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11/26/2025

🔍 “When I saw the brother Jamar (McNeely) giving out turkeys and hams, I said, ‘Let me bring the vegetables,’” said DeLance Vanderhorst of Healthier NOLA.

✍️ Gus Bennett

“When I saw the brother Jamar (McNeely) giving out turkeys and hams, I said, ‘Let me bring the vegetables,’” said DeLance Vanderhorst of Healthier NOLA. [...]Read More... from Holiday giveaway brings hope to Tremé amid immigration fears

11/25/2025

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11/21/2025

🔍 Over the past 75 years, more than a dozen Black proprietors have run the First and Last Stop Bar, a longtime gathering spot for 7th Ward neighbors and Black-masking Indians. But earlier this month, a new owner posted an eviction notice on the door.

✍ Katy Reckdahl and Gus Bennett

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11/21/2025

🔍 The NOLA Public Schools district earned its first B letter grade since the schools returned to the district’s control in 2018, after being seized from the Orleans Parish School Board in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and run for years by the state.

✍ Marta Jewson

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11/21/2025

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11/18/2025

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11/14/2025

🔍 Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch.

✍ Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana Illuminator

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11/13/2025

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11/11/2025

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11/07/2025

🔍 Forty-one people have been executed so far this year, the highest number since 2012.

✍ Amanda Watford, Stateline

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11/07/2025

🔍 The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch at Louisiana Tech University.

✍Hannah Richter, Sierra Magazine Sierra Magazine

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11/02/2025

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