In-depth news and investigations for New Orleans | The Lens
2025年1月15日 · ‘A make-believe person in a make-believe world’ “I keep paper and pen with me at all times because, like the most dynamic dreams, creativity is as wispy as Louisiana mist and dissipates quickly if not seized,” writes John Corley, associate editor of the Angolite, who says that, in his mind, he still lives in 1989, ‘the year I fell.’
Pairing of Arctic air and moisture from the Gulf created record ...
1 天前 · On Tuesday, the National Weather Service office for New Orleans officially recorded 8 inches of snow at the Louis Armstrong International Airport. (Some citizens recorded additional measurements, including Minnesota native Marta Jewson, a reporter for The Lens, who, armed with a metal ruler ...
The shelter that the Super Bowl made | The Lens
2025年1月15日 · One of the state’s relocation notice. Photo by Katy Reckdahl / The Lens. As ‘Transition Center’ announced, relocation notices go up. In a Monday-morning press release, Gov. Jeff Landry announced that the new shelter — dubbed “The Transition Center” — …
Neighborhoods Watched
2021年10月21日 · Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021 “What’s up with these cameras?” That’s what Dee Dee Green remembers thinking the first time she saw one of New Orleans’ police surveillance cameras in 2018, flashing red and blue lights over a community garden she manages in the city’s Hollygrove neighborhood.
Behind The Lens episode 262: ‘A new generation’s fight’
2025年1月17日 · This week on Behind The Lens, in a unanimous vote on a controversial issue, the New Orleans City Council’s Utilities Committee has allowed local energy company Entergy New Orleans to sell its natural gas distribution system to a new and untested entity, Delta States Utilities.They cite job creation among other things, but critics are concerned about rate increases and the new company’s ...
Neighborhoods Watched: Safety
2021年10月21日 · Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021. Clint Carter was suffering from diabetic nerve pain and waiting for a ride to the hospital when he was arrested in June 2018, he told The Lens later that year during a phone call from the Avoyelles Correctional Center in Cottonport, about three hours northwest of New Orleans.
Latest federal Water Resources Development Act addresses …
6 天之前 · A newly passed federal law emphasizes flood control along the Mississippi River—work that advocates believe is critical as the river basin sees more frequent and severe extreme weather events due to climate change.. The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) is passed by Congress every two years. It gives authority to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to undertake projects and studies to ...
Neighborhoods Watched: The Cost of a Camera - The Lens
2021年10月21日 · Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021. The upfront cost of a single New Orleans surveillance camera ranges from $1,094 to $8,263, depending on their capabilities — like zoom, pan tilt and automatic movement tracking — according to city purchase orders and invoices obtained by The Lens.. But the price of the camera itself is only the beginning.
Getting Greenfield to pay what it promised | The Lens
2025年1月13日 · Jo and Joy Banner, co-founders of The Descendants Project, announced the nonprofit’s acquisition of the Woodland Plantation in LaPlace, La. The plantation, site of the largest slave revolt in American history, is now under Black ownership for the first time in its 231-year history. Photo by La ...
‘Tis the season for school closures | The Lens
2024年12月10日 · A KIPP Leadership student on the playground. (La’Shance Perry/The Lens) Credit: La'Shance Perry / Education – The Lens Closing campuses, changing communities. King School has faced challenges over the years, including a longstanding non-compliance order for special education services, facility problems and allegations of nepotism.But for years, its lower-school campus was a district ...