In-depth news and investigations for New Orleans | The Lens
2025年2月1日 · 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 ...
Behind The Lens episode 262: ‘A new generation’s fight’
2025年1月17日 · This week on Behind The Lens, in a unanimous vote on a controversial issue, the New Orleans City Council’s Utilities Committee has allowed local energy company Entergy New Orleans to sell its natural gas distribution system to a new and untested entity, Delta States Utilities.They cite job creation among other things, but critics are concerned about rate increases and the new company’s ...
Council condemns mayor’s threat to scuttle $20 million settlement …
2025年2月3日 · On Monday morning, a crowd of 30 officials – including state legislators, City Councilmembers, Orleans Parish School Board members, District Attorney Jason Williams, and school leaders – condemned Mayor LaToya Cantrell for trying to torpedo a $20 million settlement with the school district, which is trying to plug a deficit of …
Culturally rich, but unable to rebuild | The Lens
2025年2月1日 · This story is one of five stories in The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives project. Artist Lionel Milton, a Lower 9th Ward native, grew up steps away from New Orleans royalty , R&B singer Fats Domino, whose black and yellow house stands on Fats Domino Avenue, not far from Milton’s home at 1429 Flood St.
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Neighborhoods Watched
2021年10月21日 · 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.
Thwarted from connecting the Lower 9 to its wetland roots
2025年2月1日 · After Katrina, environmentalists built an overlook on Bayou Bienvenue to give the community access to the wetlands, which had been devastated by salt water from a now-closed canal called MR-GO. Recent construction threatens …
Though she was an infant when Katrina hit, she still feels its effects ...
2025年2月1日 · This story is one of five stories in The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives project. Excited for her birthday on Monday, Cedrionne Powell, 19, sat in her family’s house on Reynes Street in the Lower 9th Ward and flipped through her baby pictures in a stack of old photo albums.
Making the grade – or not. | The Lens
2025年1月28日 · Recently, when the Louisiana Department of Education issued its annual school letter grades, my school received an F. I founded the school, Noble Minds, in 2017. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Automatically, people see an F grade and think: bad. What immediately comes to mind are visions of a ...
Behind The Lens episode 260: 'Tough Transitions' | The Lens
2024年12月12日 · This week on Behind The Lens, decisions are in about schools after state test results were released and some families and teachers are now scrambling after the district announced two high schools would close.One will close next week and the other in May. And a dying and degraded swamp will have a shot at new life after the process to begin reconnecting it to the mighty Mississippi is now ...