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Jeff Adelson

New Orleans

Data Reporter at The New York Times

Politics, drains and data: three things that work best when clean. Staff writer for The Times-Picayune and The Advocate. Reach me at [email protected]

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  • 3 weeks ago | nola.com | Patrick Wall |Jeff Adelson

    Jacqueline McCardie wants badly to put her grandson in a new school. The public elementary that 11-year-old Jah’Derrick attends is crowded and outdated, and the baby-faced fourth grader says he gets bullied. But McCardie, 62, is a single guardian on a fixed income, so her only real option is the local public school in Winnfield, the small town in north-central Louisiana where they live.

  • 1 month ago | nola.com | Sophie Kasakove |Jeff Adelson

    Like many residents of her tight-knit Fairgrounds neighborhood, Cynthia Fransen can rattle off the names of her neighbors, their children, and how long they've lived on her block of Crete Street. And days before the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival kicked into gear just a few blocks from Fransen's teal, terracotta-roofed home, she also pointed to all the homes on her block that typically host short-term rental guests during festival time.

  • 1 month ago | nola.com | Sophie Kasakove |Ben Myers |Jeff Adelson

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  • 2 months ago | theadvocate.com | Joseph Cranney |Jeff Adelson |Ben Myers

    Public safety consultants working behind closed doors to examine the City of New Orleans’ emergency tactics flagged communication breakdowns that persisted weeks after the deadly New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street, newly released emails show. Those consultants also identified a “sparse” and “overstretched” New Orleans Police Department limited in its ability to gather the sort of intelligence that would prevent future attacks.

  • 2 months ago | nola.com | Joseph Cranney |Jeff Adelson |Ben Myers

    Public safety consultants working behind closed doors to examine the City of New Orleans’ emergency tactics flagged communication breakdowns that persisted weeks after the deadly New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street, newly released emails show. Those consultants also identified a “sparse” and “overstretched” New Orleans Police Department limited in its ability to gather the sort of intelligence that would prevent future attacks.

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Jeff Adelson
Jeff Adelson @jadelson
7 Nov 24

RT @aegallo: Wanted to share an exciting job opportunity with the @NOLAnews/@theadvocatebr investigative team! We're hiring an investigativ…

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21 Aug 24

RT @aegallo: Do you want to lead investigative journalism in one of the newsiest, most interesting places in the country? Come be our inves…

Jeff Adelson
Jeff Adelson @jadelson
27 Jun 24

RT @emily_woodruff_: Exactly how bad is New Orleans' dysfunction? Here, it takes almost a year for a pothole to be filled. In Memphis, it's…