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WEBAug 19, 2024 — President Biden announces $150 million in research grants for cancer “moonshot” initiative. Near Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, the president and first lady prioritize goal to halve the nation’s cancer death rates within roughly the next two decades. by Delaney Dryfoos August 14, 2024.
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WEBThe Lens is the New Orleans area’s first nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest newsroom, dedicated to unique investigative and explanatory journalism. Our mission is to educate, engage and empower readers with information and analysis necessary for them to advocate for a more transparent and just governance that …
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WEBThe mission of The Lens is to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast by providing the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance. With a staff of experienced investigative reporters and pundits, The Lens merges the accuracy, fairness and thoroughness of …
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WEBJun 15, 2024 — Pencils, Laptops, and Guaranteed Income. by Marta Jewson August 27, 2024. Across the nation, there’s been an increase in programs looking at ways to help lift up young people – and move them from poverty into more secure futures. Here in New Orleans, administrators at Rooted School saw fewer absences, a …
Neighborhoods Watched: Safety - The Lens
WEBOctober 21, 2021. Clint Carter was suffering from diabetic nerve pain and waiting for a ride to the hospital when he was arrested in June 2018, he told The Lens later that year during a phone call from the Avoyelles Correctional Center in Cottonport, about three hours northwest of New Orleans. Standing with a few friends in Central City, he ...
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WEBMay 25, 2023 — The decision by District Attorney Jason William to charge the teens as adults was controversial, if not surprising. During his campaign for DA, Williams promised to keep all cases involving kids in juvenile court, and frequently cited research on youth brain development that indicates kids are more susceptible to peer pressure, more likely to engage in risky behavior, and less likely to ...
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WEBOct 21, 2021 — Neighborhoods Watched ... crime camera
Behind The Lens episode 190:’A big one-time spending spree’
WEBDec 23, 2022 — Behind The Lens episode 190:’A big one-time spending spree’. On this week’s episode, the state is struggling to find beds for inmates who’ve been found mentally incompetent to stand trial and are languishing, sometimes for months, in jails instead. Local residents and elected officials of the Lake Maurepas area gathered in Baton Rouge ...
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WEBAug 8, 2024 — by Arthur Hunter August 5, 2024. Louisiana is giving second chances to bad policy. It should be extending those second chances to our neighbors. by Sarah Omojola August 1, 2024.