Election win: New Orleans is now poised to have its first female mayor in the city’s 300-year history—and also the first Big Easy “outsider” to hold the post since the 1960s. City council member LaToya Cantrell, who won Saturday’s election in a landslide, first gained a political following in helping her neighborhood recover from Hurricane Katrina. USA Today reports:

Cantrell will face lingering problems even as New Orleans tourism has rebounded and blight has been reduced. Crime is one. Another…