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FEMA’s response to Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago has shown many of Louisiana’s public officials why funding the agency rather than stripping it down is so crucial.
All Photo Credits: Entergy Corporation and its subsidiaries Written by David Lee Simmons When Hurricane Katrina tore through southeast Louisiana in August 2005, it left behind more than $1 billion of ...
Who was Willie “Bunk” Johnson? A fraud, a boaster, an alcoholic or a gifted trumpet player? More than likely, he was all of the above.
Firearm violence is killing Americans at the scale of a public health epidemic. The suffering is concentrated in Black neighborhoods damaged by segregation, disinvestment, hate crimes, and other forms ...
State regulators on Wednesday authorized a controversial plan to power a massive Meta-owned data facility in northeast Louisiana — a project poised to become one of the largest artificial intelligence ...
Still, in such a crowded field, two candidates stand out in terms of their political bona fides and name recognition: State ...
Two Louisiana mothers who were deported to Honduras along with their citizen children in April have now sued the Trump administration, arguing that their removals lacked due process in violation of ...
Senais Lazard "Eddie 3 Way” Edwards opened his store in the 1960s to sell records, newspapers and to offer shoe shines.
It’s an open secret that Maryland’s famous steamed crabs often don’t come from Maryland. Some 1,100 miles separate Baltimore ...
New Orleans, which had the second-highest homicide rate in the country in 2024, wasn’t on the president’s list of cities that ...
Two new Louisiana laws that require some state agencies and higher education systems to collect and share data on undocumented migrants are now in effect – including reporting some applicants for ...
Before the nation had Don Cornelius and “Soul Train,” New Orleans had Walt Boatner and the “Walt Boatner Show.” ...