My New Orleans
02/08/2021
Mardi Gras and Valentine’s Day look different this year as COVID-19 cases, and new strains of the virus, emerge throughout Louisiana and the country. City officials have banned events and ordered bars to close in the coming days before the big Fat Tuesday weekend, while many bars and restaurants have had to close indefinitely. But amid the uncertainty, a few local staples are trying to ensure that local couples are keeping the love alive.
First, The Higgins Hotel New Orleans, the hotel of the National WWII Museum, offers couples the “A Royal Valentine’s Day Sweeten Your Stay” package. Any couple that stays at the hotel between Thursday, Feb. 11, and Sunday, Feb. 14, can take full advantage of this offering. The package includes deluxe accommodations in a King Room, $50 credit for food and beverages at one of the hotel’s restaurants, champagne delivered to the room once you arrive, and a bed of rose petals spread in the room accompanying a Ma
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BATON ROUGE - The state is finally offering some answers after thousands of people were cut off from their unemployment benefits pending a fraud investigation.
There are still thousands of claimants waiting to hear back from someone at the Louisiana Workforce Commission, but 2 On Your Side learned Wednesday afternoon that the LWC is slowly chipping away at those 30,000 claimants who need staff review.
Lorraine Hatton used to be a cook at Red Fish Grill in the French Quarter. It s a job she held for more than a decade until she was laid off in March.
On a friday night, unusual for the french quarter to be this calm. but honestly, a lot of bars closed early, including the redfish grill, sandbagged just in case the water rose in downtown new orleans, which it did last wednesday when they got 8 inches of rain in just a few hours, the forecast was for 5 oa short amount of time here tonight, but so far at least, that hasn t happened. here is more about what this region is anticipating. we have a lot of rain running over the center, expected tropical storm barry is slowly turning its way toward the louisiana gulf coast, organizing and strengthening to a possible category 1 hurricane when it makes landfall, but the biggest threat is and wind, it s rain. the storm expected to dump ten to 20 inches of rain on an already saturated region, possibly up to two feet or more in some area between friday night and sunday. with metaphor mandatory evacuas