New Orleans firefighters put out a blaze yesterday at the Piety Street Recording Studio. Photo via NOFD on X
🚒 A 3-alarm fire broke out at the Piety Street Recording Studio yesterday. Jon Batiste, Dr. John and Little Freddie King are among the musicians to have recorded in the building, which Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' lead singer Alex Ebert bought in 2014. (X)
⚜️ You know who wasn't taking a day off yesterday? The Saints. The team got in a practice ahead of Francine, which left at least some staff spending the night in the team's Metairie training facility. (X)
💵 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Shreveport) scrapped his six-month stopgap spending bill while under pressure to get a deal together ahead of a government shutdown in three weeks. (Axios)
The bill included a crackdown on non-citizen voting, which Gov. Landry attempted recently.
Louisiana recently OK'd the use of mace and pepper spray in juvenile detention facilities. It was already used in long-term "secure care" facilities, and one young man told The Lens that it was common to be pepper sprayed for talking back to guards. (The Lens)
