| BY BOB WARREN | Staff writer |
Causeway toll hike: Come fall it’ll likely cost more to cross Lake Pontchartrain on the Causeway. An official with the world's longest bridge blames inflation. Sara Pagones has the latest here. School enrollment drops: Public school enrollment across the state has taken a hit in recent years. The pandemic took a bite. But so did hurricanes Laura and Ida. And few places have been as hard hit as St. John the Baptist Parish, Charles Lussier reports. Going big in St. Tammany: Nearly a year ago, the St. Tammany Parish Council took a controversial vote to rezone a large section of open land along I-12 in hopes of creating a massive logistics and manufacturing hub. The first phase of that project is taking shape, Sara Pagones reports. For more business coverage, please sign up for our NOLA Business Insider newsletter. Most haunted: Is there a “most haunted” place in Louisiana? Maybe hard to say. After all, ghosts “are apparently common in Louisiana,” Doug MacCash discovered as he tried to figure out this mystery. Thanks for reading Lunch Line. If you're not a NOLA.com subscriber, check out this great deal. Bob | 