A trash parade, a mayoral chin wag and Netflix goes inside the New Orleans jail
| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor KREWE OF REFUSE: You have to love this town. In the spirit of satirical Carnival krewes, a Facebook wag named Aaron “Louisiana” Grant has organized a combination protest march and "Trash Parade," the goal being to "raise a stink" about the long-uncollected household garbage around New Orleans. It starts Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Claude and Elysian Fields avenues and ends at City Hall. Related: Perhaps trying to keep the parade turnout low, Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Thursday night that she's dispatching 10 crews of employees, trucks and heavy equipment from City Hall, the Regional Transit Authority and even Louis Armstrong International Airport to help New Orleans' regular contractors haul off overflow garbage.The worst problems are in areas assigned to contractor Metro Service Group Inc., but it's not just in New Orleans where the company has faltered. Metro is also leaving behind garbage bags all over St. John the Baptist Parish. “The smell is horrific,” one resident said. “I pour bleach on mine.” YOU TALKING TO ME? Not one to suffer silently, Cantrell got into a bit of chin wag the other night with a bar patron at the Polo Club Lounge inside the Windsor Court Hotel. Seems a customer said something about her honor, at which point she confronted him. Another person recorded it on video. LIGHTS, CAMERA, SCANDAL! Netflix's upcoming "Jailbirds: New Orleans" promises an up-close, personal and “scandalous" look at women locked up in the Orleans Justice Center. And Sheriff Marlin Gusman's critics are furious over what they call an exploitative waste of public resources. You'll find these stories and more in the Front Page and on NOLA.com. Thanks for starting your day with us. D.B. |
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| Aaron “Louisiana” Grant said it started as a bitter joke. After two weeks without trash pickup at his Marigny home, Grant said he’d had eno… Read more |
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| Video of a confrontation between Mayor LaToya Cantrell and a bar patron at the Windsor Court Hotel that at times grew heated ricocheted across social media Thursday. Read more |
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| Eight years ago, video shot inside the New Orleans jail of inmates using drugs, drinking beer and handling a gun prompted outrage and a costly federal consent decree that still hangs over Sheriff Marlin Gusman. Read more |
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