6 天之前 · 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 …

4 天之前 · 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 …

6 天之前 · Despite an insinuation made by a Super Bowl planning committee, the Lower 9’s Katrina stories should not be discounted, say residents of the area also known as "'Cross The Canal." The Lens asked Lower 9 residents what Super Bowl visitors should see – and what Katrina narratives go along with those landmarks.

6 天之前 · 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.

6 天之前 · 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 …

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.

6 天之前 · 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 ...

2025年1月28日 · I met Pableaux in the late 1990s. Though we both lived in New Orleans, we met at a Southern Foodways symposium in Oxford, Ms. He was a food writer then and a few years later he would publish his book, Eating New Orleans: From French Quarter Creole Dining to the Perfect Poboy. It was published in the summer of 2005.

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 ...

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 ...