Never a good enough reason to adjust stoplight timing in this town. Weekends and late night? Major construction closing streets entirely? Just horribly planned timing in the first place? No. It’s still right. It’s perfect.
As you all know, Bobbi is a fantastic immigration reporter who agrees with me that vinegar should be more widely available as an accompaniment for fries. This should be a fascinating AMA, and I strongly encourage you to tune in.
City of New Orleans might trash fully-funded residential recycling initiative
New Orleans has more than $5 million available to pay for tens of thousands of new recycling carts. But the City Council isn’t moving forward with a hearing to approve the contract.
I will say, however, that he is only one of two from yesterday who appears to have been released on a judge's orders "prior to court."
Though it looks like there was only one magistrate commissioner on duty. On the previous Tuesday, 354 hearings were held.
I checked the docket. There were 72 hearings in court yesterday. Most of them appear to be bond hearings on arrests that occurred late Monday or early Tuesday.
Look who made the paper. www.nola.com/entertainmen...
Just got home. Nice post-Mardi Gras lull.
The one concrete thing I could see is trying to force the state’s hand by creating a *policy* against signing a 287g (rather than just not signing one) to litigate the constitutionality of the state anti-sanctuary law. But that’s pretty far-fetched.
Wouldn’t the mayor or a proxy for the mayor have to sign any 287(g) agreement on the city’s behalf anyway? So what does the executive order do? Now if the council were to pass a law or something, that I would understand.
I checked today. It is officially down. Many months of work. RIP
They kind of got people to move their ladders back this year.
Thread by reporter Rich Webster on his latest story for Verite News and the @propublica.org Local Reporting Network. veritenews.org/2026/01/27/l...
Vital local reporting: Louisiana Paroles Its Lowest Number of Prisoners in 20 Years Under Gov. Jeff Landry, by @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org
The latest from @hcrichardson.bsky.social and the @propublica.org Local Reporting Network.
An attorney representing five trans teens and their families in a lawsuit against Louisiana attempting to overturn the state's 2023 ban on youth trans health care spoke with me for @veritenews.org about the meaning of the case in the wake of the Skrmetti decision.
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I interviewed Helena Moreno days ahead of her inauguration for @veritenews.org — veritenews.org/2026/01/07/h...
‘I want to be judged by the fact that people stop leaving New Orleans’: Moreno prepares to take over Mayor’s Office
Verite News sat down with incoming mayor Helena Moreno to discuss the city budget crisis, layoffs and how to grow the city’s economy.
I had been taking the National Museum of African American History and Culture for granted since it opened in 2016, but the Trump administration's threats to it changed that.
And I wrote a personal, reported essay about it for @veritenews.org.
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As a native of the Washington, D.C. metro area, Verite's Drew Costley put off visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture for close to a decade, until the Trump administration started threatening it.
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Does anyone ever answer the NOPD non-emergency line? I have never gotten through. SPCA won't let you make an animal control report directly. They send you to the non-emergency line. But no one ever picks up.
Verite News is seeking a managing editor. veritenews.org/careers/mana...
Chase family tells parents to ‘stay put’ as OPSB questions future of the Leah Chase school
Members of Leah Chase’s family say they will reconsider giving NOLA Public Schools permission to use the iconic chef’s name if the district-run school is transferred to a charter group.
Protesters opposed to ICE temporarily shut down City Council meeting
A tense standoff between members of the New Orleans City Council and a group of protesters calling for more protection for immigrants ended with the protesters being forcibly removed from City Hall during a Dec. 4 meeting, with…
Murrill: State won’t use law against obstructing immigration raids to target speech
The Louisiana Attorney General’s office and the Louisiana State Police both say that a new state law that criminalizes any act intended to “hinder, delay, prevent, or otherwise interfere with or thwart federal…
Hospitality industry in New Orleans braces for immigration sweep
Restaurants that cater to the throngs of tourists who visit New Orleans annually are preparing for heightened immigration enforcement as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB)…
A death row inmate was released on bail after his conviction was overturned. Louisiana still wants to execute him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for…
Starting a thread here of all of the great reporting @veritenews.org is doing on the federal immigration operation. This morning, we had a story about what local restaurants are doing to prepare to protect their workers.
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Gov. Jeff Landry and legislators have made it almost impossible to get parole from prison — unless you are an immigrant who can be deported.
So many interesting bits of information in this story from @veritenews.org and @propublica.org
. #lalege #lagov
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Jimmie Duncan, who was on death row in Louisiana for 27 years for the murder of his former girlfriend's toddler, is free on bail following a @propublica.org + @veritenews.org investigation that examined the reliability of the key forensic evidence used to convict him.
