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New Orleans won't go with business tweaks allowed Friday

by Associated Press
| April 28, 2020 12:27 PM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In much of Louisiana, restaurant owners are cautiously looking forward to opening some outdoor tables, and mall stores to beginning curbside service. But New Orleans won't be participating in those slight relaxations of rules set up to slow the spread of the new coronavirus — even though Gov. John Bel Edwards cited it as meeting federal guidelines for a wider reopening.

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