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Goal: Prioritize legislation that will mitigate gun violence. There have been at least 50 mass shootings since the one in Atlanta, where Asian-owned and operated salons and massage parlors were targeted. This shooting made national news and since then gun violence has continued to go unchecked. Recently, a drive-by attack in Ohio left a 39-year-old woman dead and five others injured. In Wisconsin, a shooting in a bar resulted in three deaths and three people injured. A domestic situation involv...

Credit: Bart Everson from Flickr (CC BY 2.0) File photo: Evicted Millions of federal dollars are pouring into New Jersey to help pay for a mountain of rent arrears that have accrued during more than a year of pandemic, but landlords say it won’t be enough to make them whole. And housing advocates predict the money will not stop a wave of evictions whenever Gov. Phil Murphy lifts his ban on ejection for nonpayment of rent. The New Jersey Apartment Association, which represents mostly large lan...

Tulane researchers Lisa Molix, Tiffany Lin and Emilie Taylor Welty stand in front of a vacant pedestal at Canal Street and the newly renamed South Norman C. Francis Parkway. The pedestal was home to the Jefferson Davis monument until it was removed in 2017. (Paula Burch-Celentano, courtesy of Tulane University) By Barri Bronston, Tulane University Researchers from the Tulane University School of Architecture and the School of Science and Engineering are embarking on a project that they hope ...

Assault rifles and other deadly weapons will be removed from Canadian streets, allowing citizens to rest easy. These weapons will no longer be available for madmen to use against innocent people in the deadly mass shootings that ravage our communities. Thank the Prime Minister of Canada for prohibiting them.