Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from LaToya Cantrell

Brickbats: December 2023

News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.

Reason

Saltwater intrusion in NOLA water supply

Mayor LaToya Cantrell signed an emergency declaration on Friday as preparations are made to secure clean water

Salon

Police veteran hailed for reform efforts in Washington, California nominated to be New Orleans chief

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Monday that she has chosen Anne Kirkpatrick, a former chief of police in Spokane, Washington, and Oakland, California, to head the New Orleans Police Department

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Brickbat: Shameful Indeed

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell recently vetoed a bill that would order the owners of an apartment building to rent out a city-owned unit. After the city council overrode her veto, Cantrell said it is "shameful" that the city will not lease a suite in Caesars Superdome, home of the…

Reason

New Orleans mayor’s husband dies

First Gentleman Jason Cantrell was a well-known lawyer

The Independent UK

Tourist shot and waiter killed in New Orleans restaurant shooting during Jazz festival

A waiter at a well-known New Orleans restaurant was killed and a customer who was a tourist visiting the city for the Jazz festival injured in a shooting.

Daily Mirror

Uniquely New Orleans mayoral recall effort fails

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said a “great weight” has been lifted from her with the failure of a recall petition drive that began in August

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell Challenges Lowered Signature Requirement in Recall Effort

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell (D) filed two lawsuits on March 14, 2023, to challenge a consent judgment that was agreed upon by Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin (R) and the organizers of the recall effort against Cantrell. The consent judgment, announced by Ardoin on March 1, 2023, revises…

Ballotpedia

Effort to recall New Orleans' first female mayor fails

The effort to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has failed

The Independent UK

Ballotpedia’s trifecta vulnerability analysis for 2023

Welcome to the Friday, March 17, Brew.

Ballotpedia

New Orleans mayor fights lowered recall signature threshold

The mayor of New Orleans is challenging a court settlement that significantly lowered the number of petition signatures her opponents need to force a recall election

The Independent UK

Judge with key role in recall fight had signed petition

A judge who recently approved a court settlement lowering the number of signatures needed on a recall petition against New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell had signed that petition in December

The Independent UK

Mardi Gras ebullience intersects with crime worry, politics

It's Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday in New Orleans — and the annual, ebullient climax of the city's Carnival season comes this year with some political intrigue

The Independent UK

Spreading the joy: Longer parade routes OKd for Mardi Gras

COVID-19 precautions wiped out most New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festivities in 2021, and a shortage of police officers forced the city to shorten routes for some of its lavish seasonal parades in 2022

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Crime worries underpin celebration as Carnival season begins

New Orleans is kicking off its annual Carnival season

Reason

Brickbats: January 2023

News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.

Reason

Brickbat: Living Large

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has been living in an apartment in a city-owned building without paying rent, and city officials said that appears to violate no policies. The apartment in the historic Upper Portalba building has a rent of $2,991 a month. But no rent on the apartment was…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Next Miss Universe Pageant to Be Broadcast from New Orleans

New Orleans will be the site of the 71st Miss Universe contest, bringing together nearly 90 women contestants from around the world in January, the Miss Universe Organization said. “The City of New Orleans and the Miss Universe Organization share common values of celebrating inclusion, culture and the empowerment of…

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reason

Brickbat: Flying High

New Orleans city policy requires employees flying on city business to take the lowest airfare possible or to reimburse the city the difference if they upgrade. But so far this year, Mayor LaToya Cantrell has run up $29,000 in first- and business-class airfare costs above what it would have cost…

The Independent UK

Ex-NYPD patrol chief named consulting chief in New Orleans

A former chief of patrol for the New York City Police Department will serve temporarily as “consulting Chief of Operations” for the undermanned New Orleans Police Department

Salon

GOP's New Orleans flood fund "blackmail"

New Orleans is refusing to prosecute people under Louisiana's new draconian abortion ban

The Independent UK

New Orleans moves to end federal oversight of police

New Orleans officials have formally asked a federal judge to end court-supervised oversight of its police department under a pact negotiated with the U.S. Justice Department a decade ago

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the New Orleans Saints

Miss Universe Organization

12 stories

the New Orleans Police Department

12 stories

New York City Police Department

10 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.