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Vote to reject the state’s costly push to fill Louisiana jails and prisons
Voters have a chance on March 29 to turn the tide against Gov. Jeff Landry and his legislature’s extensive, expensive plans ...
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Behind The Lens episode 264 Part II: ‘Our Katrina narrative’
The Lens spent January talking to Lower 9th Ward residents to tell their stories, narratives a Super Bowl committee wanted to ...
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True Terror: New Orleans Likely Not Prepared for Much
"As a researcher who has closely observed, personally experienced local struggles," says the writer, Bethany Garfield, "it’s with a heavy heart that I say that investigations into the state of our ...
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Behind the scenes of Super Bowl shelter planning
Emails show that state officials considered creating a shelter in a barge moored in Industrial Canal — and that prominent ...
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Behind The Lens episode 264 Part I: ‘Our Katrina narrative’
The Lens spent January talking to Lower 9th Ward residents to tell their stories, narratives a Super Bowl committee wanted to ...
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Council condemns mayor’s threat to scuttle $20 million settlement with Orleans Parish School Board
Orleans Parish School Board finance chair Olin Parker, alongside 30 officials, speaks to reporters at a joint press conference of the Orleans Parish School Board and New Orleans City Council after New ...
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She saw ‘a public-health crisis’ and opened a clinic in the emptied Lower 9
Alice Craft-Kerney outside her brother's former house in the Holy Cross section of the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood, where a few dozen people weathered Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaks.
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Embracing Katrina narratives
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. Michael Hecht, the CEO Of Greater New Orleans ...
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Super Bowl planners: ‘Anticipate any features of the [Lower 9] neighborhood which could be used by media to substantiate Katrina narrative’
The rundown Katrina memorial in the Lower 9th Ward, which stands in the neutral ground of North Claiborne at Tennessee Street. (Photo by La'Shance Perry / The Lens) This is the introduction to a ...