What's making news in New Orleans
| 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. We've got all that and more. Thanks for starting your day with us on The Front Page today. CC |
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| The stopgap measure of deploying New Orleans city employees to help pick up trash accumulating on city streets is moving slower than offici… Read more |
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| Struggling like New Orleans to get household garbage picked up after Hurricane Ida, St. John the Baptist Parish’s invitation for an emergen… Read more |
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| A Lake Terrace man accused of calling 911 and threatening to shoot Mayor LaToya Cantrell if his trash didn’t get picked up was jailed this … Read more |
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| New Orleans homeowners are in line for an across-the-board tax break due to the extended outage after Hurricane Ida, in addition to the potential of larger reductions to their assessments due to storm damage, the Orleans Parish Assessor’s Office announced Monday. Read more |
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| Kirk Fisher stood at the top of the stairs in front his raised home in lower Lafitte Monday, smoking a cigarette and drinking a Coke. Read more |
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