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Another parade is getting shortened for Mardi Gras 2022 and is making other adjustments due to police staffing shortages and the omicron surge.

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.

New Orleans’ City Council has rescinded a resolution to include the Mayor’s Office in the dispersal of education grants, following a request from the city’s public school district, board president Ethan Ashley said during Thursday’s school board meeting.

Louisiana’s Office of Broadband Development & Connectivity is trying to make high speed internet more accessible by accepting proposals from local groups and businesses.

After failing to navigate the process on its own, Lusher Charter School’s board voted unanimously Thursday to hire an outside consultant to oversee the school’s renaming.

With winter weather heading for parts of southeast Louisiana, government offices and schools are in the process of deciding whether to close or remain open.

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.

Federal agencies FEMA and HUD are rebuilding an Obama administration program that redirected disaster survivors to apartments rather than trailers. The policy was reversed by the Trump administration and is now being reinstated by the Biden administration.

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.

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.