If you’ve been following New Orleans politics or business news recently, you’ve likely heard about the River District. Amid some controversies, we break down why the project matters on bread-and-butter issues like housing and taxes.

Author Archives: Josie Abugov
Josie Abugov is an undergraduate fellow at Harvard Magazine and the former editor-at-large of The Crimson’s weekly magazine, Fifteen Minutes. Abugov has previously interned for the CNN Documentary Unit and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and worked for a producer at PBS SoCal. She graduated from Harvard with high honors in her joint concentration, Social Studies and the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.