| BY BOB WARREN | Staff writer |
Starbucks out, French Truck in: Starbucks made some waves when it announced it was leaving its Canal Street location in New Orleans’ Central Business District, in part due to increased crime. Well, another shop is opening in that location and, wouldn’t you know it, it’s gonna sell coffee, our food guy Ian McNulty reports. ‘Theophile’s Reef’: The outdoors community mourned a few years back when a popular fishing guide was killed in a seaplane crash in Chandeleur Sound. This week, family and friends gathered at a spot south of Lafitte where a reef, dedicated to Theophile Bourgeois III, is being constructed, Marie Fazio reports. The death penalty debate: Nearly all the prisoners on Louisiana’s Death Row filed papers Tuesday seeking clemency, hoping that outgoing Gov. John Bel Edwards, who opposes capital punishment, will spare their lives. But for some friends and families of the crime victims, the push for clemency stirs some strong and complicated emotions. Brothel law: Do laws banning brothels also ban sorority houses? That was a question a reader asked Doug MacCash. So Doug did some, uh, research. Thanks for taking a break with us today. And please consider subscribing to The Times-Picayune with this great deal on digital access. Be sure to mention my name! Bob | 