| BY BOB WARREN | Staff writer |
Payton’s place: Sean Payton to Denver? Might be, sports columnist Jeff Duncan writes. The most successful coach in Saints history – Super Bowl, anyone? – is a hot commodity on the NFL coaching market and has a second interview with the Broncos. . . . Speaking of everyone’s favorite football team, looks like a strongly-worded letter from the owner to NFL brass helped the team and some of its players avoid a batch of hefty fines stemming from the league’s assumption that a star player faked an injury during a game. False! Want more Saints coverage? Sign up for our Saints Insider newsletter. Talking crime: New Orleans’s crime surge got a national airing when Mayor LaToya Cantrell appeared on the Sunday morning talk show “Face the Nation.” Cantrell was one of four mayors discussing crime and policing on the show. Seeing green: New Orleans tree canopy took a beating during Hurricane Katrina – more than 400,000 trees were wiped out by the wind and floodwater. Efforts to restore the canopy in the 17 years since that awful hurricane have come in fits and starts, Tristan Baurick reports. Thanks for reading Lunch Line. And if you're not a subscriber already, check out this great deal. Six months for a buck? Hello! How can you not sign up? Bob | 