Joseph Cranney
Reporter| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Investigative reporter, The Times-Picayune | @LMattersNews founder | "My journalistic range is a catalyst for change." – @blackthought
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Joseph Cranney
Four months into a year that started with one of the deadliest nights in the city’s history, New Orleans law enforcement leaders said Tuesday that violent crime rates have dropped significantly compared to the first half of last year, with murders down 34% even after the terrorist attack that killed 14 on New Year’s Day. New Orleans is on track to have one of its most peaceful years on record just two years after a skyrocketing murder rate made the city one of the country’s deadliest.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Joseph Cranney
Two years ago, after Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson’s proposal to double a tax that her office collects took an epic pounding — losing by 91% of the vote — some wondered if Hutson had come up on the wrong end of the most lopsided election in city history. Saturday, her office was named the winner of what might have been its closest. After more than 25,000 ballots were counted, Hutson’s latest measure to renew a decade-old tax passed by two votes, an unheard of, almost impossible margin.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Joseph Cranney
By an almost surreal, historically close margin, Orleans Parish voters appeared to hand Sheriff Susan Hutson a huge reprieve Saturday, approving what Hutson described for months as a critical renewal of a tax that funds around a fifth of the jail's budget. The renewal of the decade-old Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office millage passed by just two votes, after more than 25,400 votes were counted, according to unofficial results. Hutson's measure had 12,715 "yes" votes, with 12,713 voting against.
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2 weeks ago |
nola.com | Joseph Cranney
In a hearing Wednesday on Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s push to eliminate "sanctuary" policies for immigrants in the New Orleans jail, a federal judge peppered a state lawyer with questions over what she at one point called “insufficient” arguments for the attorney general to be allowed to intevene in the case. U.S. Magistrate Judge Janis van Meerveld didn’t rule Wednesday on Murrill’s request, filed earlier this year in a decade-old lawsuit brought by a former pair of inmates.
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2 weeks ago |
nola.com | Joseph Cranney
Mysterious campaign signs have cropped up around New Orleans that falsely attack a tax renewal from the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, leaving Sheriff Susan Hutson scrambling to correct the record before the referendum goes to a vote next Saturday. “No New Taxes,” the signs, which don’t disclose who made them, read in all capital letters.
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The New Orleans sheriff's request to voters to renew a tax that funds about 20% of the jail's budget passed by TWO votes, after 25,000 votes counted, according to unofficial results. https://t.co/xRcasD2XRD
With about three-quarters of precincts in, the New Orleans sheriff's millage trails by 76 votes. https://t.co/oBWh3FETBY
With about three-quarters of precincts in, the New Orleans sheriff's millage trails by 76 votes. https://t.co/oBWh3FETBY
About 6,000 votes just came in and Hutson has opened up a tiny lead, 111 votes. About 36% of precincts are in. https://t.co/TKQLPG3Ksr
About 6,000 votes just came in and Hutson has opened up a tiny lead, 111 votes. About 36% of precincts are in. https://t.co/TKQLPG3Ksr
The New Orleans sheriff asked voters to renew a decade-old tax that funds around 20% of her badly understaffed department and the results are close. She's down about 130 votes with 5% precincts in. https://t.co/0nzm15r0xy