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New Orleans mayor asks lawmakers for aid, gets skepticism

by Melinda Deslatte
| October 13, 2020 11:27 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell came to the Louisiana Capitol on Tuesday to ask for money to help the city's coronavirus -damaged budget, but Republican lawmakers questioned her economic reopening decisions rather than offering her promises of aid.

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