| BY BOB WARREN | Staff writer |
Going big on Grand Isle: Grand Isle was absolutely smacked by Hurricane Ida two summers ago. The island’s coming back, but in a much different way, Blake Paterson reports. There’s an influx of money – and yachts with names like “Badonkadonk” – on the way. Seven times: A New Orleans security guard shot a man seven times outside the public library over the weekend. That’s no typo. When police asked the guard how many times she shot the man, she replied “Too many.” Gordon Russell and Joni Hess report on her subsequent arrest. Alarming infant mortality rates: Louisiana's infant mortality rate is almost 40% higher than the national rate. If that rate were the same as the rate in the rest of the country, about 130 fewer Louisiana babies would die every year. Here's a look at infant-mortality rates in all the state's parishes. And here's Andrea Gallo's deep dive into the state’s failure to tame this problem. Top schools: The state released school testing scores this week that showed some improvement over last year. Marie Fazio crunched the data and has the top 10 schools for three of the biggest school districts in the New Orleans area. Thanks for taking some time with us today. If you aren't a subscriber, you ought to be! Here's a great deal. Cheers, Bob | 