Carolyne Heldman

New Orleans fair-weather power outages are raising concerns about aging equipment, as City Council members call on Entergy for greater transparency and stronger maintenance efforts.

Black defendants face major barriers to securing representative juries, while a Lower Ninth Ward family farm wins a settlement after its property was mistakenly treated with pesticides. [...]Read More... from PODCAST: “Where did all my people go?”  (Audio)

Behind The Lens examines the governor’s veto of increased compensation for wrongfully convicted exonerees and the arrest of a 14-year-old student at school.

Delaney Nolan and Katy Reckdahl examine Louisiana’s surge in prolonged ICE detention, legal challenges, immigration court access and a 77-year-old man’s repeated detention.

Environmental reporter Delaney Nolan explains how misinformation helped stop a proposed solar farm in Iberia Parish and what it means for Louisiana's clean energy future.

In this episode of Behind The Lens, reporters Delaney Nolan and Bernard Smith join editor Katy Reckdahl to discuss a U.S. citizen's detention in Lafayette Parish and a new Louisiana law that could limit public access to juror information, raising questions about transparency, civil rights and wrongful convictions.

In Part 2 of this special podcast discussion, Steve Cochran, Ned Randolph, and Katy Reckdahl examine climate change, sea level rise, coastal erosion, resilience, public policy, and the future of New Orleans in response to a study suggesting the city may face an uncertain future.

Public policy advocate Steve Cochran, journalist Ned Randolph, photojournalist Gus Bennett, and Lens editor Katy Reckdahl discuss the growing concerns over sea level rise and whether New Orleans faces a true “point of no return.”

Behind The Lens examines Louisiana’s public parole hearings, criminal justice reforms, Supreme Court decisions and election politics. Bernard Smith, Gus Bennett and Katy Reckdahl discuss how legal rulings and parole decisions shape who goes free and who remains behind bars.

Paraquat use is rising and so are concerns about its link to Parkinson’s disease. A look at one Mississippi county at the center of the issue. [...]Read More... from Paraquat and Parkinson’s: Inside the risks in Wayne County, Mississippi