About this episode

The episode discusses LSU baseball's recent performance and a significant budget boost for New Orleans from a deal involving Caesars.

* LSU baseball has rattled off five straight wins. Can they keep it going against #5 Georgia this weekend? We’ll talk with WWL.com columnist Jeff Palermo. * The City Council approved a deal to sell the rights to lease payments from Caesars that will give New Orleans a $103 million boost. We’ll go over the deal…and some tweaks the Council made with Becky Mowbray and Paul Rioux from BGR.

People in this episode

Host: Tommy Tucker

Guest: Jeff Palermo

Topics covered

• LSU baseball
• New Orleans budget
• City Council
• Caesars deal
• sports
• local news

Keywords

• LSU baseball
• New Orleans budget
• City Council
• Caesars
• Jeff Palermo
• Georgia
• sports news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: City Council, Caesars, BGR

Places: New Orleans, Georgia

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