The Lens
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New Orleans' nonprofit news team. For almost 15 years, we've investigated hard news in support of informed community opinion.
New Orleans, LA
Joined November 2009
#TheLensNola🔍 The warden himself ordered changes to the menus after some favorite holiday dishes – most notably, the cornbread dressing – left hundreds of men sick... ✍Bernard Smith Read full story👀: https://t.co/NnNWaWvDQZ
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#TheLensNola🔍 “When I saw the brother Jamar (McNeely) giving out turkeys and hams, I said, ‘Let me bring the vegetables,’” said DeLance Vanderhorst of Healthier NOLA. ✍️Gus Bennett @gusbennettphoto
#InspireNOLA #healthiernola #Juvenile Full Story:
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“When I saw the brother Jamar (McNeely) giving out turkeys and hams, I said, ‘Let me bring the vegetables,’” said DeLance Vanderhorst of Healthier NOLA. [...]Read More... from Holiday giveaway brings...
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Our biggest sale of the year is live. Get yours today. Don't wait. Sale ends Monday 12/1.
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#TheLensNola🔍 Over the past 75 years, more than a dozen Black proprietors have run the First and Last Stop Bar, a longtime gathering spot for 7th Ward neighbors and Black-masking Indians. ✍ Katy Reckdahl and Gus Bennett Full Story🔗: https://t.co/FNMkZ9B965
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#TheLensNola🔍 The NOLA Public Schools district earned its first B letter grade since the schools returned to the district’s control in 2018, after being seized from the Orleans Parish School Board... ✍ Marta Jewson Full Story🔗: https://t.co/o05bCCDl8C
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PMM's Biggest Black Friday sale ever! 25% off PMM parts and Free Shipping. 11/26-12/1. We can not alter pricing for orders placed prior to or after the sale. Don't be that guy...
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#TheLensNola🔍 Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch. ✍ Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator @IlluminatorLA Read full story: https://t.co/TGUjrA0mSR
#oilwaste #smittyssupply #jeffersonparish
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#TheLensNola🔍 Forty-one people have been executed so far this year, the highest number since 2012. ✍ Amanda Watford, Stateline @stateline_news Read More: https://t.co/BKUaaBgTEk
#deathpenalty #nitrogengasexecution #louisiana
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#TheLensNola🔍 The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch at Louisiana Tech University. ✍Hannah Richter, Sierra Magazine Full Story 🔗: https://t.co/4wGwLmg1Lw
#louisianatechuniversity #ecologist #federalgrant
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#TheLensNola🔍 Gov. Jeff Landry said his health department will find the money to cover $147 million in benefits next month for the elderly, disabled and children. ✍ Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana Illuminator Full Story 🔗: https://t.co/yqoXUUMgcz
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#OPINION Louisiana spends too much of its budget on criminal justice while ranking low in healthcare, education, infrastructure, and economic wellbeing. We could redirect those resources. ✍Dominque Johnson Full Story 🔗: https://t.co/Sg9HXROPwa
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#TheLensNola🔍 Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say. ✍Terry L. Jones, Floodlight Full Story🗞: https://t.co/NWqPNEb0TS
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#TheLensNola🔍 New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition. ✍Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews Full Story 🔗: https://t.co/wJFR6q9PWW
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The latest @TheLensNOLA podcast episode just dropped. Boxing Up Choice: Louisiana AG sues the FDA to halt the shipment of abortion meds. And the Leah Chase School Principal Resigns. https://t.co/ifOdsRJjSt
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Greg LaRose on Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's lawsuit against the FDA challenging the distribution of abortion drugs by mail. Marta Jewson on the resignation of Leah Chase School's princi...
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#TheLensNola🔍 Gov. Jeff Landry scraps sediment diversion planned for Breton Sound marsh. ✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator @IlluminatorLA Full Story 🔗: https://t.co/3DrIJ8YMoL
#coastalrestorationproject #bretonsoundmarsh #environmentalnews
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#TheLensNola🔍 Calvin Duncan, an uncommon man with an all-too-common story, is vying to become clerk of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court – and his campaign seems to have gathered enough momentum to draw fire... ✍ Katy Reckdahl Full Story 🔗: https://t.co/9tzkWBf06M
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