Homegrown tech startup Lucid sells for $1 billion
| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor BOOM AND ZOOM: OK, who had Mark Ingram returning to the Saints? A source tells The Times-Picayune that Houston has traded the former Saint running back to New Orleans, setting up a backfield reunion with Alvin Kamara. The Saints drafted the Heisman Trophy winner in 2011, and he spent eight seasons in New Orleans, becoming the team's No. 2 all-time leading rusher behind Deuce McAllister, before he left for Baltimore during free agency in 2019. Here's how other Saints reacted. BREATHE FREELY: Four days before Halloween, Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Wednesday loosened New Orleans's COVID-19 restrictions, ending her requirement that residents and visitors cover their faces in public spaces and tweaking her vaccine mandate to allow a wider variety of negative coronavirus tests as an alternative to getting a shot. Local school systems also began revisiting their mask policies, with St. Tammany immediately dropping its mandate. HOMEGROWN: Lucid, a darling of New Orleans' nascent tech sector, has become Louisiana's first "unicorn" company, selling for more than $1 billion to a Swedish technology firm in a big victory for the city's startup scene. Thanks for starting your day with us. You can catch the latest news all day on NOLA.com. D.B. |
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| Boom and Zoom are back in business in New Orleans, as the Saints are reuniting with running back Mark Ingram, a source confirmed to the Tim… Read more |
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| Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Wednesday loosened New Orleans's COVID-19 restrictions, ending the city's requirement that residents and visitors wear masks in public spaces and tweaking the city's vaccine mandate to allow a wider variety of negative coronavirus tests as an alternative to getting a shot. Read more |
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| New Orleans area school systems had a mixed response Wednesday to the lifting of Louisiana's indoor mask mandate, with four suburban school systems nixing mask requirements, Jefferson Parish debating a change and Orleans Parish schools keeping its mandate in place. Read more |
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| When Gov. John Bel Edwards revoked the statewide mask mandate -- except in public schools that were not abiding by the Centers for Disease Control's quarantine recommendations -- it left St. Tammany School Board with a choice: Remove the mask requirement or keep the district's policy of not requiring every student to quarantine after a possible exposure to COVID. Read more |
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| Lucid, a darling of New Orleans' nascent tech sector, has become Louisiana's first "unicorn" company, selling for just over $1 billion to a Swedish technology firm in a big victory for the city's startup scene. Read more |
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