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 […]
On Wednesday, the Louisiana Senate Education Committee approved legislation SB 156 that will restrict transgender youth from participating in public school athletics, by forbidding them from participating on the sports teams that matches their gender identity. State Senator Beth Mizell has defended the bill, which she authored, by saying its purpose is not to attack […]
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. […]
On Wednesday, April 28, the governing board of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (MCCNO) voted in favor of suing the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (NORTA) over millions of dollars in contested recurring tax revenue. The board voted unanimously to file the lawsuit following a 30-minute executive session that was closed to […]
On May 1, 2020, the Archdiocese of New Orleans filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. Since filing, the archdiocese has not been entirely honest about the real reason that they declared bankruptcy. When asked for a statement on why they declared bankruptcy, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese forwarded along a press release and informational booklet, commenting […]
Louisiana House Education Committee Chairman Ray Garofalo filed legislation HB 564 which would ban schools from teaching what he has labeled Divisive Concepts. These concepts include that either the United States of America or the state of Louisiana is fundamentally, institutionally, or systemically racist or sexist. I have not seen evidence that we are fundamentally […]
A bill to stop people with serious mental illnesses from being incarcerated in solitary confinement has been deferred to next weeks agenda in the Louisiana House of Representatives. The bill, HB 68, was authored by Representative Mandie Landry. In the past, Landry successfully championed a bill that prohibited Louisiana prisons from putting pregnant women in […]
Senate Bill 49, which proposes a $15 minimum wage in Louisiana advanced on Wednesday out of Committee. Not only would it double Louisianas minimum wage, it would also stipulate that the minimum wage is increased each year by the percentage increase in the federal governments Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. It cleared the […]
Its no secret that Louisianas criminal justice system is one of the most biased, severe, and harmful justice systems in the world. According to reports from the federal government last year, Louisiana incarcerates more people, per capita, than any other state in the country. We warehouse more people in prison than anywhere else, and I […]
Due to a steep decrease in COVID-19 cases, New Orleans moved into Modified Phase Three COVID-19 restrictions this month. These relaxed requirements reduced the curfew placed on bars so they can now stay open until 1 AM, increased the permitted amount of people allowed to gather indoors and outdoors, to 150 and 250 respectively, and, […]
Go to Page