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Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear a roundup of this week’s top political stories. And we learn how New Orleans public officials are responding to an uptick in crime.
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New Orleans Public Schools plan to ask the city’s newly seated City Council to rescind a recent resolution challenging its authority over education funding, officials told board members Tuesday. -
Parts of southeast Louisiana should brace for icy rain starting Thursday and freezing temperatures until Monday. Affected areas will include the greater Baton Rouge region and the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain.
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It's been three years since the last New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival took place in the New Orleans Fair Grounds due to the coronavirus pandemic canceling two years of festival activities. But in 2022, event organizers said the actual event is coming back.
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Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder is running for governor in 2023 to replace the term-limited Gov. John Bel Edwards, according to an announcement Wednesday.
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The deadline for New Orleans families to submit their school choices for the 2022-23 school year is fast approaching, with the first round of applications set to close Friday.
Arts & Culture
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Craft beer's emphasis on strong flavors has reinvented non-alcoholic beer, bringing better choices than ever to people who want new options.
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At 11, Philip Lazowski found himself alone in a Nazi ghetto as Jews were being sent to their deaths during WWII. At StoryCorps, Philip, now 91, remembers a quick decision that may have saved his life.
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Total Energies and Chevron say they are stopping all operations in Myanmar, citing rampant human rights abuses and deteriorating rule of law since the military overthrew the elected government.
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Set in New York City the early 1880s, this ten-part costume drama is basically an American Downtown Abbey, complete with rich and poor, power brokers and household workers.
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Spector, who died Jan. 12, was part of the 1960s girl group that gave us "Be My Baby." She left the music business for some years but returned to recording in the 1970s. Originally broadcast in 1988.
