My Toxic Mardi Gras a headline no one here wants to read, but the possibility was brought up at yesterdays city council hearing for R-21-239, the Resolution for Clean Air. Luckily, yesterdays city council ruling brings us one step closer to minimizing that possibility. On June 28, 2021, the Jefferson-Orleans-Irish Channel Neighbors for Clean […]
Though Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has been a vocal opponent of the value of COVID vaccinations, Landry recently acquired new stock in Johnson and Johnson, one of the companies producing the vaccines. In his annual disclosure form filed with Landrys state ethics board, Landry indicated that he owns common stock in Johnson and Johnson […]
On March 30, 2020, Governor Edwards passed an executive order that would allow nurse practitioners to practice independently in Louisiana. The executive order was spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic, during which residents found themselves unable to access appropriate healthcare. We have been doing this for over a year now. When the state needed nurse […]
On Monday, May 10th, youth activists from the New Orleans and Houston Sunrise Movement, a national, youth-led climate justice movement dedicated to fighting the climate crisis and creating millions of good jobs, set off on their Generation On Fire: Project 400, a 400-mile trek from New Orleans to Houston. The trek represents the displacement from […]
On Tuesday, Louisianas House of Representatives passed legislation HB 514 which will impose a 4.45% sales tax on raw, smokable flower bought by medical marijuana patients. The bill is tied to HB 391 which would legalize the sale of smokable medical marijuana in Louisiana. Currently, medical marijuana patients in Louisiana can only purchase non-smokable forms […]
Bambi Polotzola is a life-long teacher, a community organizer, lover of people, activist on several fronts and the mother of a young adult with autism. As Director of the Governors Office of Disabilities, she fights every day to ensure that the thousands of Louisiana citizens who have a disability get the opportunities and services they […]
New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno advanced her legislation to decriminalize fentanyl test strips in New Orleans on Tuesday. “Saving lives has got to come first, explained Council President Helena Moreno. The opioid epidemic rages on, but fentanyl is a uniquely dangerous and often invisible accelerate to the damage wrought. This simple harm reduction […]
In a Zoom call this morning with women leaders around the state, Governor John Bel Edwards told attendees that now was the time to show their support for three specific bills in his legislative package. We obviously have a lot of work to do. I appreciate the level of coordination this year. Hopefully it will […]
Next month will be the 40th anniversary of the first time HIV/AIDs was identified. To benefit individuals who were alive when the disease was first identified, and through the peak of the HIV/ AIDs epidemic, SAGE New Orleans is now offering a free HIV support group to help people who are aging with the disease. […]
The Environmental Integrity Project, a non-profit watchdog focused on environmental regulation, released a report naming 5 oil refineries in Louisiana as above action level for benzene, a Group A carcinogen. The report, titled Environmental Justice and Refinery Pollution: Benzene Monitoring Around Oil Refineries Showed More Communities at Risk in 2020 explored the relationship between cancer-causing […]
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