Friday budget meeting with sheriff offers preview of next week’s citizen meetings ~Charles Maldonado, The Lens

Honoré: BP deal like an oyster — raw, no pearl

New Orleans City Council begins process for removing Confederate monuments ~Jaquetta White, N.O. Advocate

Confirmed: Fort Polk to lose 388 troops ~WWL

French Bliss: Bastille Day Storms NOLA by Lucy Leonard ~NOLA DEFENDER

Family and friends mourn bicyclist killed in hit-and-run on Elysian Fields Avenue ~Jonathan Burlington

Katrina / Federal Flood 2005: The Debris // Houston  ~Kate Richardson, WWNO

National Weather Service declares New Orleans 'storm ready' ~WWL

NOAA predicts below-average season for commercial harvest of brown shrimp in western Gulf of Mexico

Lil Wayne Announces Lil Weezyana Fest in New Orleans ~Billboard

Sensing ambush, Sheriff Gusman says fuck off to New Orleans lawmakers on special jail meeting

Deadline set for submitting teacher wishlists ~The Advertiser

Levees.org Levee Breach Exhibit Hall and Rain Garden Ribbon Cutting!

 Is the BP settlement enough for environmentalists?

Photos: Krewe of Kolossos Boat Parade 2015

Audubon Society: America's oldest bald eagle lived to see resurgence in species