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Behind The Lens episode 265: ‘That’s just a payday loan’
Nick Chrastil on records that show plans for Gov. Jeff Landry's "transitional center" were well underway before the terrorist ...
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Great River Road dropped from consideration as a National Historic Landmark, for now
The head of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and the president of St. John Parish said the West Bank is “now ...
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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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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 ...
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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.