Today's Times-Picayune features an 8-page special section about a tribal community's long struggle with climate change and the painful and often contentious process of relocating to higher ground.

On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina (8/29), I’m reminded of not only the destruction of my home and community, but also that the experience radicalized me. I was 17 at the time. These events below, personally and systemic, shook my worldview.

Do you know how many water pollution crimes there are in your city? The local news doesn't report on it every time a wealthy company dumps chemicals, just when someone shoplifts deodorant. The biased curation of anecdote affects which law violations we perceive as urgent.

More dangerous signs of weakness in Louisiana's property insurance marketplace: State's insurer of last resort is growing rapidly, wants 63% hike of its already high prices. From Mike Finch: nola.com/news/business/…

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is at Joint Budget, pitching an idea to set up a $20M grant program to help draw insurance companies to write new policies in Louisiana. After the latest major hurricanes, several insurers left or stopped writing new policies. #lalege #lagov

Louisiana encouraged small, untested insurance cos to take risky policies away from the state's insurer of last resort. The most enthusiastic participants have gone belly up - yet Louisiana is gearing up to do it again. Important story from Mike Finch: nola.com/news/business/…

It’s Saturday and a good time to remind people that in Lafayette Louisiana the Mayor President Josh Guillory has imposed a 1 dollar charge for DIGITAL copies of PUBLIC records, but only for MEDIA, amid intensifying scrutiny of his government. And now, ⤵️

Our new report finds that 2016 reforms to Louisiana’s Industrial Tax Exemption Program (ITEP) have brought more than $16 billion of industrial manufacturing property back onto the tax rolls. #LAleg Read it here: hubs.li/Q01pgqx50

EPA says state agencies' regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents nola.com/news/environme… via @nolanews

The FEC found Russian oligarchs funneled cash to some of the biggest names in Louisiana GOP circles: Sens. Kennedy and Cassidy, a fund run by Steve Scalise, a PAC backing AG Jeff Landry, and Reps. Mike Johnson and Garrett Graves, Mother Jones reports: motherjones.com/politics/2022/…

Small town drinking water providers violate federal health standards more often than big cities. In Ferriday, Louisiana, few drink the water after years of problems. apne.ws/1L0oxjY

Construction of I95 in Miami required the forcible relocation of over 12,000 residents—nearly 100% of them black. Using eminent domain, the gov't seized buildings across the heart of Miami's black community in Overtown, offering owners well below market rate—and renters nothing.

Well, look who showed up in New Orleans. Emmanuel Macron was expected. Elon Musk was not. nola.com/news/politics/…

There's been a common refrain in New Orleans' low-income areas since Katrina: Road Home - the largest rebuilding program in US history - left them worse off than their wealthier neighbors. New data shows that they were right. with ProPublica & WWL-TV nola.com/news/katrina/h…

“Like I'm a nobody:” firearm-injured peoples' perspectives on news media reporting about firearm violence sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Breaking: my @NYTimes investigation w/ David Fahrenthold reveals The Natl Restaurant Association’s lucrative scheme: $$ fees unwitting workers pay for ‘food safety certification’ are funneled to cover the costs of the groups’ Goliath battle against higher wages nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/…

Louisiana Guaranty Fund Extends Deadline to File Suit Against FedNat, Maison insurancejournal.com/news/southcent…

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