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Oct 22, 2024 — The Port of New Orleans plans to “revitalize” the Alabo Street Wharf into a terminal for organic grain. Neighbors in Holy Cross are concerned about grain dust, pests, rodents and a steady line of railcars passing right outside their doors. by Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens, and Eva Tesfaye, WWNO November 1, 2024.
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Promises Unfulfilled: The Politics of School Choice
2 days ago — by Luis Mirón November 5, 2024. Facebook. X. The writer, Luis Mirón, believes that -- despite the big money bestowed upon pro-charter OPSB candidates in today's election -- belief in the success of the all-charter charter district in the city is becoming more and more difficult to sustain, especially among low-to-middle income minority families.
Grain Terminal in the Lower 9: ‘It’s not going to be good for us.’
6 days ago — The 5.5-mile man-made waterway, which runs along the edge of Holy Cross, separates the Lower 9th Ward from the rest of New Orleans. In the Lower 9, residents are now surrounded by water on three sides. In Holy Cross, the Lower 9 neighborhood that hugs the river, many neighbors use the Mississippi’s levee for outdoor recreation. But their ...
'Auld Len Synes' – Top 2023 stories | The Lens
Dec 31, 2023 — A yellow lawn sign in St. John the Baptist Parish shows opposition to the Greenfield Grain Terminal. Photo by La’Shance Perry / The Lens Credit: La'Shance Perry. Several historic sites would suffer “adverse effects” from construction of gigantic Greenfield Grain Terminal, says review of rural St. John the Baptist Parish – which was recently placed at the top spot of a nationwide list ...
Neighborhoods Watched
Oct 21, 2021 — The city only directly owns 555 cameras, which are plotted on the map below. The other 420 live video feeds come through a program called Safecam Platinum, which allows private residents and businesses to hook up their cameras to the city system. This is a map of 48 participating Safecam Platinum businesses.
Neighborhoods Watched: Safety
Oct 21, 2021 — Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans’ violent crime and homicide rates have oscillated. Homicides fell to their lowest level in decades in 2019. But in 2020, New Orleans followed a national trend of spiking homicide rates that has continued into 2021. In search of an explanation, some looked at how policing tactics changed in 2020.
Helping young people leap hurdles | The Lens
Oct 8, 2024 — It’s time, they say, for a NORD that works, for police officers who care about and protect them and their loved ones, and for easily accessible ways to improve entrepreneurship skills and financial literacy. There’s a song titled, “Maybe God is Tryin’ To Tell You Somethin’.”. These young people are telling us. They are angry and afraid.
Neighborhoods Watched: The Toolbox - The Lens
The Toolbox. A list of the police surveillance tools at the disposal of the city of New Orleans. Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021. One of the biggest hurdles to surveillance oversight is simply accounting for all the tools at the city's disposal. New Orleans’ surveillance apparatus is made up ...
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The mission of The Lens is to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast by providing the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance. With a staff of experienced investigative reporters and pundits, The Lens merges the accuracy, fairness and thoroughness of traditional journalism with […]