Author’s note: This is the first article in a series called “Slumlord City: How New Orleans Rentals are Failing Working Families.” This article is about Metrowide Apartments, a group of rental units and complexes owned by Joshua Bruno. When Devin Shelley moved into the apartment complex called Washington Place, they weren’t expecting to have to […]
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. One by one, toward the end of March, residents of Enumclaw Health and Rehabilitation Center outside of Seattle started coming down with symptoms of COVID-19. On March 22, residents in Rooms 503 […]
As of today, more Louisianians have died from COVID-19 than from Hurricane Katrina, Governor Edwards said in his April 23 press conference. While the number of deaths in Louisiana from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) passed 1,500 today, Governor Edwards urged Louisianians to be as diligent about the weather as about the risk of contracting COVID-19. Two […]
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Private equity-backed medical staffing companies that have cut doctors’ pay are continuing to spend millions on political ads, according to Federal Communications Commission disclosures. The ads amount to $2.2 million since Health […]
As the public health demands of coronavirus require us to do more from our homes, the Louisiana State Legislature just agreed to allow for mail-in ballots – for its legislators, that is. Last week, the Louisiana House and Committee on Governmental Affairs and Senate Governmental Affairs Committee denied Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin’s plan to […]
New Orleans’ newest distillery is prioritizing community outreach efforts through production of hand sanitizer, donations, and resources NEW ORLEANS (Tuesday, April 21, 2020) —Happy Raptor Distilling, LLC has joined the ranks of local distilleries to produce hand sanitizer and provide essential services to our community in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Opening its doors […]
“Schools are a very appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice piece in The Lancet arguing the opening of schools may only cost us 2 to 3%, in terms of total mortality”– Mehet Oz aka Dr. Oz It is a melancholy object to see the greatest economy that has ever existed in the history of […]
Half of those polled have experienced antisemitism firsthand; 63 percent of Jews feel “less safe” New York, NY, April 21, 2020 … Nearly two-thirds of American Jews believe that they are less safe today than they were a decade ago, according to a new ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) survey on Jewish encounters with antisemitism in […]
Living in lockdown is something that few (if any) of us have ever experienced before and certainly wasn’t on any of our lists for the year 2020. However, a break in routine can sometimes be a blessing in disguise — a chance to slow down, contemplate our priorities in life, and implement some disciplines that […]
Note: This article was originally published on the Tulane Hullabaloo. In light of financial crisis brought on by the novel coronavirus, the Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Crisis Funding Circle Louisiana has created a mutual aid fund to give relief to their community. The TGNC fund was established on March 17 as the effects of COVID-19 began […]
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