| By Ramon Antonio Vargas
In the city’s trash crisis, will less be more?: The garbage collection contractors servicing most of New Orleans are supposed to pick up the trash twice a week, but they had of course fallen behind before Hurricane Ida came and made things worse. Now, our Ben Myers reports, the city is “temporarily” switching to once-weekly garbage collection, hoping that will give residents some semblance of consistency in service while they await permanent fixes to their sanitation woes.
From the slammer to the top of the charts: Baton Rouge rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, better known as NBA YoungBoy, topped the Billboard 200 album chart with a record that he was unable to promote in person because he is in jail awaiting trial on federal gun charges. Our Keith Spera says “Sincerely, Kentrell” returns Louisiana rap to rarefied air once tasted by New Orleans’ No Limit Records, Cash Money Records and Mystikal’s “Let’s Get Ready,” which knocked Madonna’s “Music” out of the top spot.
Woodpecker diehards come out of the woodwork: The ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct, according to the federal government. But a few south Louisianans aren’t sold that the bird which some have come to regard as our state’s answer to Bigfoot is truly gone, our Marie Fazio reports.
Triple shooting in the CBD: A violent work week in New Orleans culminated in a triple shooting Friday night in the 100 block of Carondelet Street on the edge of the city’s Central Business District. Police say they have arrested one man accused of a role in the shooting and are searching for a second suspect as well.
Thanks for coming by as always, and I hope the Saints give you more cheer today than they did the last time out. RAV | 
