James Finn
State Politics Reporter at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
State Politics Reporter| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Political reporter for The Times-Picayune (@nolanews). New Orleans via CA, VT, Baton Rouge. ✉️: [email protected]. Profile photo by @davidgrunfeld
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4 days ago |
nola.com | James Finn
More than 100 people protested outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in downtown New Orleans Saturday, shouting slogans critical of President Donald Trump and hoisting signs condemning his sweeping immigration crackdown that has landed several high-profile university activists in Louisiana ICE facilities.
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6 days ago |
nola.com | James Finn
Donald Trump's overhaul of the U.S. Department of Justice has eroded the agency's legacy of independence and brought it nearer to serving as a cudgel against the president's enemies, two former top federal prosecutors for the New Orleans region said in a wide-ranging discussion Wednesday.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | James Finn
Six months ago, LaToya Cantrell appeared to be in imminent legal peril. The New Orleans mayor’s former bodyguard, a city police officer, had been charged in July with federal crimes, accused of lying on timesheets to conceal an illicit relationship with Cantrell. Then, in late September, a private electrical inspector whose business flowed through City Hall was indicted for allegedly bribing the mayor with football tickets and meals as he tried to shirk scrutiny over his business practices.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | James Finn
Three leading candidates for New Orleans mayor are making ambitious promises to breathe new life into the city's economy, taking note of deep resident frustrations captured by polling last year.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | James Finn
Voters this fall will have the chance to take a symbolic stand against job discrimination against people with felony convictions, the New Orleans City Council decided this week. The council on Thursday voted unanimously to put a measure before voters on Oct. 11 that would bar local laws that discriminate based upon workers past felonies. The vote spurred emotional testimony from people who had struggled to find work due to past convictions.
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