September 2022 LETTER FROM AN EDITOR On Saturday, August 27, 2005, I was supposed to have my first sleepover with a friend from school. On Friday, August 26, my mom made a judgment call—we were evacuating. I was... Marisa Clogher
September 2022 FOR THE RECORD On July 21, the City Council approved an ordinance that allows for the use of facial recognition software that had been previously banned in 2020. The ordinance would give NOPD... Marisa Clogher
September 2022 REVIEWS ... Anthony Oscar, Frances Madeson, Jesse Lu Baum, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Veronica Cross, Will Hibert, William Archambeault
August 2022 REVIEWS ... Dalton Spangler, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Sabrina Stone, Veronica Cross
July 2022 LETTER FROM SOME EDITORS “I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.” —Mary Ruefle What was forecast has come to pass. Roe v. Wade was overturned by the “Supreme” Court,... Jesse Lu Baum, Marisa Clogher
July 2022 FOR THE RECORD On June 9, the City Council unanimously approved an ordinance to nearly double the police recruiting budget—from $500,000 to $900,000. While assuring the public that NOPD had no... Marisa Clogher
June 2022 FOR THE RECORD On May 5, the City Council unanimously approved the right to counsel for tenants facing eviction in court, after approving $2 million for the initiative last year. This ordinance... Marisa Clogher
April 2022 FOR THE RECORD Every 10 years, Orleans Parish is redistricted following the release of federal census data. As The Lens explains, “the city charter requires the council to create a new... Marisa Clogher
December 2021 FOR THE RECORD From November 8 to November 16, the New Orleans City Council held multiple days of meetings about the proposed 2022 City budget. On November 12, the Office of Community... Marisa Clogher
November 2021 FOR THE RECORD It’s the word on everybody’s lips: infrastructure. Whether you’ve lived in New Orleans one week, one year, or your whole life, you’re no stranger to the myriad of road... Marisa Clogher
October 2021 LETTER FROM AN EDITOR I didn’t think of myself as a person who never leaves. I’m not sure why, considering my own obstinance in remaining here long term, but I didn’t quite piece it together... Marisa Clogher
October 2021 No Place Like Home Norco—a suburb on the outskirts of New Orleans, located in St. Charles Parish—is a town surrounded by the type of swampy terrain stereotypically assumed of its more... Marisa Clogher
