The Lens staffers reflect on our work, including favorite stories, in 2024 and look ahead to 2025. [...]

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Marta Jewson on the annual December announcement of which charter schools will close. Delaney Dryfoos on work to revitalize Maurepas Swamp. [...]

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In a special episode, Adrinda Kelly, the founding Executive Director of Black Education for New Orleans (BE NOLA), whose mission is to support Black educators and Black-led schools, reflects on two decades of changes in New Orleans education. [...]

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Delaney Dryfoos and Eric Schmid on new insurance models Mississippi River towns are leaning on. Nick Chrastil on juveniles leaving the Jackson Parish Jail. [...]

Read More... from Behind The Lens episode 258: ‘Floodplains’

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Delaney Dryfoos and La'Shance Perry on "Cajun Coral," a type of 3D printed coral used to help rebuild living reefs. Marta Jewson on the NOLA Public Schools' $36 million budget shortfall and superintendent's midyear resignation. [...]

Read More... from Behind The Lens episode 257: ‘Creating new reefs’

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Delaney Dryfoos a federal rule to eliminate lead pipes in the next decade. Nick Chrastil on changes to federal welfare money. Jay Marcano on the call for Tulane University to divest from fossil fuels. [...]

Read More... from Behind The Lens episode 256: ‘A Tricky Endeavor’

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Delaney Dryfoos on a wharf redevelopment in the Lower 9th Ward. Marta Jewson on Louisiana AG's decision to join a lawsuit targeting transgender men and women, and broader civil rights. [...]

Read More... from Behind The Lens episode 255: ‘Civil rights at risk’

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Marta Jewson and La'Shance Perry on their interview with a women about what it's like to be pregnant in Louisiana after the fall of Roe. Delaney Dryfoos on St. James residents' fight against industry. [...]

Read More... from Behind The Lens episode 254: ‘It’s scary, dangerous’

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Nick Chrastil and Katy Reckdahl on the Jackson Parish Jail housing kids without the required license to do so. [...]

Read More... from Behind the Lens episode 253: ‘Mace with no warning’

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Marta Jewson and Katy Reckdahl on a new Louisiana law that requires doctors to keep common maternal health care medications under lock and key. Delaney Dryfoos on a Mississippi River mayors agreement. [...]

Read More... from Behind the Lens episode 252: ‘Bleeding out’

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