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Get the Lead Out: How New Orleans can reduce toxic heavy metal exposure
Case studies of two cities and a state that faced lead contamination problems may give New Orleans a roadmap to cleaning its pollution.
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7mSign ups for free transit program for New Orleans youth ends this week due to funding cut
New Orleans Regional Transit Authority riders born 2001-2010 have until Aug. 14 to get free passes as the pilot program ends open enrollment. After a $1 million funding cut, the Opportunity Pass program is expected to end if new funding is not secured.
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11mFrank Perez, founder of LGBT+ Archives Project, was a pillar of the queer community in New Orleans
Frank Perez, who helped catalog the history of queer communities throughout Louisiana, died after a bout with cancer at 57.
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3mWilliam G. Brown, Louisiana's first black state education superintendent, helped reform a failing system
Brown exposed problems with how Louisiana's public school system operated, then called for reform
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8mTrump’s ‘energy emergency’ could fast-track massive expansion of Plaquemines LNG export terminal
$18 billion project could damage 470 acres of wetlands in a parish already losing land at a rapid pace
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7mLouisiana among states losing the most film industry jobs in the country
Louisiana ranked fourth in total job loss in the film and television industry from 2024 to 2025.