New Orleans city workers rallied outside of City Hall on Thursday following news that a budget crunch could keep the city from meeting payroll. “This budget cannot be balanced on workers’ backs," said Amanda Fallis, president of AFSCME Local 2349, a union representing city workers. The rally took place ahead of a meeting where the City Council approved a measure asking the state Bond Commission to sign off on $125 million in short-term revenue bonds | NOLA.com

In the past year, New Orleans city police officers and Orleans Parish sheriff's deputies have begun enforcing a nightly curfew on Bourbon Street, telling performers, vendors and homeless residents to disperse. The 8 p.m. endpoint has been a part of city ordinance for years, but it wasn't until voters approved a sales tax for the French Quarter in 2021 that neighborhood leaders had the cash to increase enforcement. Now, the future of that enforcement push and other French Quarter public safety in

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