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5 days ago · 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.
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Dec 23, 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.
Waiting. | The Lens
5 days ago · The old man hated the cold. Hated how it seeped into his bones and dried his skin, made his knees and elbows hurt, sometimes his lower back. He hated standing by the sally port gate and rubbing his hands, waiting for his ride to come with a thick pillow of fog lying just off the ground out across the open fields, so he knew he would have to wait a while longer.
Licensing a troubled juvenile jail | The Lens
Oct 1, 2024 · A year ago, when Jackson Parish opened its new, unlicensed juvenile jail, kids complained of extended stints of solitary confinement, along with extensive abuse and violations. A DCFS inspection supported those claims, but the agency gave the jail a license anyway.
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 …
School Board seizes $20 million cash settlement, future funding, …
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.
Formosa Plastics returns to fight again - The Lens
Aug 19, 2024 · In July, the EPA proposed changing its listing of a key plastics ingredient, vinyl chloride, to a “high-priority chemical” under the Toxic Substances Control Act.. Vinyl chloride – a highly flammable gas and a human carcinogen known to cause liver cancer – is a building block of a plastic known as PVC, which is widely used in construction, for plumbing pipes and insulation for …
Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens, and Eric Schmid, St. Louis Public Radio
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To prevent suicide, New Orleans daughter urges states to let …
Nov 19, 2024 · Donna’s Law, which allows people to ban themselves from gun ownership, has proven one of the few areas of gun policy where Republicans and Democrats can agree. But it has made little headway in Louisiana, home of the bill’s namesake.