James Finn

2 weeks ago | nola.com | James Finn

Months of plummeting crime rates in New Orleans have eased voters' worries about public safety — but credit still isn't going to Mayor LaToya Cantrell, whose job approval sank below 30% in a new poll. The mayor's approval ratings have dwindled over her eight-year tenure, but hit a new low of just 27% in the new survey, commissioned by the New Orleans Crime Coalition and conducted by pollster Ron Faucheux.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Julia Guilbeau |James Finn

Four months ahead of a pivotal mayoral election in New Orleans, Helena Moreno is the early favorite to win the race, according to a poll commissioned by the New Orleans Crime Coalition. Nearly half of registered voters who participated in the survey said they would be most likely to vote for the city councilmember come October 11. Fellow Councilmember Oliver Thomas followed behind, with 22% of respondents naming him as their likely choice.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | James Finn

More than 100 people demonstrated peacefully in downtown New Orleans Monday against President Donald Trump's immigration agenda, criticizing immigration raids in the city and the administration's military crackdown on protesters in Los Angeles. The New Orleans demonstrators gathered outside the federal building on Poydras Street, saying they were showing solidarity with David Huerta, a union leader arrested and injured in Los Angeles during a protest there last week.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | James Finn

Jimmy Harris was on the edge of accomplishing the impossible. The soft-spoken state senator from New Orleans was hours from securing millions of dollars for a new power station for the city’s rickety flooding system. A Democrat, he had leveraged years-old relationships with Republican leaders, navigating the pressures of a polarized Legislature and an ascendant GOP governor to land the deal. Then he got a call.

3 weeks ago | nola.com | James Finn |Ben Myers

Federal agents last week detained at least 15 immigrant workers at the site of a major New Orleans flood control project, a massive sweep that raised fresh concerns about the long-delayed project’s timeline. Immigration agents swarmed the Mirabeau Water Garden worksite in the Gentilly neighborhood early Tuesday morning, according to Union Migrante, a New Orleans-based immigrant advocacy group.