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Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration AuthorityThe feds threaten to withhold $2.2 billion from the massive effort to save and restore the state’s diminishing coastline if leaders don’t act soon. -
La’Shance Perry/The LensThe Port of New Orleans plans to “revitalize” the Alabo Street Wharf into a terminal for organic grain. Neighbors in Holy Cross are concerned about grain dust, pests, rodents and a steady line of railcars passing right outside their doors.
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Fired up by a labor movement that’s seen big union victories recently, dollar store workers are organizing in their own way to improve work conditions. -
General store owners in the Gulf South are — once again — looking for new ways to get by as high inflation becomes the latest threat to their businesses. -
If successful, the store at 4300 Ambassador Caffery Parkway would be the second in Louisiana and the third in the Gulf South to unionize this year. -
In Her Hands, a guaranteed income initiative for women, is launching soon in Cuthbert, Georgia and its surrounding counties. Here’s how it’s coming together. -
For years, Farish Street has been viewed as a failed business district. But Black business owners are working to shift the narrative of the historic street. -
The successful, 11-to-1 vote happened weeks after a former shift supervisor that led the unionization effort was fired by higher management. -
As 2022's economic woes continue, more people are using vanpools as a cost-effective way to get to work. It’s also helping out their employers. -
Workers at the downtown Birmingham coffee shop cast a near-unanimous vote to become the first Starbucks location in the state to say yes to forming a union. -
Billie Nyx says their firing from the Maple Street Starbucks was “a deliberate and strategic move” due to their role in unionizing efforts at the coffee shop. -
Starbucks stores in New Orleans and Birmingham could be the next to unionize. Those leading the efforts sit down to discuss why and what they've learned so far.
