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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1 week 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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1 week ago |
newsfromthestates.com | Katie Jane Fernelius
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. For New Orleans, that money represented a desperately needed lifeline. The city had been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. It was an early hotspot for the virus.
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1 week ago |
veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius
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. For New Orleans, that money represented a desperately needed lifeline. The city had been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. It was an early hotspot for the virus.
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1 week ago |
veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius
In early 2023, Matt Wisdom, a local tech entrepreneur known for founding the company Turbosquid — which he had recently sold to Shutterstock for $75 million — pitched New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s top aide on his next big idea: What if the city put QR codes on potholes? As Wisdom explained it, residents could scan the QR code, which could be put on a cone above a pothole, and get the most up-to-date information on the status of the city’s plan to repair it.
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4 weeks ago |
chronicle-tribune.com | Katie Jane Fernelius
Defying New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, the New Orleans City Council voted on Thursday to dedicate $10 million to New Orleans public schools — partly fulfilling the terms of a legal settlement that Cantrell rejected. The council also voted to end the city’s longtime practice of charging fees for collecting property and sales taxes on behalf of other local governmental entities, the source of the legal dispute with the Orleans Parish School Board.
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