#TheLensNola🔍 About 70,000 Louisiana Medicaid patients could lose in-network access to Ochsner Health providers after Dec. 1…

✍️ Julie O’Donoghue, The Louisiana Illuminator

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#TheLensNola🔍 Crescent City Schools' Constellations program fills crucial service gaps in New Orleans’ decentralized school system by offering specialized education for students with cognitive disabilities.

✍️ Vivi Smilgius

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#TheLensNola🔍 A growing body of work illustrating the effect of gun violence on overall physical health. That matters in Orleans Parish…

✍️ Fairriona Magee, The Trace

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#TheLensNola🔍 The alumni picnic came at a time of high tension across the city for smaller legacy high schools like Cohen that might soon be vulnerable to closure…

✍️ Vivi Smilgius

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#TheLensNola🔍 In tense meeting, SpaceX managers told locals the massive spaceport won’t affect them at all, until locals pressed them for specifics.

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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#spacex #rocketlaunch #localaccess

#TheLensNola🔍 As a national parasite outbreak leaves New Orleans residents looking for regionally grown produce, corner stores and growers step in to fill healthy food gaps.

✍️ Fallon Brannon

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#neworleans #clyclospora #foodsystems

#TheLensNola🔍 As a national parasite outbreak leaves New Orleans residents looking for regionally grown produce, corner stores and growers step in to fill healthy food gaps.

✍️ Fallon Brannon

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#neworleans #clyclospora #foodsystems

#TheLensNola🔍 The feds have allocated $4 billion in 2025 and $31 in June 2026 toward 287(g) agreements between ICE and local law enforcement agencies.

✍️ Ariana Figueroa, Stateline

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#federalfunds #ICE #locallawenforcement

#OPINION 'A Louisiana state court holding court on a mass grave violates everything I learned in law school,' writes Moore, a retired attorney.

✍️ Charles R. Moore

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#colfaxmassacre #grantparishcourthouse #louisianadistrict #TheLensNola

#TheLensNola🔍 At this year's annual alumni picnic, Cohen graduates remembered the school's lively atmosphere, its music, sports and teachers who forged authentic relationships with students.

✍️ Vivi Smilgius

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#TheLensNola🔍 A DeSmog review found that, across major fossil fuel companies, AI is increasingly being integrated into fossil fuel operations, from seismic exploration and drilling to equipment monitoring…

✍️ Sarah Hofmann, DeSmog

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#TheLensNola🔍 Constructed from corrugated steel shipping containers and fitted with solar panels, the sustainable 2,000-square-foot schoolhouse holds digital art classrooms, a gallery, and combination library…

✍️ Vivi Smilgius

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#TheLensNola🔍 The fire marshal’s decision to allow Sunrise Foods to install out-of-compliance sprinkler system is “abuse of power,” suit alleges.

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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#firemarshal #sprinklersystem #holycrossneighborhood

#TheLensNola🔍 Elliott Callier, who died last month at age 83, was known for his Super Fly swagger, fanciful stories, and his fat mellow sound on the tenor sax, which created a distinct New Orleans sound.

✍️ Katy Reckdahl

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#TheLensNola🔍 Georges is speaking of Meta, and how their perception of him impacts his efforts to get AI licensing contracts with the tech giant

✍️ By Drew Hawkins from Gulf States Newsroom, Delaney Nolan and Vivi Smilgius from The Lens

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#TheLensNola🔍 Georges dismissed concerns from some of his reporters that his embrace of Meta blurs the line between the news and business.

✍️ Drew Hawkins from Gulf States Newsroom, Delaney Nolan and Vivi Smilgius from The Lens

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#TheLensNola🔍 The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our history.

✍️ Ari Berman and Pema Levy

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#blackinjustice #louisiana #history

#TheLensNola🔍 Former EPA officials warn that rapid AI data center expansion, combined with weakened federal pollution safeguards, could increase health risks associated with air pollution…

✍️ Sophie Hurwitz, Mother Jones

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#TheLensNola🔍 Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements, which they argue will threaten people’s coverage…

✍️ Nada Hassanein, Stateline

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#TheLensNola🔍 SpaceX’s planned launch facility in Vermilion Parish could transform South Louisiana while raising questions about impacts on coastal wetlands, migratory birds, wildlife and environment…

✍️ Stephen Marcentel, The Current

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