It Cost Louisiana $7.5 Million To Rebuild A Grand Isle Beach After Hurricane Zeta
As Louisiana’s only inhabited barrier island, Grand Isle has long been a fishing and recreational destination. Kate Chopin portrayed it as a summer playground for New Orleans’ elite in her complicated 1899 novel
“The Awakening.”
Now it’s more of a working-class destination, though there’s less and less of it to enjoy each year.
The island is on the frontlines of climate change and coastal land loss, facing one of the highest rates of relative sea level rise in the world. Tidal flooding is increasing. Most of the homes are raised up high on stilts.
A more contagious mutation of the coronavirus has been detected in the greater New Orleans area, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed Saturday.
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Newly elected school board members sat for their first slate of meetings this week, probing district priorities ahead of this year’s charter application process.
The district is responsible for assessing requests to open new schools, which can come from charter management organizations that already work with the district or newcomers.
The application process begins in early February with applications due in April. After that, the district takes two months to review materials, conduct interviews and hold public hearings, with Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. expected to make final recommendations to the school board on June 11.
Last year, two organizations completed the application process. Kevin George, the district’s chief accountability officer, told board members he expects this year’s number to be higher based on the number of charter management organizations that have already expressed interest. If approved, new schools would open in the fal
Tulane University administered the first of two Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shots to roughly 50 employees of its School of Medicine yesterday, from custodial