| By LAUREN WALCK | Staff writer |
Happy Friday, New Orleans. Here's your daily serving of hot headlines, including a presidential visit next week. 🚀 Mission critical: Michoud and Boeing are in the hot seat after their rocket project was absolutely blasted in an internal NASA report that blamed a lack of skilled workers at the New Orleans facility for quality control issues with Artemis. 🏈 Saints are back!: Cue "Choppa Style" because the first preseason game is Saturday night. Here's what you need to know, and a very fun video of the players dancing at training camp. 🥇 Golden baton: Sha’Carri Richardson’s golden moment has arrived, our Paris correspondent Scott Rabalais writes. And her pre-finish line look at the competition has already gone viral. 🦠 COVID rising: Be careful out there. As kids are heading back to school, Louisiana has the second-highest coronavirus levels in the country. Our own Will Sutton shares a tale of warning. Like the Lunch Line? Sign up here. Want to subscribe to The Times-Picayune? Here's the link. Your lunch lady, Lauren |