secure-care facility.. But the jail still holds some individuals who are — to some degree, at least — within OJJ custody.
Louisiana could be out billions, if controversial coastal-restoration ...
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 ...
Alabo Wharf deal gets slippery | The Lens
Dec 20, 2024 · Emails reveal Sunrise making plans for “Phase 2,” involving vegetable oil. Holy Cross residents have been sharing an August email exchange between Sunrise Foods and the Port of New Orleans, which describes a second phase of revitalization, confirming neighbors’ concerns that they were not being given the whole story.. Holy Cross Neighborhood Association board member Jeffrey Wittenbrink ...
District Attorney Jason Williams will cede some New Orleans
Feb 5, 2024 · Over the past three years, Williams backed off some of his more progressive pledges. He now routinely charges kids as adults, uses the habitual-offender bill, and has applied pressure to judges to set higher bonds.When asked about a year ago about his shifting stances, Williams said, “There are campaign promises, and there’s an oath.
Fiction Archives | The Lens
Dec 26, 2024 · The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.
‘Servitude’ | The Lens
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.
Neighborhoods Watched
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.
'Resentment is not inevitable' | The Lens
Dec 26, 2024 · This has varied over time. For 23 years, I was confined to solitary, which afforded me all of the time I ever needed to write. Since being released into general population in 2016, I have written when and where I could.