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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 5h

#OPINION While Gov. Jeff Landry was quick to denounce the speed of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-led clean-up, he's silent in holding Smitty's Supply itself accountable for the explosion...

✍Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 21h

#OPINION The writers, an educator and a parent who works as an advocate within schools, contend that the state takeover removed Black teachers who provided continuity and did not improve academic outcomes for Black students...

✍ Ashana Bigard and Elizabeth K. Jeffers

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 1d

#TheLensNola🔍 If parents notice their child struggling academically or facing more discipline in school, it may be time for a special education evaluation. Roughly 15% of students in Louisiana have special education plans.

✍️ Marta Jewson

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 2d

#OPINION In recent months, public officials rushed to the microphone to take credit when the crime rate dropped. Will they now rush back to the microphone and take blame when the crime rate rises?

✍️ Arthur Hunter Jr.

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 5d

#TheLensNola🔍 Tulane University terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she’d helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected...

✍Delaney Nolan

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#tulaneuniversity #academicdirector #gaza

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 5d

#TheLensNola🔍 "Intentionally or not, Trump is adding weight to this burden that women are already carrying as family health managers."

✍Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th

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#childhoodvaccines #vaccinedelay #presidenttrump

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 6d

#TheLensNola🔍 Expensive calls force families to choose between paying bills and staying connected to loved ones.

✍Bernard Smith

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#federalcommunicationscommission #neworleansjusticecenter #jailphonecalls

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 7d

#OPINION "NOLA Cannabis Co. is preparing to open the first medical marijuana dispensary at 1407 S. Carrollton Ave., in the Historic Urban Neighborhood of Carrollton, where we both live."

✍Betty DiMarco and Lane Trippe

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#nolacannabisco #carroltonavenue #TheLensNola🔍

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 8d

#TheLensNola🔍 Plant held millions of gallons of motor oils, fluids and other petrochemicals.

✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator

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#smittyssupply #hazardouspollution #tangipohoaparish

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 11d

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 11d

#TheLensNola🔍 Three years after a federally funded move, Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles report broken homes — and promises.

✍Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon | Floodlight

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#climaterelocation #isledejeancharles #environmentalnews

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 11d

#TheLensNola🔍 A new report warns that Big Tech’s rapid buildout of data centers across the South could usher in a new wave of environmental and economic harms for Black and working-class communities...

✍️ Gus Bennett

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 13d

#TheLensNola🔍 With New Orleans’s fall elections just weeks away, I have been combing through the published platforms of the people running to serve as New Orleans’s next mayor, councilmember, and assessor.

✍️ Aron Chang

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 18d

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 19d

#TheLensNola🔍 A new Tulane University study on brown anoles could offer a better understanding of lead poisoning...

✍Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator

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#brownanolelizards #tulaneuniversity #leadpoisoning

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 19d

#TheLensNola🔍 Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

✍️ Delaney Nolan, The Lens and Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 20d

#TheLensNola🔍 Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

✍️ Delaney Nolan

Full Story 🔗: thelensnola.org?p=605378

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 25d

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 25d

#TheLensNola🔍 A buzzed-about spelling bee returns to the United States’ biggest maximum security prison.

✍️ Lawson Strickland

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 28d

#TheLensNola🔍 Order continues for the second consecutive summer. Once the heat index hits 88 degrees, the DOC must provide some relief to the men working for pennies an hour in the prison’s fields.

✍️ Bernard Smith

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 29d

#TheLensNola🔍 Though Louisiana legislators passed a statewide ban against physical punishment in 2023, parents can still give permission for their children to be physically disciplined.

✍️ Marta Jewson

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · Sep 6

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · Sep 3

#TheLensNola🔍 In the wake of the recent explosion in Roseland, a flow of unidentified contaminants –– black, oily, and smelling like asphalt –– has made its way down the Tangipahoa River and is visible at least as far downriver as Ponchatoula.

✍Delaney Nolan

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · Aug 30

Katrina changed us forever. The stories we tell now define the future we’re building. The Lens brings you the stories that keep our community’s memory—and fight—alive. Don’t miss a word. Subscribe today 📬

#thelensnola🔍 #katrina20yearslater #newsletter #NonprofitNews #neworleans

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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · Aug 30

#TheLensNola🔍 Inspired by the floodwaters after Katrina and the birth of his son, photographer Gus Bennett created a new photography series, Organic Watermarks

✍️ Gus Bennett

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#OrganicWatermarks #photography #katrina20yearslater

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