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What New Orleans Taught Me
Lessons from a decade in the Crescent City.
The Justice Reinvestment Act, bipartisan legislation that ended Louisiana’s reign as the most incarcerated place in the world, was eliminated in a two-week special session with the stroke of a pen. Governor Landry recently moved to pause the Barataria Sediment Diversion despite the dozens of millions already invested, undermining a linchpin of the Coastal Master Plan effort to address land loss. The gulf absorbs the runoff of all the nation’s choices , from fertilizers washing down the Mississippi to oil rigs drilling up fossilized dinosaur bones to keep the gas pumps from going dry.
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