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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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#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🔍 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
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#TheLensNola🔍 John F. Kennedy High School students who endured the 2019 graduation scandal can continue their class-action lawsuit against charter operator New Beginnings Schools Foundation, a state appellate court ruled last month.

✍Marta Jewson

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October 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 If parents notice their child struggling academically or facing more discipline in school, it may be time for a special education evaluation. Roughly 15% of students in Louisiana have special education plans.

✍️ Marta Jewson

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October 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 A new report warns that Big Tech’s rapid buildout of data centers across the South could usher in a new wave of environmental and economic harms for Black and working-class communities...

✍️ Gus Bennett

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September 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 With New Orleans’s fall elections just weeks away, I have been combing through the published platforms of the people running to serve as New Orleans’s next mayor, councilmember, and assessor.

✍️ Aron Chang

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September 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Marching with krewes brings solid money through the door. But it’s not quite enough to cover all expenses. ✍: @martajewson.bsky.social Click the — to read more! buff.ly/4gYv6Tj
March 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Everything intensifies when your family is Black and big, white, tobacco-spitting cops approach your car in the middle of nowhere...

✍️ Chuck Perkins

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July 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Though Louisiana legislators passed a statewide ban against physical punishment in 2023, parents can still give permission for their children to be physically disciplined.

✍️ Marta Jewson

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September 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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The state-run homeless shelter hastily assembled last month came as a surprise to two key people within City Hall: Nate Fields, director of the city’s office of Homelessness Services and Strategy, and Lesli Harris, the City Councilperson most involved in homelessness issues. #NOLA #TheLensNola🔍
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Emails show that state officials considered creating a shelter in a barge moored in Industrial Canal — and that prominent local developers knew about the shelter long before some city officials.
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February 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Within the Orleans Parish Prison jail, thousands of people remained trapped inside as the floodwaters rose higher by the hour.

✍Bernard Smith

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August 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 A permanent fix is still on the way for corrosion found in the massive lakefront pumps – and there’s likely more corrosion on the underground steel supporting certain floodwalls...

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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August 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 The school faces a sizable budget gap. Proponents say that it’s expensive to launch a stand-alone school, especially one that aspires to be a “beacon of culture.”

✍Marta Jewson and Katy Reckdahl

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#leahchaseschool #budgetgap #schoolprincipal #educationnews
October 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 At that point in 2006, hardly anything seemed worthy of celebrating. Except everyone wanted and needed the kind of emotional release that comes with Carnival.

✍: Tyrone Turner & Susan Sterner

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March 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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September 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Entergy wants to use power it creates. That led to the May blackout.

✍ John Norris

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#newsfeed #neworleans #Nonprofit #nolagram #independentnews #Nola #Louisiana #News #NonprofitNews #EntergyNOLA #mayblackout
July 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 In November, before the final UN meeting on plastic pollution, the Biden Administration announced it no longer supports capping new plastic production as part of a global treaty to protect environmental and human health.

✍: @delaneydryfoos.bsky.social‬

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November 27, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Pharmacists insist no policies have changed as doctors try to determine why their patients have to chase down medication prior to health procedures.

✍Greg LaRose/ Louisiana Illuminator

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#foodanddrugadministration #abortionmedication #louisiana
October 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Order continues for the second consecutive summer. Once the heat index hits 88 degrees, the DOC must provide some relief to the men working for pennies an hour in the prison’s fields.

✍️ Bernard Smith

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September 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 ‘This building’s architecture tells one story. But its human history tells another— and we need to confront both,’ said Loyola Law School professor Andrea Armstrong

✍️ Bernard Smith

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June 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Amid a financial crisis due to an accounting error, the Orleans Parish School Board will dismiss a lawsuit against New Orleans for $20 million in cash and $70 million in funding guarantees.

✍: @martajewson.bsky.social

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November 18, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Three new chemical plants could more than quadruple ammonia production in Donaldsonville, increasing toxic air pollution and the risk of chemical disasters for Ascension residents, warns a new report.

✍ ‪@delaneydryfoos.bsky.social‬

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June 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 In December, Fannie C. Williams Charter School sent a student home and barred her from returning to class until the child was cleared by a doctor.

✍ ‪@martajewson.bsky.social‬

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June 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM