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New Orleans City Council is expected to adopt a range of new requirements for seniors’ living facilities on Thursday, after hundreds of vulnerable residents were left without power and five died in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.
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Louisiana, despite being well accustomed to hurricanes, has no policies in place to help public schools recover from a disaster financially.
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Trash in New Orleans will temporarily be picked up once a week in most neighborhoods to ensure a more consistent pickup schedule for residents, city officials said Saturday, after many had gone weeks, some months, without their garbage collected.
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Charities in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana say giving people money is faster and gives them back agency. But experts say cash alone can’t solve all the problems after a storm.
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FEMA isn’t expected to start taking applications for temporary shelters from the thousands of Hurricane Ida victims who lost homes until mid-November, so state officials are getting the ball rolling with a first-of-its-kind sheltering program.
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Loyola Univesity’s Law Clinic filed a suit Tuesday morning in Orleans Civil District Court against the City of New Orleans after evacuating children held at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center to an adult prison during Hurricane Ida.
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Since Hurricane Ida, reports of “dirty and unsafe” conditions at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where 835 people were evacuated, and of communication issues at outer parish jails that were not evacuated despite mandatory orders have advocates once again calling for improved safety measures for people behind bars during a natural disaster.
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More than 72,000 K-12 students in Louisiana have not returned to the classroom since Hurricane Ida hit late last month, Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley told state legislative members during a Tuesday meeting.
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Entergy does not yet have a timeline for when it will restore power for the residents along Louisiana’s coast still waiting to turn their lights on.
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Hurricane Ida recovery efforts are moving slowly, particularly when it comes to housing, after a vote for disaster aid and the debt ceiling failed this week and resulted in a Congressional spat.