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I hope the fire department is on standby.

Not that I disagree that houses cost way to much, but the cottage in Metairie is actually in Old Metairie, which means the lot value is probably $400K.

My son is 12, hasn't played baseball in 2 years. It's sad, he doesn't care about the sport, doesn't know much about it. He plays travel soccer and runs, which fit him better. I played football, but also rec baseball. I feel it taught me an appreciation for the game, which I think you have to have (especially today with so many distractions) to continue to watch and enjoy the game.

Our playground (large playground in Metry) had rec leagues that had 5 to 8 teams. Then they got the travel ball coaches to come in to coach the teams (many of them use the playground facilities for the travel teams), and those coaches just used the rec team as an extra practice for their players. It killed the league, I head they only had 30 players or so turn out this year.

How about we look into how much taxpayer (state and local funds) are spent on Washington Mardi Gras every year. Maybe the follow up can be a comparison of those who paid for hospitality rooms, etc. and the number of contracts those entities received. Would be a fun exercise.

He just moved into a new house and his generator (apparently a Generac) is not working and he has been trying to get it fixed. I guess with the storm hitting today during his show, the generator issue was pissing him off.

I am guessing he was fishing or something? I grew up fishing and hunting the marsh and have hit stumps (obviously we don’t have the cypress like the Tickfaw area), but he must have been running pretty close to shore or running up on shore for that to happen, or am I crazy?

Yes it was, but Joe didn't own the restaurant.

He will be missed, he did plenty of good for the city.

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Very rough day…I flew Delta MSY to ATL yesterday morning…AC wasn’t working right and they were bringing us back to the gate when a passenger had a medical emergency. EMS got him off the plane, thankfully he seemed to be doing fine when they took him off. We finally take off and landed 5 min before my connection. The plane was hot until 20K feet, so they definitely didn’t fix the AC.

I really want to leave NOLA….so many bad things but I am stuck for the next 10 years or so. With that said, today at 3rd and St Charles did something for me, it was perfect (now I left at 5pm, so who know how it is now), it was just perfect. It restored my faith in the city, so many amazing people and visitors who want to take in this place.

Let me know if you have any candidates that fit that profile, they are harder and harder to find. Then, if you find one, they want to be paid $50K base now (at least), plus OT and benefits.

At the end of the day, you are paying $15 - $20 per hour for a kid to flip burgers at McDonald's.

Costs have gone up on everything. CPAs like attorneys, etc. have to raise rates. Rates have increased faster than usual due to inflation, people retiring and overall lack of candidates.

Quite a bit of tax incentives to install chargers. If I had a grocery store, mall, movie theater, gym; somewhere folks can kill time, it could work. I assume it's only a matter of time before most parking garages have charging stations. It would be nice to pull into the office, plug in to charge up then move your car (after a full charge) at lunch time to a regular spot in the garage.

Good advice but the Hall of Fame is closed right now.

I hope the plan is to paint around the "Caesars Superdome" to color that section in. If not, when they painted over the "Mercedes Benz Superdome" they did it with white paint; and the dome's roof is not pure white which shows the contrast.

Unfortunately Capt Mark was killed in a boat accident right before the storm. Very sad, he was a great guy and great captain. He will be missed.

I would recommend Rory

As a CPA, this is good advice. Depending on the complexity of your business, you may want your CPA to review monthly, but you should feel that out. I do think for small businesses without a seasoned Controller or strong bookkeeper who understands financials and tax impacts on the owners, they should be reviewing financials with your CPA quarterly for an hour or so. It’s hard for a CPA to tax plan and provide guidance if you aren’t meeting at least semi regularly.