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1. Canal Pointe marks year of helping New Orleans families (wdsu.com subscription) — A new residential treatment program in New Orleans is letting pregnant and parenting women receive substance-use recovery care without being separated from their children. Canal Pointe, run by Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana with major support from Humana, has already treated 29 local mothers and cared for 32 children in its first months. The family-centered facility is described as the only one of its kind in the city.
2. New Orleans leaders eye expanding Claiborne corridor. Vendors, city talk about what's next. (nola.com) — City officials are pushing ahead with plans to turn the Claiborne corridor in New Orleans into a larger green, walkable space for vendors and performances, despite funding delays and mixed neighborhood reactions. A new $500,000 federal grant will fund design work for seven more blocks, while vendors under the expressway press for permits, basic services, and better security after a recent shooting.
3. Audit finds thousands of questionable addresses on New Orleans trash rolls (bigcountrynewsconnection.com) — New Orleans' trash rolls may include nearly 13,000 questionable service addresses, potentially wasting sanitation dollars just as city leaders weigh raising monthly trash fees. A new legislative audit found duplicate, vacant, and ineligible properties on the rolls and thousands of locations not paying sanitation fees, prompting a months-long cleanup of records before any fee reset moves forward.
4. Tributes pour in for New Orleans civil rights activist Jerome 'Big Duck' Smith (nola.com) — New Orleans is mourning civil rights leader Jerome "Big Duck" Smith, who died Friday at 87 after decades of activism rooted in the city. Smith helped lead sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and later co-founded Tamborine & Fan to support local children. City officials and community leaders are remembering his impact on generations of New Orleanians and neighborhoods like Treme and Mid-City.
5. New Orleans Jewish community responds to 'Ye' Superdome concert with alternative programming (fox8live.com) — Ye's upcoming Aug. 28 concert at the Caesars Superdome has New Orleans Jewish leaders on alert, prompting alternative educational programming and free admission at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience that day. Community advocates have worked with Superdome officials to prevent the show from becoming a platform for antisemitic rhetoric, while emphasizing learning about Southern Jewish history and identity as a constructive response.
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