$50M boost brings 2 New Orleans museums closer to opening

🚧 Two proposed museums are moving forward after the state legislature allocated more than $50 million in the latest session. (The Times-Picayune🔒 )

• The Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience is set to break ground next year in the River District.
• The Louisiana Civil Rights Museum got $25 million, but there's no immediate timeline, the story says. A smaller version is already open in the convention center.

👀 Weekend police news:

• Authorities are looking for an inmate who was accidentally released from the Orleans Justice Center. (WDSU)
• A shooting on the Crescent City Connection yesterday left one person dead and another injured. (Fox 8)
• Two cyclists have been killed on St. Claude Avenue in the past two weeks. (WWL)

🗳️ Eric Skrmetta, a Public Service commissioner, says he'll challenge Bill Cassidy next year for his Senate seat. State treasurer John Fleming and state Sen. Blake Miguez also are running. (WBRZ)