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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 |
veritenews.org | Halle Parker
Six Louisiana environmental and community groups are asking a federal court to bar the state from enforcing a law that makes it harder for residents in industrial areas to share data collected from their own air monitoring of petrochemical facilities. The state law went into effect just under a year ago with the support of the petrochemical industry, whose facilities are excluded from the law.
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2 weeks ago |
veritenews.org | John Gray
A group of protesters headed from New Orleans to the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, La. on Thursday (May 22) to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student and pro-Palestine activist who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March and has since been held in detention. Khalil was in immigration court Thursday for a hearing on a motion from his attorneys to terminate his deportation proceedings and release him.
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3 weeks ago |
veritenews.org | Michelle Liu
The bright lights shone over a 9th Ward nightclub in the late 1940s and 1950s. Finely dressed people came to hear great music, see great entertainers and dine on great food. Everyone agreed that Club Desire was the place to be.
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