Editorial note: The full press release is here. Congressman Troy Carter announced Friday that FEMA has granted New Orleans an extension until June 2, 2028, to complete remaining work under the Joint Infrastructure Recovery Request program, a major Hurricane Katrina recovery initiative tied to street, drainage, and infrastructure repairs across the city. The extension is […]
A neighborhood that rebuilt from catastrophe is now facing a new threat—the Port NOLA grain terminal, freight trains, grain dust, and a project pushed forward without their consent. The trains are coming back to the Lower Ninth Ward, not as a symbol of progress, but as a warning that once again, New Orleans’ most resilient […]
Every time someone points at New Orleans and says, “See? Another murder. Another carjacking,” they ignore the reality: the conditions behind New Orleans crime in cities like ours weren’t random—they were built, layer by layer, over decades. From government-backed redlining to the hollowing out of urban communities through white flight, and the devastating rise of […]
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