| BY CHAD CALDER | Staff writer |
Good morning and thanks for joining us. Here are some of the day's top headlines. Who you gonna call? New Orleans' infrastructure chief said this week that the city's 311 system is so hopelessly backlogged with calls to clean out catch basins that people should contact their council members to get a request to him. Also, hurricane season starts today. Ben Myers has the story. Regulated, not banned: Businesses and cannabis enthusiasts dodged a bullet Friday after state lawmakers rejected a bid to ban THC products that have popped up on store shelves in recent years. They did, however, set a number of regulations on the fast-growing $33 million industry. James Finn has the details. Food forest to be felled: The former campus of Living School in New Orleans East is the home of a "food forest" filled with bananas, sweet potatoes, yuca, collard greens and broccoli. The 1-acre patch of trees, plants and native grasses were a four-year project of students and their biology teacher, who had hoped it could live on after the school was closed last week. But it seems that will not be the case. Joni Hess has this report. Thanks for reading, and check out all the latest news, sports and entertainment coverage from The Times-Picayune. Chad | 