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City Council At-Large Race - Verite News New Orleans View the city council at-large candidates in New Orleans upcoming election this fall and read their responses to our questionnaire.

This week, hear from the major at-large candidates for New Orleans City Council. We asked them about affordability, utility regulation, zoning, and much more!

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Next week, we will share the questionnaires from the candidates for the five district seats.

Planned Parenthood to close in Louisiana after more than 40 years. See details. "This is not a decision we wanted to make," said Melaney Linton, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, adding that "political warfare" on the nonprofit by its opponents forced the cl...

This makes me very sad. My favorite OB/GYN in the city worked at Planned Parenthood. She gave me two IUDs over the years; both times, easy & painless.

Planned Parenthood has always been a safe, compassionate place for me & others to receive necessary healthcare.

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Now that Topgolf deal is dead, where does River District stand? River District developers say they’re moving ahead with plans for affordable housing, music museum and more.

Now that Topgolf deal is dead, where does River District stand?

River District developers say they’re moving ahead with plans for affordable housing, music museum and more.

This aspiring Louisiana pilot can’t fly with sickle cell disease. So he’s editing his genes. Daniel Cressy will be the first patient in Louisiana to complete the gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease.

This aspiring Louisiana pilot can’t fly with sickle cell disease. So he’s editing his genes.

Daniel Cressy will be the first patient in Louisiana to complete the gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease.

Sheriff's Race - Verite News New Orleans View the sheriff candidates in New Orleans upcoming election this fall and read their responses to our questionnaire.

The questionnaire responses by our candidates for Sheriff are now posted on the @veritenews.org election guide. I hope they are helpful for #NewOrleans voters in figuring out which candidate will earn their vote.

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Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

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Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson faces five opponents. Here’s what the candidates had to say about how they would address the biggest challenges facing the Sheriff’s Office veritenews.org/guides/2025-...

Fwiw, in my experience, the person in charge of comms likes to respond to some journalists' inquiries with a citywide press release. That approach has both alerted me to others' stories and vice versa.

John Stanton: Support local alternative media before it's too late New Orleans alternative monthly publication Antigravity and radio stations WWNO and WWOZ are facing financial difficulties. Now, more than ever, it’s time we support these alternative outlets through ...

Support local New Orleans alternative media before it's too late! For years Antigravity, WWOZ and WWNO have served us. Now, they need our help to stay afloat and continue to help our community grow, celebrate our culture and make New Orleans what it is

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Some interesting factoids from a presentation given by HousingNOLA at today's meeting of the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee. Puts a good punctuation point on our story about folks leaving imo.

Next week, we will be posting the questionnaires filled out by candidates for council. After that, we hope to publish answers from candidates for Clerk and Assessor... and if he ever gets back to me, Coroner Dwight McKenna.

Sheriff's Race - Verite News New Orleans View the sheriff candidates in New Orleans upcoming election this fall and read their responses to our questionnaire.

The questionnaire responses by our candidates for Sheriff are now posted on the @veritenews.org election guide. I hope they are helpful for #NewOrleans voters in figuring out which candidate will earn their vote.

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Sobering story. Boils down to this IMO.

If I weren't lucky enough to be able to work remote full time...

People are leaving New Orleans. Can a new mayor help bring them back? The city has lost tens of thousands of residents in the past several years. And much of what’s driving them away is well beyond the control of the city’s next mayor.

People are leaving New Orleans. Can a new mayor help bring them back?

The city has lost tens of thousands of residents in the past several years. And much of what’s driving them away is well beyond the control of the city’s next mayor.

People are leaving New Orleans. Can a new mayor help bring them back? - Verite News New Orleans The city has lost tens of thousands of residents in the past several years. And much of what’s driving them away is well beyond the control of the city’s next mayor.

People are leaving New Orleans. Can the new mayor bring them back? My latest for @veritenews.org –

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Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

They fled violence, sexual assault, and death threats.

Now thousands of legal immigrants, many of whom developed deep roots in the US, are at risk of deportation, marking the single largest delegalization campaign in US history.

Louisiana passes police accountability law following video of officer slamming Shantel Arnold to the ground Despite being caught in a 2021 video ripping out Shantel Arnold’s hair, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to report the incident. A new law authored by Arnold’s attorney will man...

The law was introduced after sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to write a report about his slamming of a Black woman to the ground in a 2021 viral video, despite a policy that officers document each time they use force. —in partnership with @propublica.org veritenews.org/2025/07/23/l...

1—In 2021, Jefferson Parish Deputy Julio Alvarado was caught on video dragging Shantel Arnold, a Black woman, by her hair and slamming her head into the ground. Four years later, that incident has resulted in a $300,000 settlement and a new police accountability law. THREAD

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.

Flowers for Robert Moses - Find a Grave Memorial Master Builder. Robert Moses gained fame as an urban planner who was credited with redesigning the entire New York City metropolitan area during the mid-20th century. Born into a German Jewish househo...

Here's the website, for inquiring minds:

www.findagrave.com/memorial/887...

My husband was curious where Robert Moses was buried, so he found his "Find A Grave" page. Turns out, to this day, people are leaving GIFs and messages to the long-deceased baron of infrastructure 😂

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And soon we will publish position-specific questions & answers for candidates for Council, Sheriff, Clerk of Crim Court, Assessor and – if Dwight McKenna finally answers my calls and emails – Coroner lol.

Thanks for sharing! :-) A few of the remaining mayoral candidates have promised us answers soon, so my hope is that we will have even more candidates' answers up on the site very soon.

Canal Street Ferry extends night hours in RTA pilot program The Regional Transit Authority recently began its summer hours pilot program — extending the Canal Street Ferry’s operating hours to 12:15 a.m. every night of the week.

Loved this story from our new reporting fellow Aliana Mediratta – with beautiful photography from our new photographer Christiana Botic! – all about what it would mean to extend the hours of the Algiers-FQ ferry. A super sweet @veritenews.org story:

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2025 New Orleans Mayoral Election - Verite News New Orleans View the mayoral candidates in New Orleans upcoming election this fall and read their responses to our questionnaire.

First up, here are our mayoral candidates. We asked them about housing, infrastructure, the relationship with council, how they'll deal with the GOP, & more.

All four of the major contenders answered our questions. We hope to include more candidates in near future!

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2025 New Orleans Election Guide - Verite News New Orleans Verite News contacted each of the 60 New Orleanians running for office in the fall municipal election to ask how they plan to govern.

Excited to share our 2025 election guide for @veritenews.org. We've been in touch with every candidate for every office in New Orleans. Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing their answers to our questionnaire with you! We also will be sharing voting resources.

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As hurricane season ramps up, how likely is it that the power will go out in New Orleans? Following the disastrous outage from Hurricane Ida in 2021, Entergy New Orleans has invested in grid hardening, but is it doing enough to prevent the next outage?

As hurricane season ramps up, how likely is it that the power will go out in New Orleans?

Following the disastrous outage from Hurricane Ida in 2021, Entergy New Orleans has invested in grid hardening, but is it doing enough to prevent the next outage?

As hurricane season ramps up, how likely is it that the power will go out in New Orleans? - Verite News New Orleans Following the disastrous outage from Hurricane Ida in 2021, Entergy New Orleans has invested in grid hardening, but is it doing enough to prevent the next outage?

How likely is it that the power will go out this year? And what can be done to stop it? I explore these questions — and have fun explaining how parts of the grid work – in my latest story for @veritenews.org –

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Inside the Dollar General Workers’ Fight for Safety and Fair Pay

"And where there is a Dollar General, there often is little else, which, for certain communities, makes shopping and working there feel less like a choice and more like the only option available."

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