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The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.

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December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Join The Lens for a virtual public records workshop! The workshop will provide a broad overview of Louisiana sunshine laws, with a specific focus on requesting and accessing education data and records. We look forward to seeing you!

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December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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A banned Thanksgiving staple becomes a window into life behind bars. A story told by Bernard Smith.

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December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 The warden himself ordered changes to the menus after some favorite holiday dishes - most notably, the cornbread dressing - left hundreds of men sick...

✍️Bernard Smith

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November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 “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

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November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 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.

✍ Katy Reckdahl and Gus Bennett

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November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 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...

✍ Marta Jewson

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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch.

✍ Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator

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November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Forty-one people have been executed so far this year, the highest number since 2012.

✍ Amanda Watford, Stateline

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November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch at Louisiana Tech University.

✍Hannah Richter, Sierra Magazine

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November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Gov. Jeff Landry said his health department will find the money to cover $147 million in benefits next month for the elderly, disabled and children.

✍ Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana Illuminator

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October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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#OPINION Louisiana spends too much of its budget on criminal justice while ranking low in healthcare, education, infrastructure, and economic wellbeing. We could redirect those resources.

✍Dominque Johnson

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October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say.

✍Terry L. Jones, Floodlight

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#airpollution #chemicalplants #environemtalnews
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

✍Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews

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October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Gov. Jeff Landry scraps sediment diversion planned for Breton Sound marsh.

✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator

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#coastalrestorationproject #bretonsoundmarsh #environmentalnews
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Calvin Duncan, an uncommon man with an all-too-common story, is vying to become clerk of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court – and his campaign seems to have gathered enough momentum to draw fire from high-powered Louisiana officials.

✍ Katy Reckdahl

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October 11, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Marshall is one of the main forces behind the Oct. 11 charter amendment that would amend the New Orleans Bill of Rights to add “conviction history” alongside race, religion, disability, and gender.

✍ Katie Sikora for ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

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October 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM