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3 days ago · New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell appears to have decided against honoring a $20 million, City Council-authorized settlement agreement with the Orleans Parish School Board, councilmembers announced on Saturday (Feb. 1).. The agreement, which was intended to help the city’s schools pull out of an estimated $36 million deficit and settle a long-running lawsuit filed by the School Board against ...

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Jan 3, 2025 · The hospitality company Roami says it is providing free housing for families affected by the event. Families can email [email protected] if they are traveling to New Orleans to help care for a loved one.. The federal Office for Victims of Crime offers resources for victims of terrorism and mass violence.. For those looking to help. The Blood Center is seeking donors.

5 days ago · “The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,” wrote Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, in the memo.

Jan 2, 2025 · In the parking lot of the Blood Center Thursday (Jan. 2) morning, more than 50 people lined up or perched in folding chairs at an emergency blood drive following the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Jan 17, 2025 · The 32-page report alleges that Greene’s death “demonstrated serious failures” that “were not isolated but part of a larger pattern or practice of law enforcement conduct that deprives people in Louisiana of their rights under the Constitution.”. The report cites one case in which a trooper “slammed a bar patron to the ground” merely …