Katie Jane Fernelius

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius

New Orleanians will have a new natural gas company in the next several weeks, after a recently formed company, Delta Utilities, officially takes control of Entergy New Orleans’ gas business. On Monday (June 16), representatives from the company told the New Orleans City Council that the transition should be seamless for customers – whose accounts will automatically transfer to the new company on July 1.

2 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius

This article was originally published by The Guardian. Sandy Nguyen has strong opinions about where the best shrimp in the US is produced. A second-generation shrimper in New Orleans, Nguyen maintains “our [Louisiana] shrimp tastesbetter than Florida shrimp or Mississippi shrimp or Texas shrimp”. Her family moved to the Gulf Coast from Vietnam during theJimmyCarter administration,and her dad, like many such immigrants to the area, worked as a fisher.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Katie Jane Fernelius

Protesters demonstrate outside U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise's office at Heritage Plaza in Metairie on May 22, 2025. (Katie Jane Fernelius/Verite News)NEW ORLEANS – For Harold John, a job with the federal government meant a more stable, comfortable life than the one he knew as a child. John grew up in the Melpomene Projects with his three sisters. Neither of his parents, both of who had grown up on rural farms in Louisiana, had obtained more than an elementary school education.

2 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius

For Harold John, a job with the federal government meant a more stable, comfortable life than the one he knew as a child. John grew up in the Melpomene Projects with his three sisters. Neither of his parents, both of who had grown up on rural farms in Louisiana, had obtained more than an elementary school education. John was able to finish high school, join the U.S. Navy and then get a job with the U.S. Postal Service, all of which helped carry him into the middle class in the 1980s.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Katie Jane Fernelius

Sandy Nguyen has strong opinions about where the best shrimp in the US is produced. A second-generation shrimper in New Orleans, Nguyen maintains “our [Louisiana] shrimp tastesbetter than Florida shrimp or Mississippi shrimp or Texas shrimp”. Her family moved to the Gulf Coast from Vietnam during theJimmyCarter administration,and her dad, like many such immigrants to the area, worked as a fisher. The business gave Nguyen a front-row seat to one of the nation’s most abundant sources of seafood.