Karli Winfrey, Verite, Louisiana Illuminator The New Orleans City Council, following the footsteps of other local governments in Cook County, Illinois, and Toledo, Ohio, passed a last-minute line item in early December to the city’s 2023 budget: a $1.3 million expenditure that is earmarked to be used to erase more …
Read More »‘This Is Blackmail’: New Orleans Denied Flood Funds Over Opposition to Abortion Ban
Progressives are sounding the alarm about the lengths to which GOP officials appear willing to go to advance their deeply unpopular and reactionary agenda after Louisiana’s State Bond Commission, at the urging of right-wing Attorney General Jeff Landry, once again denied flood prevention resources to New Orleans due to the …
Read More »Orleans DA orders ‘full review’ of Michelle Odinet’s work as prosecutor
Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams has ordered a complete review of all cases during the ’90s when Judge Michelle Odinet was a prosecutor. Odinet is on unpaid suspension pending the outcome of more than 100 complaints filed with the Louisiana Judiciary Commission over a video that has drawn national …
Read More »Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Requirement
On Saturday, a federal appeals court temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers. The Republican attorneys general of Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and Utah, as well as several private companies, filed petitions on Friday challenging the mandate in the U.S. 5th Circuit …
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