The city has a drive-thru set up outside City Hall for property tax payments. The deadline is Saturday. Officials are counting on the payments to help bolster the city's financial situation. Photo: Carlie Kollath Wells/Axios
🫣 The city "may soon run out of cash" without "immediate, significant solutions," chief administrative officer Joe Giarrusso told Council members yesterday, noting the "dire budget challenges" the administration inherited. (Fox 8)
🗳️ Defense attorney John Fuller was disqualified yesterday from running for a vacant judge seat in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court over an alleged failure to stay current on his income tax filings. (Fox 8)
🪖 President Trumpmentioned New Orleans in his State of the Union address, calling the National Guard deployment here and elsewhere a "big success." (The Times-Picayune 🔒)
📺 The Samuel L. Jackson series called "NOLA King" that was going to be set in New Orleans has had a creative overhaul. It will now be set in Frisco, Texas, and called "Frisco King." (Deadline)
