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The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, the series continues with construction of the Madisonville lighthouse.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, one of the Senate Republicans who's been openly hesitant about the health care bill released this week by the Senate, told Face the Nation 's John Dickerson this morning he was still undecided about whether he could support it. "There are things in this bill which adversely affect my state that are peculiar to my state, a couple of things I'm concerned about," Cassidy said.
I had the great misfortune to begin my career as a physician practicing in Louisiana without the initial expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Although many hundreds of thousands of people would have benefited significantly from the expansion, the gubernatorial politics of the time were firmly set against it.
Pierre McGraw of the Monumental Task Committee, left, and Tulane university professor of Asian Studies Richard Marksbury announce that did not appeal the decision to remove the P.G.T. Beauregard monument, center, to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals because they don't have standing with City Park in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, May 16, 2017.
Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orleans, stands at the lectern asking the House to vote to direct the committee to report HB1 as House Speaker Rep. Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, right, watches during the closing minutes of the last day of the regular legislative session Thursday June 8, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La.. In the 2017 Legislature, passing the budget bills for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was supposed to be the easy part.
Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orleans, stands at the lectern asking the House to vote to direct the committee to report HB1 as House Speaker Rep. Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, right, watches during the closing minutes of the last day of the regular legislative session Thursday June 8, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La.. During floor debate in the final week of the regular legislative session, Democratic Rep. Barbara Norton, of Shreveport, apparently had enough of Republican Rep. Valarie Hodges from Denham Springs.
Former U.S. Sen. David Vitter has joined the Butler Snow law firm in New Orleans as counsel in the firm's business department. Butler Snow says Vitter will focus on business and economic development in the energy sector and other areas.
The strangest part about the continued personality cult of Robert E. Lee is how few of the qualities his admirers profess to see in him he actually possessed. Memorial Day has the tendency to conjure up old arguments about the Civil War.
The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, the series continues with a look at the deal that put New Orleans boat builder Andrew Higgins on the radar of the U.S. Navy.
Mitch Landrieu enters his final year as mayor of New Orleans drawing less attention to what's been built than to what's been taken down: Century-old landmarks, three honoring Confederate leaders and one heralding white supremacy, have disappeared from the city landscape at his behest. Emotional debates, state and federal court battles and tense confrontations at monument sites marked the process.
But New Orleans was also America's largest slave market: a port where hundreds of thousands of souls were brought, sold and shipped up the Mississippi River to lives of misery and torture. Our history is forever intertwined with that of our great nation - including its most terrible sins.
Weighing in on a race for a state senate seat, U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond on Monday endorsed state Rep. Ed Price over fellow Democrat Warren Harang III. "This is a critical time for the state of Louisiana and we need someone with experience and a steady hand," Richmond, D-New Orleans, said in a prepared statement released by the Price campaign.
Workers in New Orleans dismantle the Liberty Place monument, which commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government. On the same day that some southern states were honoring their rebel heritage, masked workers in New Orleans dismantled a monument to that past - chunk by chunk, under darkness and the protection of police snipers.
Three weeks later , the Trump administration has suspended its weekly reports listing cities and local law enforcement that "limit cooperation" with federal immigration authorities. The reports listed jurisdictions that declined Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers requesting local law enforcement to maintain custody of people living in the country illegally - New Orleans landed on that list for the New Orleans Police Department's policy to "not honor a detainer without a judicial order or criminal warrant," according to the report.
A Nicaraguan national with legal immigration status can withdraw a guilty plea that he didn't realize would trigger his automatic deportation, New Orleans Judge Franz Zibilich ruled Thursday . . Criminal District Court Judge Franz Zibilich said that "justice and fair play" compelled him to allow Santos Garcia to withdraw his guilty plea, entered Nov. 4 to a charge of second-degree battery against a 27-year-old female bartender.
Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway can be seen kneeling on a couch in the Oval Office near a group of presidents of historically black colleges and universities. apologizing for a joke he made at a recent dinner that many have criticized as offensive and sexist.
More than 200 proponents of Planned Parenthood gathered at Duncan Plaza near New Orleans City Hall on Friday afternoon to support funding for the organization, which operates a $4.5 million, 8,000-square-foot clinic on South Claiborne Avenue. A few protesters against abortion rights were also present to denounce Planned Parenthood, which lists abortion referrals in the menu of services on the website of the New Orleans clinic.
The National Weather Service says at least three conf... . Eshon Trosclair holds her son Camron Chapital after a tornado tore through home while they were inside the New Orleans East neighborhood in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.
Press Secretary Sean Spicer says the White House is monitoring the severe weather going through Louisiana. He says President Donald Trump is aware of the situation and is going to be reaching out to local and state officials throughout the day.
Press Secretary Sean Spicer says the White House is monitoring the severe weather going through Louisiana. He says President Donald Trump is aware of the situation and is going to be reaching out to local and state officials throughout the day.