New Orleans

2023 - 1 - 15

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NOPD: 16-year-old reported missing (WDSU New Orleans)

According to police, Ashton Beauford, 16, was reported missing as a possible runaway on Jan. 12.

Is Climate Change Flooding New Orleans? (The Wall Street Journal)

Water that is removed from porous sediments leads to compaction and ground subsidence. The coastal flood threat around New Orleans is due in large part to ...

No, New Orleans is experiencing subsidence due to the need to drain the areas on which the city is built. The coastal flood threat around New Orleans is due in large part to decades of mismanagement of the coastal environments, damaging or destroying flood-protecting dunes and coastal vegetation that protect against erosion. [Will Climate Change Really Put New York Underwater?](wsj.com/articles/will-climate-change-really-put-new-york-underwater-nasa-noaa-salinity-global-temperature-average-11672829529)” (Jan. As I explained this to our guide, she gave me a disparaging look and assumed I must be one of those “climate deniers” that society must expunge. 5): Not long ago I took a tour of New Orleans, led by a young person with a modest science background. As the tour ended, our guide said that what New Orleans is experiencing is all due to climate change.

What I learned traveling to New Orleans as a solo tourist (The Points Guy)

Traveling alone for the first time can be daunting. However, one travel writer makes the case for why the experience is worth having by reliving her recent ...

Sure, I didn’t exactly get the opportunity to enjoy a bar or jazz club, but I still found fulfillment in visiting the parks, strolling through the city and learning more about all the historical landmarks. Walking through the Garden District was one of the more calming experiences I had on my short trip. I also had the opportunity to see the idyllic New Orleans City Park, which was mostly filled with hordes of geese looking for food. I decided to walk through the Garden District and visit the New Orleans Museum of Art in City Park. I will admit — and this is probably one of my most unpopular opinions — I wasn’t the biggest fan of the beignets at this local institution. I soaked in the palm trees and the pastel-tinted French-Creole buildings I saw on the way. I walked around the city a bit more and strolled up and down Bourbon Street, which in many ways felt like the South's version of I was even more determined to make my second and last day in New Orleans worthwhile. So, once I landed, I was treated to a seemingly empty city rather than the lively, bustling one I had read about in all the travel guides. The restaurant was one of the few lively places I had encountered during my stay. I'm used to traveling with family or friends, and I hadn’t truly taken a real vacation since before the pandemic. It was my first time traveling alone for fun, and I was nervous.

'Peoples' Housing+' Launches in New Orleans - Biz New Orleans (bizneworleans.com)

“The launch of a new Black-led, community-driven organization that will bring a new approach to affordable housing development and delivery has been over a year ...

Each has leveraged city resources to create affordable homeownership opportunities and community spaces that uplift and empower by meeting people where they are.” “Each of the organizations that now comprise PH+ are longtime, trusted development partners. The new organization plans to convert the property into seven affordable apartment units above an early childhood development facility.

NOMA Announces New Trustees for 2023 - Biz New Orleans (bizneworleans.com)

The new or returning members include Walda Besthoff, Meghan Donelon, Elizabeth Grimes, Ralph Mahana, Robert Hinckley, Anne Redd, Susu Stall, Aulston Taylor, ...

Federal gun prosecutions surge in response to New Orleans crime (NOLA.com)

Federal weapons prosecutions shot up last year in the 13-parish Eastern District of Louisiana to their highest numbers in at least 15 years. Prosecutors in U.S. ...

State and federal law restrict possession of machine guns largely to police or military personnel. A spokesperson for NOPD said the department doesn’t keep statistics on aftermarket add-ons to firearms. Police arrested several people and executed a search warrant at the Touro Street house. Agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives soon joined New Orleans officers in a search of the apartment. Harris also stands accused of carjacking a local real estate agent at the Costco gas pumps, fracturing her skull. Severin, 25, is now locked up in the parish jail, booked on counts of aggravated assault of a dating partner, domestic abuse and being a felon in possession of a firearm. In the Eastern District, they were up 85%. "Those individuals that repeatedly are members of the revolving door in the justice system. Attorney Duane Evans’ office lodged about 70 new cases in which the lead charge was a firearms offense, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, or TRAC. Williams welcomes the federal requests, White said. Evans said most of those cases are coming out of Orleans Parish. The thumb-sized widgets quickly turn handguns fully automatic, capable of rapid, often erratic fire with a single squeeze.