| By Chad Calder | Staff writer
TRASH, CONTINUED: The city's all-hands-on-deck initiative to collect rotting garbage from many of the city's streets got off to a slow start this weekend, and you can read why here. St. John the Baptist Parish opened bids for an emergency trash collection contract and got no takers, a sign how how little available capacity there is. Meanwhile, a Lake Terrace man upset over uncollected garbage called 911 to vent his frustrations and ended up allegedly threatening to shoot Mayor LaToya Cantrell. He was arrested.
ASSESSING THE DAMAGE: In an unusual move, the Orleans Parish Assessor's office is going to give homeowners an across-the-board tax break due to the extended outage after Hurricane Ida. It also said larger reductions to assessments due to storm damage could be on their way. In Jefferson Parish, officials say they will likely do a significant mass reduction for hard-hit areas outside the levee system and are considering options for damaged homes inside of it. In other power-related news, a lawsuit has been filed against Entergy Corp. alleging the utility was negligent in not sufficiently upgrading its infrastructure despite evidence that storms like Hurricane Ida are a fact of life now.
LIFE IN LAFITTE: Outside the federal levee protection system, the receding floodwaters have left behind a lot of muck, and questions. Faimon Roberts has our latest dispatch.
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