Katie Jane Fernelius
Journalist covering local government in New Orleans for @veritenewsnola. Member of @dstodayunion. Also, writer and producer. 📧: [email protected]
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2 days ago |
veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius
Longstanding deficiencies in the region’s transmission system caused a forced blackout that left more than 100,000 southeast Louisiana households and businesses without lights or air conditioning during a sweltering Memorial Day weekend, officials told members of the New Orleans City Council during a Tuesday (June 3) council committee meeting.
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1 week ago |
veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius
The New Orleans City Council introduced an ordinance Wednesday (May 28) that would require local criminal justice agencies — from the Municipal and Traffic Court to the Coroner’s Office — to use the city’s accounting and contracting software when spending city funds. But the ordinance is aimed, in particular, at Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson. More than 70% of the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office’s $91 million budget comes from direct city appropriations.
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2 weeks ago |
africasacountry.com | Katie Jane Fernelius |Sarah Katz-Lavigne |Jana Hönke
On September 13, 2022, the co-founder of Afropolitan, Chika Uwazie, rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange, loudly announcing their presence on the bullish frontier of Web3 start-ups. To its advocates, Web3 refers to an imagined future for the internet in which control is wrested from the giant tech companies by online communities facilitated by blockchain technologies.
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2 weeks ago |
shorturl.at | Katie Jane Fernelius
Speaking before the New Orleans City Council on Tuesday (May 20), Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson blamed structural problems and the “intentional wrongdoing” of at least one employee for a recent jailbreak at the Orleans Justice Center, which saw 10 people escape from the city’s jail on Friday. By Tuesday’s council meeting, which grew contentious at times, just four had been apprehended and re-arrested, leaving six men still at large.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Katie Jane Fernelius
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell speaks at a Jan. 19. 2021, commemoration service for those who died of COVID-19 in New Orleans. (City of New Orleans livestream)NEW ORLEANS – When Congress passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) in March 2021, it allocated $350 billion in assistance to state and local governments – providing the largest infusion of cash to local governments since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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