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‘Subterfuge’: How KIPP New Orleans’ vote to close Douglass High School skirted Open Meetings Law lamplighter.news/p/subterfuge-h…

@BCasserleigh And New Orleans.

Is ATT being weird for anyone else in BR?

here's a sentence you don't see every day. nytimes.com/2025/07/02/bus…

See the latest @PRCNO Preservation in Print for an excerpt from "Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences" (@lsupress), my analysis of the spatial origins of some 500 Louisiana cities, town and villages. lsupress.org/9780807185100/… @TulaneArch

America lost a gentle giant in journalism when Stanley Nelson, who investigated some of the nation’s most notorious racially motivated slayings in Mississippi and Louisiana, died unexpectedly last week. He was 69. CBC reporter David Ridgen, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and podcast host, worked with the reporter for years. “Stanley Nelson is the best of us,” he said. “A doer. Not a reminiscer. A teller. Not someone to leave anyone behind. A brotherly guy who you’d trust anything to.” In 2012, he became a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his stories on the 1964 killing of Frank Morris in Ferriday, Louisiana, by Klansmen who belonged to the violent wing, the “Silver Dollar Group.” Best-selling author Greg Iles depicted the journalist as the character Henry Sexton in his novel, “Natchez Burning.” Nelson chuckled to me about the portrayal, saying his alter ego lived a much more adventurous life: “He is a musician, has a girlfriend and is tech savvy — that’s something I don’t know a damn thing about.” Iles said the most important writing he’s ever done “would not exist were it not for the inspiration and selfless collaboration of Stanley Nelson. I never knew another man who always did the right thing regardless of fear or favor, not motivated by hope for profit or fame. Stanley eventually gained a wide reputation for excellence, but not because he sought it. Because he earned it. And God knows the world is a better place because he lived and worked in it.” mississippitoday.org/2025/06/09/civ…

#OUTAGEALERT The regional transmission organization that Entergy New Orleans is part of called MISO is shedding load in New Orleans. This is leading to the power outages, and unfortunately this was done with only a 3 minute notice to the utility and no notice to regulators.

Who could’ve expected there’d be a lot of demand for electricity when it gets hot? If they can’t handle this on the first hot weekend of the year …

@BCasserleigh Agree.

sorry for being *partial* but this is very dumb and stupid

Love the @WSJ headline writers on today's front page. Yes, it's about a racehorse, but still, such a nice thought.

A special moment for humanity as the world gets to watch billionaires play astronauts with the tax money they avoided paying

For the first time since the 1890s, the view has opened up at the foot of Esplanade Avenue, as steel sheds are removed to connect Crescent Park with the Moonwalk. For the first time since 1718, there will no longer be port cargo activity on the French Quarter riverfront.

Musk abruptly quit the livestream of a video game after being cyber bullied in the chat. Evidently looking good on this game was once so important to him that he paid people to make it look like he was better than he is. thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-rage…

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.

It appears that US Space Force isn't taking a DOGE like cut as the other agencies are. On Friday it announced three big contracts. The biggest: $6 billion to Elon Musk's SpaceX spaceforce.mil/News/Article-D…

Great news, everybody!!!!!

@stephgracela Is there any data to suggest anyone even wants this?

Is there any data to suggest NO can support this, on top of NFL and NBA franchises?

BREAKING: Louisiana has carried out its first execution in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman's attorneys say he died by the state's newly approved method of nitrogen hypoxia.

Here we go

Trump says reporting by independent news outlets is biased and should be deemed to be against the law. "It has to be illegal, it’s influencing judges and it’s really changing law, and it just cannot be legal. I don’t believe it’s legal." @AlexGangitano thehill.com/homenews/admin…

youtu.be/4pjVN38Ljto?fe… The disgraced former director of New Orleans’ 911 dispatch center, who is facing criminal charges, says he wants to be mayor so he can have a job where he can take “a day or a week or an afternoon to just decompress.”