City Planning Commission defers data center recommendations again, citing new concerns with water
After a lively public comment period, the planning commissioners moved to delay voting to expand regulation on new data centers.
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Black legislators demand transparency from Mississippi law enforcement on fatal police shooting of 1-year-old in Senatobia
Two months after state officials began investigating the deadly police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot, the toddler’s family and a key eyewitness say nobody has reached out.
ENVIRONMENT
Trump’s offshore wind crackdown reaches the Gulf of Mexico
A German company accepted a big federal payout to not build an offshore wind farm near Louisiana.
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Public Service Commission will vote on revised transparency rule at September meeting; some groups still have concerns.
Electric companies, environmental groups have expressed concerns to the Public Service Commission about privacy and fairness as well as whether it could chill debate on utility regulatory matters.
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Tax mix-up leaves senior, disabled homeowners overcharged and confused
Orleans Parish assessor’s May promise to fix overassessment of homeowners’ “freeze” properties goes unfulfilled amid pending legal opinion.
Education
Most Louisiana parents can’t access critical early child care, lawmakers call for more state funding
Child advocates, early child care providers and elected officials called for more public investment in the state’s early childhood care to increase access for infants and toddlers in need.
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Robert Hayes broke barriers in education before landing in New Orleans
Hayes served as dean of New Orleans University, which later merged with Straight College to become Dillard University.
Trump policies on the menu as New Orleans restaurants team up to aid ACLU of Louisiana
More than 20 local restaurants are prepping their menus to partner as ‘Chefs for Justice’ in bid to protect civil liberties, immigrant rights from Trump administration.
Crescent City Farmers Market is ‘producers only.’ But some vendors raise questions about the origin of products.
In March, a group of Crescent City Farmers Market vendors accused a large new vendor of offering food it did not produce. The vendor, Mississippi-based Two Dog Farms, denies that it is violating the market’s producers-only policy.
Local News Hub awards $150,000 to Deep South Today to support reporting on women in politics
Deep South Today, a nonprofit network of newsrooms in Louisiana and Mississippi that will soon launch a new newsroom in Arkansas, is pleased to announce it has received a $150,000 grant from Local News Hub to increase its coverage of women in politics across the communities it serves.
Saxophone player David Lastie leaves lasting mark on New Orleans music
Lastie grew up in a musical family that included trumpeter Melvin Lastie and drummer Jessie Hill.
Melvin Lastie helped rewrite industry rules for N.O. musicians
Melvin Lastie could play his horn while smoking a cigarette. Somehow, he created a sound that was smooth and sweet.
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