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Council condemns mayor’s threat to scuttle $20 million settlement with Orleans Parish ...
OPSB had sued because the city was skimming a portion off of the top of its OPSB tax payments; district officials agreed to ...
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Super Bowl planners: ‘Anticipate any features of the [Lower 9] neighborhood which could ...
This is the introduction to a five-story project, The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives project. Last summer, in July, a ...
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She saw ‘a public-health crisis’ and opened a clinic in the emptied Lower 9
"Alice saved my life," neighbors say. In 2007, Alice Craft-Kerney helped to launch a post-Katrina clinic that was invaluable ...
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Embracing Katrina narratives
After an insinuation made by a Super Bowl planning committee, reporters from The Lens asked Lower 9 residents what Super Bowl ...
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Thwarted from connecting the Lower 9 to its wetland roots
After Katrina, environmentalists built an overlook on Bayou Bienvenue to give the community access to the wetlands, which had ...
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Though she was an infant when Katrina hit, she still feels its effects today
Her family house has framed her world. With its doorway, marked with penciled hash marks to show her height over the years, ...
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Category: Embracing our narratives
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