February 2024 FOR THE RECORD On January 10, the New Orleans City Council Community Development Committee met to discuss the next step in New Orleans’ dissolution of homeless encampments. The City aims to... Jesse Lu Baum
January 2024 FOR THE RECORD On December 1, the New Orleans City Council voted 5-1 to give Shell (formerly Royal Dutch Shell) a 15-year tax break valued at $21.6 million to build their new regional... Jesse Lu Baum
December 2023 FOR THE RECORD On October 30 the New Orleans City Council Quality of Life Committee held a meeting to discuss the official plan to end street homelessness in New Orleans. UNITY New Orleans was... Jesse Lu Baum
December 2023 Have a Nice Night with Ann Glaviano’s HEATWAVE! To attend the decade-strong HEATWAVE! dance party might mean to twist, do the swim, and maybe even pony—but most importantly, it means listening to Ann Glaviano play her records... Jesse Lu Baum
November 2023 FOR THE RECORD On October 11 the New Orleans City Council held a special Governmental Affairs Committee meeting to advance the nomination of Anne Kirkpatrick to the role of NOPD superintendent.... Jesse Lu Baum
October 2023 FOR THE RECORD At the City Council meeting on August 24, the Council unanimously passed a motion directing the New Orleans Office of Workforce Development to distribute payments due to young... Jesse Lu Baum
September 2023 FOR THE RECORD In July, New Orleans’ City Council Quality of Life Committee introduced several ordinances which would allow police to further harass unhoused people in New Orleans, seize their... Jesse Lu Baum
August 2023 FOR THE RECORD At a City Council meeting on June 22, the Council passed the long-awaited right to collective bargaining ordinance for New Orleans City workers. The measure protects workers’... Jesse Lu Baum
July 2023 FOR THE RECORD The City Council recently voted in favor of creating affordable homeownership standards for New Orleans, adding to the suite of regulations already devoted to creating affordable... Jesse Lu Baum
June 2023 FOR THE RECORD On May 25, the City Council voted to appropriate some of the last of New Orleans’ federally awarded American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) monies—$388 million awarded to the City to... Jesse Lu Baum
June 2023 Love and Disaster with the Tinder Meteorologist Screaming gales, jagged blades of lightning, soaking rains, sudden floods, bitter freezes, and the not-so-occasional tornado all come through the streets of New Orleans. And with... Jesse Lu Baum
May 2023 Hepatitis C in Louisiana This feature is not a substitute for advice or care provided by a licensed medical or health care professional. The year was 2019, and Louisiana was lurking then—as it is... Jesse Lu Baum
