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Council condemns mayor’s threat to scuttle $20 million settlement with Orleans Parish ...
OPSB had sued because the city was skimming a portion off of the top of its OPSB tax payments; district officials agreed to ...
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Super Bowl planners: ‘Anticipate any features of the [Lower 9] neighborhood which could ...
This is the introduction to a five-story project, The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives project. Last summer, in July, a ...
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She saw ‘a public-health crisis’ and opened a clinic in the emptied Lower 9
"Alice saved my life," neighbors say. In 2007, Alice Craft-Kerney helped to launch a post-Katrina clinic that was invaluable ...
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St. John the Baptist Parish cleared in First Amendment lawsuit
A jury found that the defendants didn’t violate Joy Banner’s right to free speech or the Louisiana Open Meetings Law. But ...
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Though she was an infant when Katrina hit, she still feels its effects today
Her family house has framed her world. With its doorway, marked with penciled hash marks to show her height over the years, ...
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Thwarted from connecting the Lower 9 to its wetland roots
After Katrina, environmentalists built an overlook on Bayou Bienvenue to give the community access to the wetlands, which had ...
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Trial begins in First Amendment suit against St. John the Baptist Parish
Joy Banner of The Descendants Project brought the lawsuit after the Parish Council chairman threatened her with prosecution ...
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Behind The Lens episode 264 (part I): ‘Our Katrina narrative’
This week on Behind The Lens, with the Super Bowl approaching, when the eyes of the world would once again be on New Orleans, Governor Jeff Landry tasked a committee, dubbed “The Super Gras ...