Matt Sledge
Baton Rouge Advocate
Chicago, IL, United States
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Judge who OK'd lowering bar on LaToya Cantrell recall signed the petition, didn't disclose it
As organizers of a campaign to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell fought last month to reduce the number of signatures they needed, the judge presiding over the case did → Read More
Parades will return to full routes for Mardi Gras 2023, Mayor LaToya Cantrell says
As New Orleans prepares for Mardi Gras, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Wednesday that all krewes will be able to return to their full, traditional routes. → Read More
Louisiana-themed 'Celebration Riverboat' takes part in Rose Parade
The Louisiana-themed Celebration Riverboat float rolled in the annual parade before the 2023 Rose Bowl college football game. → Read More
Folgers Coffee wins pause on paying disputed $5.1 million New Orleans tax bill
The Folgers Coffee Co. has won a four-month reprieve on a $5.1 million tax bill for its plants in New Orleans East as a legal dispute over whether it’s eligible → Read More
Cantrell paid back consultant for pricey clothes, lawyer claims; mayor silent on federal probe
Another shopkeeper says stylist Tanya Haynes paid hundreds in cash to outfit mayor in white parade suit → Read More
Mayor LaToya Cantrell repays New Orleans $29,000 for flight upgrades
After months of controversy over the costs of her overseas travel, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has repaid City Hall for about $29,000 in first- and business-class flight upgrades. → Read More
PBS anchor Judy Woodruff to keynote annual BGR luncheon next month
Longtime Washington correspondent and PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff will address the Bureau of Governmental Research as the featured speaker at its annual luncheon next month. → Read More
Foundation for Louisiana CEO Flozell Daniels stepping down for new philanthropy job
Flozell Daniels Jr., the longtime leader of the social justice nonprofit group Foundation for Louisiana and a member of several local boards and commissions, is stepping down to take on → Read More
With Mardi Gras over and COVID on the decline, New Orleans ending indoor mask mandate
Amid declining COVID numbers and similar shifts in other Democratic cities, New Orleans will lift its indoor mask mandate on Thursday. → Read More
Louisiana Pardon Board recommends pardon for Homer Plessy, civil rights pioneer
Plessy v. Ferguson enshrined the doctrine of "separate but equal" in the law. → Read More
Residents stuck in hurricane-ravaged LaPlace grow increasingly desperate; tiny gains made Wednesday
Aisha Wilson and dozens of other Hurricane Ida survivors sat in the heat outside a strip mall church Tuesday in LaPlace, desperately waiting for a bus out of town. → Read More
If Cardell Hayes makes bail, he won't be the first helped by split-verdicts ruling
Path to release for 30 defendants full of roadblocks, but a handful have walked out of jail → Read More
Will Louisiana vaccinate prisoners before others? It's a thorny issue in U.S.
Draft plan puts inmates on tier with grocery clerks, teachers → Read More
Keva Landrum and Jason Williams headed to Orleans Parish district attorney runoff
After a fierce debate over who can best remake an office plagued by controversy, New Orleans City Council President Jason Williams and former Judge Keva Landrum advanced to a runoff → Read More
'It's like a war zone': Fighting coronavirus, limited ICU beds, bracing for chaos in New Orleans
With hospital beds quickly filling up, workers being forced to ration critical supplies like N95 masks and Gov. John Bel Edwards warning federal officials that a rising tide of coronavirus → Read More
New film 'Just Mercy' resonates with former Angola lifers, lawyers fighting for exonerations
A new film opening in New Orleans this weekend dramatizes the real-life story of a black man’s desperate efforts to free himself from a Deep South prison after he was → Read More
Roger Goodell a step closer to sworn answers in Saints fans' 'no-call' lawsuit thanks to court ruling
An appellate court decision on Wednesday has put National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell a little bit closer to having to respond under oath to questions about the infamous NFC → Read More
In 2016 Bourbon Street shooting trial, jury deadlocks
A New Orleans jury late Friday night returned a mixed verdict against one of two men charged in the 2016 mass shooting on Bourbon Street, handing him two convictions but → Read More
Orleans Public Defenders staffer fired; court confirms she acted as an attorney without license
An Orleans Public Defenders employee who had represented dozens of clients in court was fired on Tuesday, four days after the state Supreme Court said she does not have a → Read More
Suspected Metairie killer called himself 'the devil' in bizarre incident weeks before shootings
On the morning of April 16, a woman called the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office to report a chilling scene: Her 22-year-old nephew, Sean Barrette, was rocking back and forth outside → Read More