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New Orleans Mayor Backs Out of $20M Payment to Schools
New Orleans Mayor Backs Out of $20M Payment to Schools New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell appears to have decided against honoring a $20 million, City Council-authorized settlement ...
Is the City of New Orleans Facing a Fiscal Cliff? City Officials Disagree.
The settlement with the school board was brokered last fall by the New Orleans City Council and Cantrell’s own top deputy, Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montaño. It would have ended yearslong ...
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Mayor Cantrell reneges on $20M promise to New Orleans schools
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell ... City Attorney Donesha Turner stated in an email obtained by WWL Louisiana that Mayor Cantrell had yet to decide whether to settle the ...
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Mental health wing at New Orleans jail is halfway built, but will require additional staff, sheriff says
After years of legal battles, construction of a controversial 89-bed mental health wing at the Orleans Parish jail, with the ...
As New Orleans' Mardi Gras goes into full swing, security boosted to historic levels
More cops than confetti are expected to be prevalent on parade routes when Mardi Gras goes into full swing in New Orleans ...
New Orleans City Council bans non-essential travel
The council went a step further Thursday, responding to the city's claims of being broke by voting unanimously to suspend all non-essential travel by employees and officials. The council also voted to ...
Bourbon Street terror attack memorial moved
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the removal of the memorial was done in coordination with victims of the New Year's ...
Super Bowl honors victims, first responders of New Orleans terror attack
Just a little over a month since 14 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a truck-ramming terror attack on New Orleans ' Bourbon Street, the victims and first responders of the rampage ...