Every July, New Orleans shows up for Essence Fest. The vendors, the stagehands, the drivers, the hotels. This year, the question hanging over the celebration was whether everyone who showed up last year got paid. Public records showed a six-figure balance still open at the Convention Center months p

The state's $10,000 roof grant left homeowners an average of $6,229 short. For elderly, fixed-income residents in Algiers and across the West Bank, that gap was the whole problem. New Orleans City Council approved Fortify NOLA on Wednesday. I was there. Evans Cutchmore on what the program does, why

Louisiana's lead water line problem has never been a funding problem alone. It has been a legal one. SB228 and SB268 address the constitutional barrier that has blocked utilities from replacing privately owned lead service lines using public dollars. For the tens of thousands of New Orleans homeowne