The Times-Picayune 06-03-2026 by The Advocate

Legislativesession ‘rough’for N.O.

Moreno hassome wins butcitysuffers blowstolocal control

BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer

Mayor Helena Morenohas touted her eight years as astate legislator as proof that she would successfully ﬁght for New Orleans in Baton Rouge —even in theface of aRepublican supermajorityand a governor with apenchant for encroaching on the city’sautonomy

Awhirlwind legislative session thatended on Monday brought atestof thattheory,aslawmakers launched abarrage of legislation with major consequences for New Orleans. Moreno notched wins on aSewerage&Water Board overhauland onfunding for signature infrastructureprojects.

ButonSunday,asRepublican lawmakers rushed to pass the ﬁnal of three controversial bills to slash New Orleans’ judiciary, Moreno acknowledged in a social mediapostthatthe sessionhad been “very, very rough.”

Overthe three-month session, lawmakers blasted through oppo-

sition from New Orleans ofﬁcials and residents to redraw the state’s maps to shrink Black and Democratic representation in Congress. Theydownsized New Orleans’ court system, and they criminalizedsleeping on thestreet —a show of force from aRepublican supermajority emboldened by national policyshifts and undaunted by amore junior New Orleans del-

Newlawstargetforeign seafood

Legislationdesignedto supportstate shrimpers

BY JOSIE ABUGOV Staff writer

Louisiana will soon see tougher regulations on imported seafood with the passage of aslew of laws designed to support the state’sshrimpers, whose industryhas struggled fordecades to compete with cheap foreignimports. Thenew legislationwillimpactstate agencies, seafood retailers and processors. One law,recentlysigned by Gov Jeff Landry,expands the authority of

egation.

Moreno had success with her agenda, said Robert Collins, apoliticalanalyst andDillard University professor —but the passage of other higher-profile bills left residents feeling defeated nonetheless.

“They don’tlike the city of New Orleans—whatwestand forculturally and politically —sothey’re just going to pile on bills that chip

“I really hope that it brings to light the importance of serving and consuming Louisiana seafood.”

REP.JESSICA DOMANGUE, R-Houma

the Agriculture Department to destroy seafood that failstomeetthe state’s testingrequirements.

Another law requires retailers —such as restaurantsand groceries —tokeep invoices of their seafood purchases for

six months. Athird creates penalties for processors and distributors whomix local andimported seafood without labeling the product as such.

Rep. JessicaDomangue, R-Houma, authored six seafood-related bills this session, including those requiring invoices and expanding Agriculture Department authority.Four of them have been signed by thegovernor

“I really hope that it brings to light the importance of serving and consuming Louisianaseafood,” said Domangue, who comes from along line of shrimpersinTerrebonne Parish. “Weknowwe

See SEAFOOD, page 6A

$168 millionwould fund stipend forteachers

BY PATRICK WALL and MEGHAN FRIEDMANN Staff writers

Gov. JeffLandry calledfor anearly $170 million reduction in public school funding Tuesdaytopay for$2,000 stipends for Louisiana teachers, whootherwise stood to lose the paybump theyhave received the past few years instead of raises Theproposed funding cut, which lawmakers must approve, comes afterthe Legislature passeda state budgetlastweek that did not include money forthe temporary stipends. As aresult, Landry said the money will have to come from the roughly $4 billion allocated for public schools, arguing that school and district leaders can weather the cut by reducing “the waste and the bureaucracy.”

“It is time for these school boards to tighten their belt,” Landry said at a news conference at the State Capitol, adding that the savings should go into “teachers’ checks.”

In an executive order Tuesday, Landry said he was reducing state funding for K-12 education by $168

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Congress applauds endof‘weaponizationfund’

BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer

WASHINGTON U.S. House

Speaker Mike Johnsonsaid

Tuesday afternoon that President Donald Trump agreed to drop his demands for $1.8billion“anti-weaponization fund” to allow Republican leadership to shoulder through legislation to pay for deportations until

2030 without any restrictions on the federal ofﬁcers carrying out immigration laws.

“I believethatitisoff the table for consideration,” Johnson, R-Benton, toldreporters aboutthe fund after GOP leaders spent much of theday grapplingwith howtosecuremoney forimmigration enforcement in away that Democratscannotblock.Democrats oppose

funding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection without also adding some controls over the federalofﬁcers, such as wearing bodycamsand badges andremoving their masks.

Akey hurdle wasthe proposed fund to set aside $1.776 billion to compensate people whofelttheyweretargetedby

theBidenDepartmentofJustice. Apanel with ﬁve members, four of them appointed by the president,woulddecide who gotpaidand how muchthey would receive.

JohnsonvisitedTrump on Mondayinthe White House to discuss theproblems thefund, which criticssaw as away to

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STAFF PHOTO By BRETTDUKE

Merlin Schaefer holds up Gulf shrimp at Schaefer’sSeafood in Bucktown on Tuesday

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By ALLISON ROBBERT Acting AttorneyGeneralTodd Blanche testifies before aHousecommittee on Tuesday.

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Police investigate man suspected of killing 6, self MUSCATINE, Iowa Authorities in Iowa are investigating the fatal shootings of six people who they believe were killed by a relative who took his own life when confronted by police Monday.

Four people were found fatally shot when police were called Monday to a home in Muscatine about 50 miles southeast of Cedar Rapids, Muscatine Police Chief Anthony Kies said during a news conference

Ofﬁcers later found the suspect, 52-year-old Ryan Willis McFarland, of Muscatine, on a trail in the city Kies said.

“While talking to Ryan Willis McFarland, he took his own life,” the police chief said

Two other men who also are believed to be relatives of McFarland were later found fatally shot elsewhere in the city, according to Kies. One man was found in his home and the other was discovered dead inside a business, he said. Authorities have yet to release the names of the victims and any details about them.

Cambodia files notice for conciliation with Thailand

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia Cambodia’s government has filed notice under a U.N. agreement on maritime law for compulsory conciliation of a sea border dispute with neighboring Thailand, Prime Minister Hun Manet said Tuesday At issue is territory claimed by both that is believed to contain large, exploitable amounts of natural gas and other hydrocarbons.

The decision to take the matter to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea comes after Thailand last month terminated a 25-year-old memorandum of understanding with Cambodia meant to resolve overlapping maritime claims.

Thailand unilaterally revoked the agreement in May after relations between the countries worsened last year after major armed clashes over their land border

Last year’s ﬁghting with Cambodia spurred nationalistic fervor, putting political pressure on Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to abrogate the pact.

In a live broadcast on TVK state television, Hun Manet said that his government had delivered formal notice to Thailand and to the U.N. secretarygeneral to begin compulsory conciliation proceedings under the convention’s rules

“Cambodia has never violated the sovereignty of other states,” he said. It wasn’t immediately clear when the claim might be adjudicated.

Bangladesh’s Rahman elected U.N. leader

UNITED NATIONS Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman won a hotly contested race Tuesday to be the next president of the 193-member United Nations General Assembly.

In a secret-ballot vote, Rahman defeated Cyprus’ Ambassador Andreas Kakouris 99-91, with three countries not voting He will succeed Germany’s former Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, whose one-year term ends in September.

The presidency of the world body rotates by region and this year it was the Asia-Paciﬁc region’s turn. While the presidency of the General Assembly is largely ceremonial, it is also prestigious It is the U.N. organ where countries large and small can speak, and is the scene of the only annual gathering of world leaders, in September

The General Assembly controls the U.N. budget, adopts treaties, addresses global issues from poverty to corruption, and passes numerous resolutions that while not legally binding almost always reﬂect global opinion.

Rahman previously served as national security adviser in the interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, and as an ambassador. Rahman told diplomats assembled in the General Assembly hall that its 81st session will open “at a historic crossroads” when “trust in our organization is being tested on multiple fronts.

Pulte picked to replace Gabbard

Democrats, Republicans say Trump’s choice seems unqualified

BY JOSH BOAK Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has tapped Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to serve as acting director of national intelligence elevating a real estate scion with no clear national security credentials to a key post as the U.S. remains at war with Iran.

Trump made the surprise announcement Tuesday on social media that Pulte would be replacing Tulsi Gabbard the former Hawaii congresswoman who had served as the director of national intelligence. Trump said Pulte will keep his other positions even as he ﬁlls in for Gabbard, who resigned last month after revealing her husband’s cancer diagnosis.

The Republican president cited Pulte’s work at the housing agency

and his role as chair of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as indicating that his real estate work would overlap with the skills needed to coordinate 18 federal agencies tasked with aspects of foreign and domestic security

“William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Trump’s choice to elevate Pulte, who would also continue in his post at the housing agency, shows how the president is putting a greater priority on loyalty to him, even as the Iran war has damaged Trump politically going into November’s midterm elections and raised concerns about the quality of advice that aides are giving to a president who has rewarded ﬂattery

It’s unclear what national security expertise Pulte brings to bear

as the U.S faces conflict in the Middle East, helps Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s assault and manages the emergence of artiﬁcial intelligence as a military tool.

But Pulte, who’s 38 years old, has been a frequent guest on Air Force

One as Trump has traveled to Mara-Lago, his home and club in Palm Beach, Florida.

On one such ﬂight, the housing ﬁnance director stood in a doorway as Trump discussed with reporters the ballroom he’s building at the White House and handed Trump a series of renderings of the project that the president held up.

Several Senate Republicans reacted skeptically to Pulte’s appointment, questioning whether the housing ﬁnance director has the experience necessary to oversee the intelligence agency

“We don’t need a weaponized DNI. We need professionals there,”

Volunteers serve food in worrying Ebola outbreak

Region already faces severe food crisis

BY JUSTIN KABUMBA and OPE ADETAYO Associated Press

BUNIA Congo For patients in an Ebola outbreak with no approved medicine or vaccine, there is little comfort. But Arlette Basekawike, a volunteer for the U.N. food agency, is doing her best.

Her hair covered by a pink bonnet, Basekawike prepares porridge, omelets and bread for breakfast in a shed outside the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia, the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo Lunch and dinner might include fresh ﬁsh with fufu, made of mashed plantains, ﬁnished off by fruit She feeds both patients and health workers.

“Even though the patients have this disease, they still feel better when they eat, and the doctors have the energy to treat the sick and give them medication,”

Basekawike told The Associated Press as she prepared vegetables and potatoes with goat meat in a large pot “I’m here for them like a parent, preparing food so they feel comfortable.”

Her contribution may appear like a simple task, but it has become a critical support for the remote region as it grapples with the rapidly spreading Bundibugyo virus, the rare species of Ebola conﬁrmed in May.

As of Tuesday, 321 cases including 48 deaths had been conﬁrmed in the Central African nation’s three eastern provinces

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of Ituri, North and South Kivu, according to the World Health Organization. WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said the number of suspected cases has dropped to 116 from 906 last weekend as many were ruled out after investigation.

Neighboring Uganda’s has had 15 cases and one death conﬁrmed, its health ministry said Tuesday Uganda closed its border with Congo last week despite WHO guidance not to do so.

Before the outbreak, the region already faced one of the world’s most severe food crises, because of an ongoing conﬂict that has displaced millions of people as government forces ﬁght rebels. The United Nations has warned that might complicate efforts to manage the spread of the virus among an already wary population

“Ebola is an additional crisis on top of a crisis,” said Olivier Nkakudulu, who heads the World Food Program in Ituri province.

WFP is facing a critical choice as aid cuts by the U.S and other major partners have disrupted operations in the vulnerable region. Efforts to contain the disease, which WHO has deemed a public health emergency of international concern, have been hampered.

Responders say they have ensured patients’ nutritional demands are met as “comfort food” takes on a more signiﬁcant meaning.

“Today we need to increase the amount because the number of patients has gone up,” said Esther Bao, a nurse and one of the volunteers. She worried about patients who, because of their health situation, “don’t eat just any meal.”

calls for 16-year renewal of U.S., Mexico free trade agreement

BY ROB GILLIES Associated Press

TORONTO Canada is calling on the United States and Mexico to renew the free trade agreement among their three countries for another 16 years just as U.S. President Donald Trump revives talk of making Canada the 51st state. Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister for U.S. trade, sent a letter Tuesday to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer

and Mexico’s Economy

Secretary Marcelo Ebrard conveying Canada’s recommendation. “The Agreement is highly beneﬁcial to each of our countries and to the integrated North American economy,” LeBlanc wrote.

The letter comes ahead of the scheduled July review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, the latest iteration of a North American free-trade pact that has intertwined the economies of the United States, Mexico

and Canada since the early 1990s. It can either be subject to annual reviews going forward, or renewed for 16 years. LeBlanc and Canada’s Chief Trade Negotiator Janice Charette were in Washington on Tuesday for a meeting with Greer LeBlanc has said he believes the U.S. might want to have the trade agreement subject to annual reviews, and that the Trump administration might seek to cause uncertainly about the trade pact’s permanence.

said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota. “I’m trying to get more information about the current state of their thinking about that position. And, again, if he’s somebody they want in that position permanently, he’s got, as you all know, a lengthy road ahead of him.“

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in response to questions about Pulte’s national security credentials: “I have no observations on the matter.”

Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and John Cornyn of Texas, all of whom are leaving the chamber after this year’s elections, joined the chorus of wariness against Pulte.

“Doesn’t seem qualified,” Cassidy said.

“I don’t see any evidence of qualifications for that job,” said Cornyn, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

BY FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press

WASHINGTON As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign to pressure Iran into a deal that would end an ongoing war with the U.S. and Israel, the U.S. placed sanctions on Iran’s largest digital asset exchange and three other exchanges, Tuesday

Included in the sanctions are Iran’s largest digital assets firm Nobitex and its chair and co-founder, Amir Hossein Rad. Treasury says Nobitex has processed more than 50% of all Iranian digital asset income last year and supports Iran’s vast sanctions evasion network.

Treasury accuses Nobitex of moving assets and funds out of the country to shield regime wealth after the start of U.S. combat operations in Iran. A representative from Nobitex could not be reached through email.

U.S. officials maintain that Iran relies heavily on

cryptocurrency and other digital assets to evade sanctions. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Reagan National Economic Forum this month, “We have seized about a billion dollars of their crypto.”

The Trump administration’s latest announcement is one of a variety of measures put in place to inﬂict economic pain on Iran. It has also imposed secondary economic sanctions on countries doing business with people, firms, and ships under Iranian control — including allies like the United Arab Emirates and competitors like China Banks have received warnings about handling Iranian money And last week, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Iran’s newly created Persian Gulf Strait Authority, which is an agency intended to control shipping through the narrow Strait of Hormuz. Treasury calls the agency a “scheme to extort international shipping.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By MOSES SAWASAWA

Arlette Basekawike prepares meals for Ebola patients at the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia, Congo, on Monday

Trump signs order that invites vetting of AI models

Mandate gives government 30 days to review systems

BY MATT O’BRIEN AP technology writer

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on oversight of artiﬁcial intelligence Tuesday, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s technological edge.

The order establishes a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to a month before their public release Participation by AI developers would be voluntary, the order says.

“Advanced AI capabilities make our Nation stronger, but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies,” the order says It was not immediately clear to what extent the order differed from the one Trump declined to sign on May 21.

The order says the government would have only 30 days to review an AI system, a shorter time frame than some in the industry were expecting. A longer time period might have been seen as too burdensome for a fast-

moving and highly competitive industry

Trump canceled an Oval Ofﬁce event with tech industry executives last month because he did not like what he saw in the earlier version of the order’s text. “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump told reporters at the time.

That directive was characterized as a voluntary collaboration with participating U.S.-based tech companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, which are sometimes described as “frontier labs” because they are building the most advanced AI systems. Several companies had been planning to have executives present at the May 21 signing event Trump ended up signing it without any ceremony.

The White House said in a social media post Tuesday that the executive order “creates a process for frontier labs to voluntarily share cutting-edge cyber models in order to secure critical infrastructure and strengthen the government’s own cyber defenses. We are NOT conducting oversight of all new models, as that level of government overreach would

have chilling effects on free speech and innovation.”

Juan Londoño, a policy analyst at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, said the order is imperfect but “a step in the right direction to prepare the nation for the release of advanced AI systems.”

He applauded the White House’s characterization of the process as voluntary but said he was concerned about the vagueness of how the government, led by the director of the National Security Agency, will decide which AI models qualify for scrutiny, and how it will decide which “trusted partners” get early access to them.

Londoño said in an interview that giving so much discretion to the NSA director was a “dangerous precedent” that could enable the government to “weaponize” the policy against companies it is clashing with, like Anthropic.

Plans for a new AI cybersecurity directive followed Anthropic’s April announcement of its most advanced AI model, called Claude Mythos, in the middle of the company’s legal fight with the Trump administration over a contract dispute with the Pentagon.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell soon after convened

an urgent meeting with Wall Street CEOs, warning them about the risks posed by Mythos’ apparent ability to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the world’s software. Anthropic has limited access to Mythos to only a small group of trusted partners, such as big tech companies and banks, though it said Tuesday it has expanded that group by another 150 organizations.

Anthropic called Trump’s new order “an important step in strengthening America’s leadership in AI” and

said it looks forward to collaborating with the White House to support its implementation.

Its chief rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, also described the policy as an important step, as did Google.

“As AI capabilities continue to advance, we believe effective safety frameworks should continue to be developed through democratic institutions, informed by technical expertise and broad stakeholder input, to promote accountability and public trust,” said a state-

ment from Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs ofﬁcer Democratic Sen Mark Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also welcomed Trump’s policy but criticized the administration for having “belatedly discovered the need to redo something it hastily dismantled in its ﬁrst year.”

Trump repealed many of former President Joe Biden’s guardrails for AI just hours after returning to the White House last year

Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared fuel tanks, key launch parts

BY MARCIA DUNN AP aerospace writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

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Bezos’ Blue Origin said

Tuesday that last week’s rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and some other critical parts of the launch pad

Critical to NASA’s Artemis moon program, the company’s massive New Glenn rocket blew up during an

engine-firing test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A lightning tower and the transporter-erector used to move and hoist the rocket were destroyed in the blast that sent shock waves across the state.

CEO Dave Limp said the methane, hydrogen and oxygen tanks look to be in good shape The water tank is also ﬁne and the support

tower that’s still standing can be repaired in place. A booster and other rocket parts housed nearby were not damaged.

Overall, this was “a bit of good news,” Limp said in an X update, adding: “We will ﬂy again before the end of this year.”

The cause is still under investigation. Just two days before the

accident, NASA awarded a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Blue Origin, choosing New Glenn rockets to launch a pair of rovers to the moon ahead of the arrival of the ﬁrst Artemis moonwalkers who will drive them. New Glenn also is needed to launch the company’s Blue Moon lander that will be used to get astronauts to the lunar surface in

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed at executive order establishing the framework for the government to vet national security risks of AI models for 30 days before their release.

million in the coming school year, with the money instead going toward $2,000 stipends for teachers and $1,000 for other school support staff State education ofﬁcials estimated that the cut would lower school districts’ state aid by an average of 4% to 5%.

Landry said the money will come from funding for schools’ “noninstructional” expenses, adding that “essential student services” such as school security food services and transportation would not be affected.

“This order does not cut money from the classroom,” he said Two-thirds of the Legislature must approve the change for it to take effect. Lawmakers will have to mail in ballots since the legislative session ended Monday

The proposed $168 million is about $30 million less than what the state spent on stipends last year meaning that some educators who previously received the extra pay including certiﬁed teachers who work as administrators — would lose it this year Landry said Tuesday that the state has spent millions giving stipends to principals and assistant principals who “don’t deserve it.”

The looming cut alarmed school system leaders, who have pleaded for more state funding to account for the rising cost of fuel, insurance and other expenses. Now, instead of getting extra money to cover those costs, school districts will receive nearly $170 million less in state funding.

Sabrina Pence, CEO of FirstLine Schools, a network of four New Orleans charter schools, said the organization spent an additional $900,000 on employee health insurance this year due to rising prices. The proposed funding cut would likely force the network to let go of some personnel, including teachers and paraprofessionals, who she said have helped drive students’ recent academic gains.

“The solutions they keep going for rob Peter to pay Paul,” Pence said about state leaders Vermillion Parish schools Superintendent Thomas Byler said the plan creates uncertainty for school system leaders working to finalize staffing and budgets for the fall. Now they will have to look over their spending plans “with a

ﬁne-tooth comb,” he added.

“Some districts are going to be able to handle this without any problem,” he said, but others “are going to take a severe hit on this.”

‘Difficult choices’

Landry has vowed to give permanent raises to Louisiana’s teachers, who earn about $16,000 less than the national average — but without raising taxes.

He first tried to pay for the raises by tapping into state education trust funds, but a constitutional amendment to do so failed last month at the ballot box. It was the second time voters rejected a proposal to foot the bill for the pay bumps by using the trust funds to pay off teacher retirement debt, with the annual savings going toward raises.

In the wake of May’s election, state leaders pivoted to finding money for teacher stipends within the school-funding formula. Pointing to public schools’ declining enrollment, Landry and legislative leaders have insisted that schools

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should have state money left over to pay teachers more.

“There is no way we can’t ﬁnd a permanent pay raise in those dollars,” Senate President Cameron Henry said last week.

School system leaders argue that they could pay teachers more if state funding had kept up with inﬂation and the rising cost of everything from property insurance to building materials. Some also pushed back on the suggestion that school administrators and other nonclassroom employees are expendable.

“I 100% agree that teachers are the front line,” Byler said, “but I think way more goes into the suc-

cess our schools are seeing than people who aren’t in the system understand.”

Sharon Latten Clark, a state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education member who leads Sophie B. Wright High School in New Orleans, said school leaders want to pay teachers more but they also are contending with rising costs.

“I think it’s going to be challenging for schools,” she said about the proposed cut “but we all do want to do the right thing for teachers.”

State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley told local school superintendents Tuesday that the education department will provide data showing how the governor’s order will affect their budgets

“School system leaders and local school boards will have to make difﬁcult choices in the days, weeks, and months ahead,” he said in the letter adding that he would encourage local communities to show their school systems “grace and patience.”

Long-term solution

Under the Louisiana Constitution, BESE develops the schoolfunding formula, known as the Minimum Foundation Program, which the Legislature must approve. Landry’s order directs the board and the state Department of Education to ﬁnd parts of the formula to cut.

A BESE spokesperson said the board is reviewing Landry’s order “and has not made any decisions at this time.”

Ultimately, Landry also wants BESE to revise the formula to incorporate the stipends as permanent pay raises. On Monday, the Louisiana Legislature passed a resolution appointing a task force to come up with recommendations for how to do so.

In a statement, state Rep. Laurie Schlegel, R-Metairie, who chairs the House Education Committee, said she supports “the Governor’s plan to provide teachers with a stipend because I believe they deserve it.”

State Rep. Jack McFarland, RJonesboro, who as chair of the House Appropriations Committee plays a key role in deciding how to spend taxpayer dollars, said the formula dedicates a little over $1 billion to nonclassroom expenses. It is unclear how much would be left if security, food and transportation costs were excluded from that number McFarland said he does not know whether Landry has the votes to cut $168 million from the education funding formula. There’s “a process that we will go through to determine if we believe those dollars are there,” he said.

But Landry could find support from lawmakers who have expressed frustration with the complexity of the school-funding formula and their lack of control over school spending.

McFarland said he reviewed school expenditure data on the state treasurer’s website and believes there is “a lot of questionable spending there,” while also noting that he does not know “how many millions of dollars that adds up to.”

“I don’t think it applies to all schools,” McFarland added. “Some of those schools I looked at are being more responsible with their spending.”

Staff writers Elyse Carmosino and Marie Fazio contributed reporting.

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away at the powerofthe city,”Collins said. “I think that’s thegeneral feeling of thecitizensofNew Orleans.”

In anews release Monday Moreno celebrated winson all 10 of the legislative priorities she outlined at the start of the session in March.

Among them: One bill, sponsored by state Rep. Stephanie Hilferty,gives the City Council vast authority over the Sewerage &Water Board’sbudgets, personnel and funding, an effort to exert morelocal control over the utility.Moreno on Thursday set up aworking group to begin studying next steps for the S&WB.

Lawmakers alsopermitted local authorities to increase 911 surchargesoncellphone bills —aneffort to ease pressure from the Orleans Parish Communication District on the city’sgeneral fund as the city continues to take out loans to right its ﬁnancesafter botched budgeting last year

And some $11.5 million in the state’scapital budget this year will support infrastructure projectslike Sewerage &Water Board treatment plants, the Municipal Auditoriumand Lincoln Beach.

The city’slegislativepackage “focused on city services, ﬁscal matters, quality of life and increased economic opportunities” and “netted big wins for The City of New Orleans,” Moreno said in her statement.

The“streamlined”approach was “smart” for Moreno so early in her term, said Rep. Mandie Landry,DNew Orleans, who said she met with Moreno’s teamto discuss strategy before the session. But she noted that on the bills targeting New Orleans’ judiciary and representation, Moreno kept a lower proﬁle at the Capitol.

Lawmakers cutseven New Orleans judgeships and consolidated the Orleans criminal and civil district clerk of courtofﬁces, eliminating

HB463 Authorizes 911 surcharge increaseoncellphone bills from $1.25 to $2

SB256 EliminatesOrleans Parish Clerk of Criminal District Court; consolidatesduties with ClerkofCivil District Court

SB217 Reduces the number of Orleans Parish Criminal Courtjudges from 12 to 9and cutstwo judgeshipseach from Municipaland Juvenile courts

HB719 Cuts funding from theOrleans Parish District Attorney’sOffice

HB1237 Eliminates pension penalties for reductions in swornpolice officers

HB45 Stipulates that police retention bonusesare not calculated in pension liability

HB386 Increases finesfor historic preservation violationsfrom $25,000 to $50,000

HB864 Criminalizes storageof flammable material underbridges and otherrights of way

HB2 $11.5 million in capital budget for infrastructure projects

SB197 Reduces the number of state appellate courtjudgesin NewOrleans from 12 to 10

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who’s taking care of New Orleans, you close that door, andthen it can be more of a partnership instead of this ‘takeover’ type of initiative,” Moreno said in September

But in recent months, Moreno hasacknowledged the stacked deck the city faces in Baton Rouge.

“Wehave to start gaining moreseats and gaining more control. Look at what’s happeningtousbecause of who’s controlling the Legislature. It’s notgood forNew Orleans,”Morenosaidata town hall last month hosted by localleaders in New Orleans as the state’sredistricting ﬁght raged at the Capitol.

She notedthe massive increaseinRepublican representationatthe state House since she was elected there in 2010, when Democrats outnumbered Republicans in both the Houseand the Senate.

the state. But on “political issues, representation issues …it’s going to be difﬁcult for any New Orleansmayor to get any traction,” Collins said. Rep. Landry said that Republican lawmakers this session took advantage not just of their large numbers but of the fact that three of New Orleans’ delegates DanaHenry,Sidney BarthelemyIIand Ed T. Murray wereintheir ﬁrst termsthis session. They replaced longtimeleaders Joe Bouie, Matt Willard and Jason Hughes, wholeft forother roles.

“It’s bullying,”Landry said. And especially as the city struggles with population loss and economic challenges, she said, “it’sjust so easy to do it.” Ron Faucheux, apolitical analyst, said that the power imbalance and the city’s financialchallenges mean that Moreno hastotread lightly

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theposition Calvin Duncan overwhelmingly wonlast year.A final-hour move to yank funding from the OrleansParishDistrict Attorney’sOffice to fund other prosecutorsin the stateis expectedtocost thedistrict attorney about$500,000.

In their redistrictinglegislation, lawmakers opted to cut Baton Rouge’s representative rather than New Orleans’, but the diminished Black and Democratic representationwill mean less support for majority-Black, majority-Democratic New Orleans’ priorities.

Lawmakers on Friday agreed to makesleeping outsidea crime, despiteopposition from New Orleans ofﬁcialsand advocates who said the move ran afoul of thecity’s effort to end homelessness by providing housing and other services. Moreno saidata town hall that theSupreme Court’s

strike-down of Louisiana’s second majority-Black district and the Legislature’seffort to redraw congressional mapstocomply “diluted the power of New Orleans voters.” She also urged theCity Council to call an election to ﬁll theclerk of court’sjob,in abid, shesaid, to give New Orleans voters some say in the process that hadbeen dictated by Baton Rouge. ButRep. Landry said Moreno could have shown up at the Capitol to voice her opposition to the redistricting and courts bills directly In astatementTuesday, AndrewTuozzolo, Moreno’s special counsel, said thatMoreno “publicly and strongly opposed theattacks on our courts, our districts, as well as directly interveningonthe Clerkissue as well. Where the city hada voice and avote, she used it to protect the people of New Orleans.”

When Moreno took office this year,longtime political watchers looked optimistically toward areset of the fraught relationship between city andstate government. In thefaceofinterventions from Gov. Jeff Landryand Republican AttorneyGeneral Liz Murrilloneverything from homelessness to immigration enforcement to school-zone cameras, MayorLaToyaCantrellhad been largely silent as she faced scandal after scandal Last year,unlikeinprevious years, Cantrell’sadministration did notannounceaformal legislative agenda.

Moreno,who was spoken about behind closed doors as the governor’spreferred pick for mayor,blamed someofLandry’smore aggressive local interventions on Cantrell’sfailure to manage the city’saffairs.

“When this cityhas agood mayor and astrongleader

“Even though she is aformer legislator,former representative, and she still has friends, colleagues —the bottom line is just the partisandivisions are so strong in the Louisiana state Legislature,” Collins said.

Collins said the city still has pull on economic issues because of the impact of the city’s tourism economy on

“She’s in avery, very difﬁcultposition, becauseifshe goes up there and ﬁghts with the Legislature and makes this ‘(the) bluecityversus the red state that it’swithin,’ then thecityloses everything,” Faucheux said. Staff writer Ben Myers contributed to this report.

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She found compassionate,coordinated care at Touro, whereher care team, includingDr. Alfred JohnColfry, III, Dr.George Zacharia, and Physician Assistants Olivia Borello and KarleyBoagni, developed atailoredplanfor Diana that included surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Today, she is cancer-freeand uses her artistry to empowerother breast cancer survivorsthrough 3Dareolatattooing.With National Cancer SurvivorsDay coming up on Sunday,her storyisa powerful reminder of resilience, and thelife-changing difference compassionate cancer care canmake.

don’thave control of what happens with the federal government. We justwant Louisiana grocers and restaurants to (buy local seafood).”

To urge more federal action on the issue, Domangue co-authored aresolution urging Congress to pass the American Seafood Competitiveness Act. Thatlegislation would expand U.S. Department of Agriculture loans to commercial ﬁshermen and seafood processors, essentially giving the industry access to government programs historically given to farmers. Sens. AngusKing, I-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced theact in late March

In Louisiana, the issue of imported seafoodhas been arecurring subject among lawmakers in recent years. According to the Foodand Drug Administration, 95% of the seafood consumedin the U.S. is imported from other countries, which can drive down prices for the domestic industry

Adding to that, shrimpers and advocates have complained of restaurantsmis-

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labeling importedshrimp as local. As of last year, restaurants are required to clearly state the country of origin of the shrimp and crawﬁsh that they’reselling,orelseface thousandsofdollars in ﬁnes.

‘Encourage proper testing’

TwoofDomangue’sbills will give more authority to theLouisiana Department of Agriculture andForestry, which is responsiblefor

compensateMAGA allies,creates when trying to ﬁnd enoughvotes with such narrow majorities in the House and Senate.

“I told him that it was adifﬁcult prospect right now,given our vote tallies,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday

Anumber of Republican senators opposed the idea. U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy,R-Baton Rouge, is one “Weshouldn’t care forthatbecause it’sgot poor oversight,”Cassidy said.

Cassidy said he did not likethe possibility that participants in the Jan.6,2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol could get paid.

“So somebody beats up apolice

testing imported seafood for antibiotics andharmful contaminants. Underthe current system, the department inspects theseafood butisrequired to bringin the Health Departmentto seize thepotentially harmful food.Underthe newlaw,Act 122, theAgriculture Department itself can “seize, hold, or destroy” any seafood that fails to meet stateregulations.

ofﬁcerand would get money,” Cassidy said Tuesday He noted that one of the Jan. 6defendantswas pardoned by Trump for firing agun and was arrested inOctoberonchargesof drugging,kidnapping and sexually assaultingawoman.

“I ain’tvoting forthat,and I think there’salot of other people whoare really concerned about that,” Cassidysaid.

Tyingupbudgetstrategy

Using aonce-rare procedure called reconciliation, additional money canbeadded to an annual spending plan with asimple majority of the House andSenate.

TheSenate, which had planned to vote on the reconciliation bill Wednesday, does not have thesupport among Republicanstoreach the51 votesneeded—largely

“It’sa more efficient method,” said Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain “At the end of the day,all the things we’re doing is to encourage proper testing.”

This will notstrip the Health Departmentofany authority,Strain said, but give thestate morestaffingtoinspect and remove potentially harmful seafood

The other lawrequiring

because of Trump’santi-weaponization fund, said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota.

Thune said keeping the bill’slanguage speciﬁcally limited to immigrationenforcement funding not only would bring along wary Republicans, but limit thenumber of changesthatopponents would try to add during thehandful of votes by the full Senate—called “votea-rama” on Capitol Hill —that are required for reconciliation.

“Conﬁning the bill to its original intent, which was avery narrowly focused reconciliation bill that just addressesthe funding for(immigration enforcement), is the clearest pathtoultimately gettingabill on the president’sdesk,” Thune said.

The100-seatSenatehas 53 Republicans. If everyone shows up to

seafood retailers to keep invoices of their purchases forsix months will also help the agency keep track of the flow of products as it conductsinvestigations, Strain said.

Domangue had also sponsoredHouse Bill 109, which would have dedicated revenue that thestate takesin from sports gambling to an “imported seafood safety fund.” That bill did not pass this session, “leaving sports gambling where it is now,” Domangue said.

Another bill that would allowthe fund to be used forthe Agriculture Department to market and promoteLouisiana seafood was signed into law,but there is no money allocated to it.

“We’re going to go back to the drawing board on that one next year,” Domangue said. “Itwill be abetter time given it’saﬁscal session.”

Mixedupshrimp

In one of the few seafood bills not led by Domangue, Rep. Timothy Kerner,RLaﬁtte, authored the seafood mixing, or “commingling,” bill signed by Landry in May.Inaddition to labeling the country of origin of purchased seafood,processors and distributors can face fines for selling “commin-

vote and Democrats don’twaiver, Thune can lose only three Republicans, providedVicePresidentJD Vance is availabletovote.

Trump backed the opponent of incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn, of Texas, who, like Cassidy,lost in the party primary And incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis, aNorth Carolina Republican, decided not to seek reelection.

Buteven Republican senators who have faithfully followed Trump’sdictates are raising questions about thefund thatwas part of asettlement in alawsuitbythe Trumpfamily against the Internal Revenue Service.

After Johnson’sMonday meeting with Trump, the Department of Justice announced it is pausing creation of thefund until acourt ruled on June 12 and the administration would follow that ruling.

gled” seafood while labeling it as domestic. The commingling law will take effect at the beginning of August. This law also aligns with the recent work of SeaD Consulting, afood technology company collecting shrimpsamples at eateries across the South, documenting apattern of shrimp fraud. Dave Williams, the commercial ﬁsheries scientist whofounded the company,said his team developednew technologythatrevealswhether shrimp of different geographic species aremixed in asingle sample.

The commingling technology is an additiontothe company’srapid genetic test, which can help determinewhether arestaurant is serving local catch or foreign imports. “Itgives us agrasp of how much imported DNAispresent,” Williamssaid. “Itgives afairly accurate ratio.”

TheLouisiana Shrimp Task Force, which reports to the state wildlife agency, previously hiredWilliams’ company to conduct the seafood genetic testing.

Email Josie Abugov at josie.abugov@theadvocate. com.

“Just saying we’re going to follow the order doesn’ttell me about their position on the weaponization fund,” Sen. John Kennedy,R-Madisonville, toldreporters Monday He likenedthe effort to include the fund withthe reconciliation process“lookslike abrokenarm with the bone sticking out.”

Aftersenatorsmet to discuss reconciliation over lunch Tuesday, Kennedy said he and others would watch the testimonyofacting AttorneyGeneral Todd Blanche before the House Appropriations Committee that was scheduled to begin afew hours later “Weare not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche told the House Appropriations Committee “Ever?” askedRep.Grace Meng, D-New York. “Ever,” Blanche said. “We’re not moving forward with the fund.”

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Researcherslose critical climaterecord

Oceanobservatory will go darkunder

Trumpfunding cuts

BY ANNIKA HAMMERSCHLAG Associated Press

SEATTLE— Aportion of one of the most ambitious oceanmonitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board aresearch vessel and motor off the Oregon coast to pull aresearch buoy from deep out of thePaciﬁc.

The buoy 260feetbelow thewater’ssurface will be removed June 16 from the Ocean Observatories Initiative—anetwork of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million that has continuously collected real-timedata for more than adecade. But last month, the National Science Foundationannounceditwould dismantle most of the system, pulling instruments from waters off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland by2027.

Funded by the foundation, the observatories have tracked everything fromocean circulation and marine ecosystems to climate change and extreme weather.Its data hasbeen freelyavailable and has informed more than 500 scientiﬁc publications. The projectwas slated to run for another 15 to 20 years. In an emailedstatement, thefoundation saidthe decision is nota cancellation, but a“descoping” aligned with a“wider strategy of animbler approach to prioritize support for evolvingscientific prioritiesand emerging technologies, as well as smart lifecycle management within its research infrastructure portfolio.” The foundation added that its decision drew in part on a 2025 National Academies report on the future of ocean science. But for the scientists who built and operated the system —and the researchers, educators and students who rely on its data —the timing feels particularly punishing.

An El Nino event, which disrupts weather patterns and supercharg-

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Foundation announced it would be dismantling most of the system, pulling the instruments in several locations.

es marineheat waves, is predicted to arrive along the Pacific coast this summer.One marine heat wave is alreadypushing unusually warm water off California.

Withoutthe Oregonand Washingtonmoorings and the network of underwater glidersthe Ocean Observatories Initiative operated in the region, researchers say they’ll lose much of their ability to measure what’shappening below the surface, which is precisely wherethe most signiﬁcant oceanographic signals are.

“It’sa cripplinglossofinformation,” Ed Dever,aprofessor at Oregon State University who helped lead theinitiative’s Paciﬁc Northwest operations,toldThe AssociatedPress Tuesday.Scientists can get some data from the surface, such as temperature and the distribution of chlorophyll, which drives photosynthesis in plants,but informationbelow cannot be gathered from satellites alone, including low

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oxygen zones.

Theinitiative launchedin2015 after more than adecade of communityplanning and construction. It was designed as a25to30-year project, built in part around the oceanographic consensus thatdetectingmeaningful climate signals requiresatleastthree decades of continuous data. “We’ve just got to the10year record,” Dever said, “whichwill give you somehints, but it won’tcontinue on.”

Onesignificant piece will remain: aseafloor cable network managed by the University of Washington off the Pacific Northwest coast which will continue providing data on volcanic and seismic activity in theregion. Scientists had seen warning signs as the administration’sproposed 2026 budget included a55% cut to the science foundation. Officialwordtobegin shutting down arrived in early May

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“What’shappening with the Ocean Observatories Initiative is not unique,” he said. “This is just one of anumber of science facilities that is being dismantled at the present time. It seemstoreally markthe endofa federal commitmenttobasicscientiﬁc research —acommitment that has served this nation very well forthe last 70 years.”

Pair broughtvials into U.S.,liedtoauthorities

BY ED WHITE Associated Press

DETROIT— Twoscientists at

aU.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the countryfromAfricaand lying aboutitduring interviews with investigators at aMichigan airport, authorities said Tuesday Acriminal complaint was unsealed in federal court in Detroit against VincentMunster,who is chiefofthe virus ecology section at Rocky MountainLaboratories in Hamilton, Montana, and Claude Kwe,who works with him MunsterandKwewerestopped at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in January after aﬂight from Paris andnine days in theRepublic of Congo. An outbreak of the mpox disease has been linked to more than 2,000 deaths in Congo, avast regionincentral Africa, though a two-year outbreak was declared over in April. Munster “adamantly denied” returning to the U.S.with biological materials or samples, the FBI said in acourt ﬁling. But tests subsequently revealed that Munsterand Kwe were traveling with vials of deactivated mpox, theFBI said, yet theyhad failedtodeclarethemor obtainthe necessary permission

“Any deliberate effort to concealand smuggle biological materials into the United States without proper authorization is abreach of the public’strust and could have placed the public at risk,” said Marcus Sykes of the Ofﬁce of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Trumpdisputes claims Iran

hasstopped communicating

Severalreports saymediating talks haveceased

BY JON GAMBRELL, SAMY MAGDY and NASSER KARIMI Associated Press

DUBAI,United Arab Emirates Iran

CO IN T MI EAST

stopped communicating with mediators about extending aceasefire in the war with the U.S. and Israel two semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported Tuesday,but President Donald Trump disputed the claim and said talks were continuing. The reportsby the Fars andTasnim news agencies,both believed to be closetoIran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, came as tensions flared in Israel’s separate but related fight against the Iranian-backedmilitia Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Powerful militias in Iraq will starthanding in weaponstoauthorities

Some factions to surrenderarms, others offercoordination with forces

BY STELLAMARTANY Associated Press

IRBIL, Iraq

wouldsplit from hispolitical movement and integrate into state institutions.

Under pressure from Washington, PrimeMinister Alial-Zaidi has been working to assert state authority over weapons. Al-Zaidi, a40-year-old bankersworninlast month, has made astate monopoly on arms acenterpiece of his program

The Trump administration has warned against having any Iraqi government inﬂuenced by Iranlinked factions andhas tied defense cooperation and funding to efforts to curb them.

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Aregional ofﬁcial involved in the mediation, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the talks, told The Associated Press thatIranhad not communicatedatall on Tuesday aftersaying that aceaseﬁre needed to be enforced in Lebanon for negotiations to continue.

In other developments, the U.S. military said it ﬁred amissile to halt another oil tanker trying to reach an Iranian port in violation of the American blockade. It was the seventh ship stopped by the military while trying to run the blockade, U.S. Central Command said in asocialmedia post

The Botswana-flagged merchant vessel M/T Lexie was stopped by an aircraft firing aHellfire missile into its engine room after thecrew ignored repeated warningsover 24 hours,the post said.

Talks‘goingoncontinuously’

Trump called reports of acessation in talks “false and erroneous.”

“The conversations between us have been goingoncontinuously including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago and today,” Trump said in aso-

cial media post. “Where they lead, one never knows, but as Itold Iran, ‘It’stime, oneway or another,for you to make aDeal.”

U.S.Secretary of StateMarco Rubio did not addressthe reported cutoff in communications as he testiﬁed at acongressional hearing in Washington. Instead, he sounded an optimistic note about the nuclear dimension of the negotiations, while cautioning that there’s no guarantee of reaching “a deal that’sacceptable.”

Iran hasbeentrying to increase pressure on Trumpovernegotiations on the Iranwar ceaseﬁre and loosening the Islamic Republic’s chokehold on theStrait of Hormuz andthe oil, gas and other commodities that normally passthrough it Trumpthencould potentially push Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to haltorslow theadvance of his forces,which have moved deeper into Lebanon than at any timeinover aquarter of a century

Theconﬂictshave increasingly become conjoined, as Iran insists that any potential truce in the war there must also quell theﬁghting in Lebanon.

Israel andthe U.S. maintain the fighting in Lebanonisseparate from theIran war talks.

Inflationtakes an economic toll

Meanwhile,year-on-year inflation in Iran reached alevel in May

unseen since World WarII, underlining theeconomic pain average Iranians are facing. While theU.S. is eager to ease the Islamic Republic’s grip on thestrait —through whichaﬁfthofall traded oiland naturalgas passed in peacetime —Iran faces economic challenges as its oil-backed economy remains under aU.S. naval blockade.

Economic pressure touched off nationwide protestsinIranin2017 into 2018, when rising food prices sparked demonstrationsthat killed over 20 people and sawhundreds arrested.The next year,anincrease in government-subsidized gasoline prices caused protests that saw over 300 people reportedly killed.

Thencame theprotests over the collapsing value of Iran’scurrency, therial, at thestart of this year.They were themostintense demonstrations to shake the Islamic Republic since its1979 revolution and the chaotic years that followed. Iran’stheocracy met January’s protests with acrackdown on demonstrators in Januarythat killed over 7,000 people, according to activists’ estimates.

Now,evenashard-linershold gun-handling workshops and organize marriages under the shadow of aballistic missile to bolster spirits, experts note there could be newdemonstrations if people ﬁnd themselves priced outoffeeding their families.

TwoofIraq’smost powerfulIran-backed militias said on Tuesday they would begin handing in their weapons to the authorities, amajor step in the newgovernment’s effort to rein in militias that have long operated on their own even though they were nominally under state command.

One of thegroups,AsaibAhl al-Haq, said it had formed acommittee to overseethe move, inventory its ﬁghters, weapons and equipment, and coordinate with thecommander-in-chief of Iraq’s armed forces. It cast the decision as aresponse to calls by Iraq’s top Shiite religious authority and the Iran-alignedCoordination Framework, the largest bloc in Parliament that dominatesIraqi politics.

The second group, the Imam Ali Brigades, made asimilarannouncementsaying the time has come “tobuild astrong state with full sovereignty.” It addedthat its aim wasnow to have weapons only with the state and help boost stateinstitutions.

The war in theMiddle East, which theUnited Statesand Israel launchedonFeb. 28 with strikes on Iran, has exposed the fragility of Iraq’sstate institutionsand their limited ability to restrain Iran-backed groups.

Aparallel confrontation between Washington and themilitias has deepened the crisis, with factions acting as an extension of Iran’sregional campaign and escalating attacks on U.S. assets in Iraq before atenuous ceaseﬁre deal was reached in April.

Aweek ago, inﬂuentialShiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said his Sarayaal-Salammilitia, also known as thePeace Brigades,

Many Iran-backed militias are funded through the Iraqi state budget and embedded within the security apparatus, although not under the government’scontrol. This has drawn criticism from the U.S. and other countries that have bornethe bruntofattacksbythe militias andwhich say Baghdad has failed to take a tougher stance on armed groups.

Several armed factions aligned with Iraq’s Coordination Frameworkhave taken adifferent stanceonefforts to bring weapons under state control. Twoimportant groups, Kataib Hezbollah and Harakat al-Nujaba, have rejected disarmament, tying the issue to Iraq’ssovereignty and the presence of foreign troops.

KataibHezbollah welcomed moves by other factions to place weapons under state authority butsaidits ownarmed activity will continue as part of what it describes as “resistance work.”

In arecent statement attributed to its Abu Mujahid al-Assaf social media channel, the group said it would offer to coordinate with the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces —astate-backed umbrella of mostlyShiitearmedgroups rather than surrender its arms.

The Popular Mobilization Forces wasformed in 2014 to ﬁght the Sunni militant Islamic State group, which at the time had seized awide swath of Iraqi territory.Many of its groups still keep theirown commandand ties to Iran.

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Trump changes steel, aluminum, copper tariffs

NEW YORK President Donald Trump on Monday adjusted tariffs on some steel, aluminum and copper imports, lowering some tariffs on farming equipment and extending the lower rate to other equipment.

In an executive order, Trump lowered tariffs on agricultural equipment, including combines and harvesters, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, to 15% from 25%.

He expanded the existing category of industrial equipment that is subject to a 15% tariff to include mobile industrial equipment like bulldozers and forklifts — when they’re imported from countries that have a trade deal with the U.S

The order says countries that use at least 85% melted and poured or smelted and cast steel or aluminum by weight could qualifyforalower10%dutyrate, in an effort to encourage companies in other countries to use U.S. metals.

The changes go into effect

Monday.Theyaretemporaryand set to expire at the end of 2027.

“In my judgment, this temporary modiﬁcation appropriately accounts for these products’ roles in productive economic activity in the United States,” Trump said in his order

General Mills agrees to sell Häagen-Dazs shops

HONG KONG General Mills is selling its Häagen-Dazs icecream shops in mainland China to an investor group that includes Chinese tea brand Ningji. Minneapolis-based General Mills said in a statement late Monday that the deal will allow the buyers to exclusively sell the Häagen-Dazs brand in ice cream shops and gifting businesses across mainland China. General Mills will continue to sell Häagen-Dazs ice cream to Chinese retail and food service operations.

Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The deal is expected to close by the end of this year General Mills didn’t immediately respond Tuesday when asked how many Häagen-Dazs stores it has in China. In its latest annual report, General Mills said it operated 332 ice cream parlors worldwide.

Ningji operates around 3,000 retail tea outlets in China. It opened its chain of stores in 2021 and has received funding from ByteDance, the Beijing-headquartered creator of TikTok, and Shunwei Capital.

Southwest Airlines shakes up leadership

Southwest Airlines is shaking up its leadership as the Dallas-based carrier continues evaluating further changes to its business operation, such as the addition of lounges and long-haul international ﬂights.

Andrew Watterson, Southwest’s chief operating officer who had led the airline’s commercial unit is now focused entirely on operations, the airline announced last week. Southwest elevated operations executive Justin Jones to chief commercial ofﬁcer reporting directly to CEO Bob Jordan. Southwest also said that it’s refining its customers and people division, with chief customer and brand ofﬁcer Tony Roach now reporting to Jordan and chief people officer Elizabeth Bryant reporting to Roach. Southwest, which is based at Dallas Love Field, touted the changes as a way to increase focus on operational and commercial performance, strengthen its commercial strategy and roll out a more connected experience for its employees and customers.

“These changes position us to move forward with greater clarity, stronger execution, and deeper connection across our company,” Jordan said in a statement. The leadership shake-up comes just over a month since the airline reported record ﬁrstquarter operating revenue of $7.2 billion and net income of $227 million.

Wall Street inches to more records

BY STAN CHOE AP business writer

NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market

inched to more records Tuesday as winners of the artiﬁcial-intelligence boom kept driving higher The S&P 500 rose 0.1% after drifting between small gains and losses through the day The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 228 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite edged up by less than 0.1%. All three set all-time highs.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise helped lead the market, and its stock soared 19.5% after it reported a proﬁt for the latest quarter that blew past analysts’ expectations. It credited demand from customers

building their artiﬁcial-intelligence capabilities.

Marvell Technology leaped 32.5% for its best day since its stock began trading in 2000 after Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, suggested at a conference in Taiwan that Marvell could be “the next trillion-dollar company.” The last company to enter the expanding club of behemoths was Micron Technology, which is likewise riding the AI wave. Nvidia, which slipped 0.7%, has seen its total value top $5 trillion.

Generac climbed 5.7% after saying it signed a deal to provide backup power generators to an unnamed “leading hyperscale data center operator.”

Such “hyperscalers” are spending tremendous amounts of money to build huge AI data centers, which are powering what proponents believe is the next great revolution for the global economy Alphabet is one of those hyperscalers, and the parent company of Google said it’s raising $80 billion in cash to help pay for its investments by selling shares of its stock It’s planning to spend as much as $190 billion on equipment and other investments this year

That’s more than all the stock of The Walt Disney Co is worth, and Alphabet is forecasting its spending on investments next year will “signiﬁcantly increase.” Such huge sums raise the ques-

tion about whether AI can produce the proﬁts and productivity necessary to make all the investment worth it. Critics have already been talking about the possibility of a bubble in AI investment, and Alphabet’s stock fell 3.9%. It was one of the heaviest weights on the S&P 500. All told, the S&P 500 rose 9.82 points to 7,609.78. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 228.91 to 51,307.79,

Trump administration proposes 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil

BY PAUL WISEMAN and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press

WASHINGTON The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable” and that “burden or restrict U.S commerce.”

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he received the decision “with indignation.” He also blamed the decision by the U.S. administration on his rival in October’s elections, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, who visited Washington last week. The senator is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, once nicknamed “the Trump of the Tropics” by his allies

The announcement late Monday came after an investigation by the Ofﬁce of the U.S. Trade Representative, charging Brazil with lax anti-corruption enforcement and unfair tariffs of its own, among other things.

The U.S. has had a goods trade surplus with Brazil for years.

U.S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer

said that he and President Donald Trump had “constructive” meetings with Lula and other Brazilian ofﬁcials. But he said that “we continue to have substantial differences in resolving the issues identiﬁed in this investigation.”

Lula on Tuesday cited other reasons for the punishing tariff proposal. For the ﬁrst time he named an American ofﬁcial as a hurdle to his relations with Trump and once again he threatened to retaliate.

“I spoke to President Trump for three hours, and that Marco Rubio guy, the head of the State Department, he is anti-Latin American,” Lula said. “He is a deadly enemy of Cuba, a deadly enemy of many Latin American countries. I already told Trump that he does not like Brazil.”

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond a request for comment from The Associated Press on Tuesday Brazil’s government said in a statement that its dialogue with American counterparts, which includes “personal involvement of Presidents Lula and Trump,” is being ”sabotaged by merely electoral and family

matters” of the Bolsonaros. It added that it hopes “the recommendations do not become effective tariffs.”

“But we stress we will adopt every measure that is capable of reducing the damage that might be caused to the national economy, to the jobs and the income of Brazilians,” the country’s government said.

Last year, Trump had slapped Brazil with a 50% tariff mainly to protest its prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro for trying to overturn his electoral defeat in 2022. His relationship with Lula seemed to have improved early May, when the Brazilian visited the White House. But last week, the Trump administration designated two Brazilian gangs as terrorist organizations, after Sen. Bolsonaro’s visit. Lula opposes the designation, which analysts say could bolster his political rival.

Greer’s ofﬁce has scheduled a public hearing July 6 on the proposed tariffs.

Trade lawyer Ryan Majerus, a partner at King & Spalding, noted said that the administration’s plan excludes more than half of U.S. imports from Brazil, including aircraft and key minerals.

New York sues over deal to end offshore wind project

BY JENNIFER MCDERMOTT Associated Press

New York’s attorney general sued the Trump administration Tuesday over one of its deals to end an offshore wind project. Under a deal made public in March, French company TotalEnergies is getting $1 billion essentially a refund of its leases for offshore wind projects off New York and North Carolina — if it invests the money in fossil fuel projects instead.

State attorneys general from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont joined New York in challenging the cancellation of the lease off New York, the larger of

the two projects and the bulk of the payout. They say it will harm their states’ economies, energy grids and climate goals.

“This administration cooked up a sham deal to pay a foreign energy company hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to abandon offshore wind and invest in oil and gas instead,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. “We are ﬁghting back to stop this illegal agreement that threatens to erase over a thousand union jobs and cheat millions of New Yorkers out of clean, affordable energy.”

New York Gov Kathy Hochul said she and James will continue to aggressively ﬁght back against President Donald Trump’s “overt and never-ending hostility toward

offshore wind.” Trump, who often talks about his hatred of wind power, has said his goal is to not let any “windmills” be built. The complaint filed in District Court for the District of Columbia names administration officials, including Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, as defendants, and argues that they canceled the lease without following proper procedures. The states are asking a federal judge to vacate the lease cancellation and settlement agreement with TotalEnergies’ subsidiary Attentive Energy Separately, a coalition of renewable energy groups filed a complaint in District Court in Oregon on Sunday over Pentagon officials not completing national security reviews for new onshore wind farms on private lands. They say this inaction has brought a total halt to all wind project development. The Pentagon has said its siting clearinghouse is actively evaluating land-based wind energy projects and it’s a complex, time-consuming process. In response to the lawsuit, the Interior Department said Tuesday the only thing blatantly unlawful was the process by which these leases were negotiated and imposed under the Biden administration, funneling taxpayer dollars into unreliable, unaffordable energy projects. A spokesperson said the lease buybacks were voluntary agreements that no one was forced to sign, which were reviewed and approved by the Department of Justice

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A farm employee processes coffee berries at Boa Esperanca farm in Braganca Paulista, Brazil, in August.

Courthears argumentson electionsexecutive order

Plaintiffs sayvoter list, mail-inballotlimitations unconstitutional

BY MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press

BOSTON Afederal judge on Tuesday heard from votingrights groups and acoalition of two dozen states that want the courts to halt President Donald Trump’sexecutive order seeking to create afederal voter list andlimit whocan receive amail ballot.

The plaintiffs argued in two lawsuits that Trump’sorder should be foundunconstitutionalbecausethe states and Congress, not thepresident,havethe powertoset election rules.They also told the court that the move imposes acostly burden on state election ofﬁcials tocomply and would spread fear about the possibility of prosecution

“This is going to be asea change in the way that some states administer their ballots,” said Michael Cohen, who was part of ateam representing California, adding that “itwillbedifﬁculttooverstate the disruption that this will cause.” Trump’sexecutiveorder,the second one aimed at elections during his second term, comes as he continues to raise the specter of widespread voting by noncitizens as a reason to change electionrules. But states already have detailed processes aimed at keeping their voter rolls accurate, and voting by noncitizens has been shown tobe rare. It also is afelony that can be punishable by deportation.

His latest order is being challenged through multiple lawsuits, including two ﬁled in U.S. District Court in Boston.

The American Civil Liberties Union, whichrepresented the League of Women Voters in one of the two Boston cases, has called the order “a dangerous attempt to disenfranchise eligible voters nationwide.” The group said the order transforms “the U.S. Postal Service from aneutral mailcarrier to an arbiter of who maycast

aballot bymail.”

“Thiscase challengesanextraordinary and abusive assertion of executivepower over the administration of federal elections,” the organization said in its complaint.

Thehearing comes less than aweek after anotherjudge declined to halt the order.U.S.District Judge Carl Nichols, aTrump appointeein Washington, agreed with the Trump administration’s contention that it was tooearly to blockthe order because it hasyet to be implemented.

Theadministration, in itsmotions to dismissthe lawsuits,argued that the plaintiffs lack standing to bring their claims. They also argued themotions are premature and that plaintiffs lack the legal basis to bring their AdministrativeProcedure Act claim, which governs how federal agencies develop andissue regulations.

Stephen Pezzi, alawyer forthe Trump administration, said the harmsthe plaintiffs referenced were subjective, since much can change with the voting list before it is ﬁnalized.Healsosaidnoone would be prosecuted forviolating theexecutive order Missouri Solicitor General Lou Capozzi, speaking for the states

supporting thelist, argued it was too early to say howhis state might use thelist, but that it was “unlikely” anyvoter would be removed this year fromthe voter rollsbecause of it.

“Weare not exactly sure how we would use it,” Capozzi said, adding that “we don’twant this process to be strangled in thecrib, so to speak.”

U.S.DistrictJudge Indira Talwani took the requests for motionstohalt the order,along with motions to dismiss the cases under advisement.

During oral arguments, Talwani expressedconcerns aboutwhether the federal system envisioned under the executive order could be ready for theupcoming midterm elections and about therisks posed to election workers who rely on a statelist that differs from thefederal one. She also raised doubts about the reliabilityofa federal list —noting, for example, women whochangedtheir names after getting marriedorsomeone who has moved from state to state might be missed.

“Isn’tthere areasonable fear andconcern on behalf of voters thattheywillbeprecluded?”Talwani asked.

BY PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press

NEW YORK Mole people? Crocodile catchers? Mariobrothers? Aseries of bizarresightings of people popping in and out of New York City’s vast subterranean sewer system has the city wondering whatexactly is going on, with police now probing the undergroundmystery Security cameras have recorded at least threenighttime instances where groups of people entered or exited sewer tunnels via maintenance holes on streets in Brooklyn and Queens.

In onevideo,taken earlyFriday morning in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, agroup of roughlyseven people were recorded popping outofamaintenance hole in the middle of an intersection,infullviewofpassing cars.

Somewore headlamps and carried what appeared to be shovels and other tools. One narrowly missed getting runoverbya vehicle as they pulled themselves out of the ground.

In another video, agroup of about seven people could be seen emerging from amaintenance hole around 2a.m. on aquiet street in Brooklyn’sGravesend neighborhood. They madetheir way to acouple of parked cars andpulled out fresh clothes to change into. Police say the group entered the sewers about 11 p.m., meaning they could have been undergroundfor three hours.

On May 5, three people dressed in waterproof hip waders and otherprotectivegearpried open amaintenance hole cover and descendedintothe sewer on astreet in Queens. The last person pulled the cover shut as approaching cars slowed to astop.

Aki Jakupovic, the owner of an auto detailingshop, said his shop’ssurveillance cameras recordedthatgroup of sewerspelunkers. He said he couldn’tventure aguess as to what the people did below ground butworried they were “up to no good.”

The city Department of Environmental Protection saidit inspected the sewers at both Brooklyn locations andveriﬁed thesewer infrastructure wasn’t damaged. The incident in Queens is still underinvestigation, the agency said.

Rob Wolejsza, the department’s spokesperson, stressed that entering the sewers is not only illegal but “extremely dangerous.”

“Sewerscan containnumerous hazards, including noxious and potentially deadly gases, unstable surfaces, ﬂooding risks, and conﬁned spaces,” Wolejsza said in a statement. “For these reasons, membersofthe public should neverenter apipe, drain, catch basin, manhole, or outfall.”

Last month, awoman fell into an openmaintenance hole on a busy street in midtown Manhattan and died. Utility ofﬁcials said the hole cover had been dislodged by atruck.

Police, meanwhile, said they don’tbelieve there’sany threat to public safety after conducting athoroughsweep of theareas There have been no reports of injuries and no arrests, and the investigationisongoing,the department said.

On Tuesday,atthe busy intersection in Williamsburg where the secondgroup was spotted, resident AnthonyPurdie said he isn’tconvinced it was simple curiosity thatdrew the group to explore the sewers in the cover of night.

“They look like they werelooking forsomething important, like money,orfor doing sometype of hurting,”hesaid. “Ain’tnofun andgames.I mean, seven grown adults goingdownthere?Got to be something, man.”

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Department of Elections workers sortmail-in ballots forthe California primaryelection at City Hall on TuesdayinSan Francisco.

NewYorkDemocrats take firststeps toward 2028 redistrictingplan

BY ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press

New York Democrats are wading into the national redistricting wars —just don’t expect avictory before thisyear’smidterm elections.

Democrats in the state Legislature aretaking theﬁrststeps toward aplan to give themselves more control over redistricting, introducing aproposal Monday that could open the door to anew set of aggressively gerrymanderedcongressional lines for the 2028 elections.

The measure came as Democrats in New York vowed to counter Republican redistrictingefforts elsewhere but were barred from redrawing the state’smap without aconstitutional amendment,whichrequires twolegislative approvals overtwo years before it can go to voters as aballot referendum.

Democrats are insteadmoving forward with aproposalto change the state constitution’s redistricting rules,potentially allowing themselves to more easily draw new districts while also removing aban on lines that favor political parties.

Thoughitwouldn’thelp Democrats pick up anyseats in this year’smidterms, the amendment could prove potent in theyears to come after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted akey provision of the Voting Rights Act, kicking off anew,untamed front in the nation’sredistricting battles.

Elsewhere,Maryland’s Democratic-led statehouse could consider aconstitutionalamendment this summer,paving the way for congressional redistricting ahead of the 2028 elections. In Georgia, Republicanlawmakers areexpected to revise congressional and state legislative districts in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Mississippi’sRepublican governor also has said he expects lawmakers to redraw districts for the U.S. House, state legislature

and stateSupreme Court by 2027.

The redistricting ﬂurry began after President Donald Trump urged Republicans to use whatever tools at their disposal to craft linesthat could help the GOP hold on to its narrow House majority in November’s midterm elections. Democrats moved to counter with their own efforts in differentstates,but were at timeshamstrung by rulesmeant to prevent partisan gerrymandering.

In New York, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul said her state’s proposal“will give NewYorkers the power to ﬁght back against attemptsbyDonald Trumpand his allies to rig ourelections.”

“AsRepublicansacross the country redraw maps to shield themselves from accountability, it’smoreimportant than ever that New Yorkers have avoice in the process,”she said.

The proposed amendment leaves the state’sbipartisan independentredistricting commission in placebut places tighter deadlines on its redistricting plans. It also allows maps to be passed by asimple majority in thelegislature.

The proposal is expected to pass this week, but it will need another legislativeapproval next year before it can go to votersin 2027. If passed by voters, Democrats could begin tweaking districts for the 2028 elections.

Republicans in New York have accused Democratsofmoving to corrupt thestate’s redistricting process.

“New York Democrats, who proclaim to wanttoprotect democracy,theyonlyprotectit when it’sconvenient, when it suits their purpose, when it helps them gainpower,”saidU.S. Rep. Mike Lawler,a Republican who represents apurple district in New York’s Hudson Valley

“They don’tcare one iota about ourelections, they don’tcare one iota about the integrity of our electionswhenitdoesn’tserve their purpose,” he said.

Celine Dion, left,and Peabo Bryson perform the song ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that wonthem the Grammy for Best PopVocal Performance by a Group or Duo, at the

BY MARIA SHERMAN AP music writer

NEW YORK Peabo Bryson, the two-time GrammyAward-winning R&B singer bestknown as the voice behindthe Oscar-winning Disney ﬁlm duets “Beauty and the Beast” with Celine Dion and “A Whole New World” with Regina Belle from “Aladdin,” hasdied He was 75. His family said in astatement that Brysondied Tuesday evening, days after having astroke.

“While our heartsare broken, we ﬁndcomfort in knowing how deeply Peabo wasloved and how many lives were touched by his voice and his generous spirit,” the family’sstatement said. “His legacy andmusic will live on for generations to come.”

Internationally celebrated for his Disney classics, Bryson also built acareer over ﬁve decades as oneofR&B’s premierballadeers, recording hits including “Feel the Fire,” “I’m So Into You” and “Can YouStop theRain.”

“For more than five decades,

Peabo’sextraordinary voice served as the soundtrack to some of life’smost cherished moments,” thefamily’sstatement said. “His music carried generations through joyful celebrations, great love stories and enduring moments of comfort and inspiration.”

Born and raised in South Carolina,the singer,songwriter and balladeerlaunchedhis career withthe group Moses Dillard and theTex-Town Display in the 1970s. Shortly afterward,Atlantalabel Bang Records signed him as asolo artist. He recorded forCapitol, Elektra andColumbia Records andbecameone of music’s most soughtafter duet partners. Aside from Belle and Dion, he also collaborated with artists including Roberta Flack andNatalie Cole. His duet with Flack, “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love,” became one of thedeﬁning love songsofthe 1980s, while “IfEver You’re in My ArmsAgain” helped expand his audiencebeyondR&B radio. He later scored No. 1R&B hits with “Show& Tell” and“Can YouStop theRain.”

Beyond music, Bryson appeared in stage productions including

“Raisin,” “The Wiz” and “Porgy and Bess.” In 2018, he returned with “Stand forLove,” his 21st studio album, produced by hitmaking duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Bryson had astroke in late May andwas placed undermedical care.

“At this time, the family requests privacy as they navigate this deeply personal moment together,” a statement from his representative read at thetime.“The thoughts, prayers and love of friends and fans are welcomed and deeply appreciated.”

In 2019, Bryson made afull recovery after having aheart attack Comedian and television host LoniLovesaidshe worked with Bryson on acruise ship last year and spoke with himfor hours on thedeck onenight after shenoticed him sitting alone.

“He shared incredible stories, spoke passionatelyabout his music, and had such adeep love for his craft,” she wroteina social media post Tuesday.“Iamsograteful to have had that special moment with him.”

Bryson’sfamilysaid memorial andcelebration-of-life arrangements will be announced at alater date.

NORD board announces interim CEO

Longtime staffer to lead department

BY JONI HESS Staff writer

The New Orleans Recreation and Development Commission has tapped a longtime staffer to lead the department temporarily after CEO Larry Barabino Jr announced his resignation last week. Chief Programming Ofﬁcer Natasha Robinson was named interim CEO at a board meeting Tuesday until commissioners ﬁnd a permanent leader for the city’s public recreation department. Robinson will take over once Barabino exits June 12 for a new role at the Housing Authority of New Orleans.

“I want to ﬁrst thank you for your time. As a commissioner, I know you have

Moreno convenes group to study S&WB

BY BEN MYERS Staff writer

Mayor Helena Moreno on Tues-

day took a step toward folding the Sewerage & Water Board into city government by setting up a new advisory group to study how that might happen.

Any such move would be filled with fiscal and legal complexities and won’t happen any time soon. More immediately, the group called the Public Utility Modernization Process Subgroup, or PUMPS is expected to recommend changes to the S&WB’s governance, along with policies related to the S&WB’s financial stability, accountability and operational performance.

The first recommendations are expected within the next two months, and they will likely examine how the 11-member utility board is structured, said Andrew Tuozzolo, special counsel to the mayor “There are some obvious sort of oversight governance issues that would be addressed,” Tuozzolo said.

Moreno’s executive order setting up the group follows the Legislature’s push to give the City Council broad authority over the utility

The group will include City Council President JP Morrell and District E council member Jason Hughes, who chairs the council’s Public Works Committee, or their designees, according to the executive order Tuozzolo said the rest of the committee members will be announced in a week or so. He would not say if it will include any S&WB representatives.

In a statement, S&WB Executive Director Randy Hayman said the agency had not been “formally notiﬁed of the executive order or received an invitation to participate,” adding that utility ofﬁcials would “welcome the opportunity to participate and contribute in a meaningful manner.”

The group’s focus will eventually shift to how the S&WB “may be transferred to, consolidated with, or become more fully integrated into the City of New Orleans,” according to the executive order Tuozzolo said these discussions will ramp up later this year and could involve any number of scenarios.

He said any changes to the board structure would require a city charter amendment, which requires voter approval.

“What we’ve said continuously is that we want to see the Sewerage & Water Board be more synchronized with city government,” he said. The S&WB is a standalone agency with a convoluted mix of state and local regulations. The Bureau of Governmental Research and others have said the current S&WB

served in all capacities from the Willie Hall Pa nt he r coach, as a facilitator and as CEO, and I think it’s given you unique institutional knowledge to know what it takes to properly run NORD,” said City Council

member and commissioner Freddie King. Robinson declined a request to comment Tuesday The 13-member board of commissioners voted to hire a third party recruitment ﬁrm to lead a national search for a permanent replacement. The NORD Foundation, a separate entity that raises money for the department, will select the ﬁrm. “I look forward to my new steps in life. I look forward

to this new chapter in life. However I still will be here. NORD is embedded in me,” Barabino said. Residents and community leaders have long held that NORD’s executive director position should be held by someone local who understands the unique needs of the city’s youth.

During the search to replace Barabino’s predecessor, Vic Richard III, residents called for leadership that boosted staff morale and made programming more accessible to different communities, such as homeless children or those living in neighborhoods that lack active playgrounds. And while the department has made strides in expanding its program offerings and facilities over the years, many criticisms remain. NORD manages over 160 passive parks, playgrounds, recreation centers

Praying for protection

ABOVE: Archbishop James Checchio delivers a blessing Tuesday during the second annual first responders ‘Blessing of the Fleet’ ceremony at the New Orleans Police Department’s Special Operations Division Complex. The event, hosted by the New Orleans Police & Justice Foundation, honored first responders and highlighted readiness ahead of the 2026 hurricane season. More than 35 emergency vehicles from multiple law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services and public safety agencies participated in the ceremony LEFT: Louisiana State Trooper Danny Berrincha

head in prayer.

Claims against Oshun captain dismissed

Builder says krewe failed to pay for floats

BY DOUG MacCASH Staff writer

Krewe of Oshun Captain Gian Durand isn’t personally responsible for $130,000 in debt that the krewe owes float builder Jack Rizzuto, a New Orleans judge decided last week though the krewe itself isn’t necessarily off the hook for the alleged missed payments. Last July, the owner of Rizzuto and Co. float builders filed a lawsuit against the Krewe of Oshun, claiming that the Carnival parading organization failed to make final payments on its 2025 parade and breached a contract to produce future parades On May 21, Civil District Court

Judge Kern Reese partially dismissed Rizzuto’s claims, absolving Durand of the allegation of unfair trade practices and responsibility for previously unpaid debts. Attorney Lauren Ashley, who represented Durand, had argued that since Rizzuto’s contract was in place before Durand became Oshun’s captain in the summer of 2025, her client wasn’t responsible. The dispute, Ashley argued, was between Rizzuto and the krewe. Still, Reese allowed Rizzuto and Co.’s lawyer — Rizzuto’s son, Jack Rizzuto Jr 45 extra days to assemble evidence that Durand had intentionally disrupted the existing contract between the krewe and ﬂoat builder

The ruling was the most recent episode in a struggle for control of the 30-year-old Mardi Gras

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The Krewe of Oshun parades in New Orleans on Feb 6. Last July, the owner of Rizzuto and Co. float builders filed a lawsuit against the krewe, claiming that the Carnival parading organization failed to make final payments on its 2025 parade and breached a contract to produce future parades.

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NORD,

JPSO: Man faces juvenile sex counts after probe

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

A 63-year-old man who was the subject of a narcotics investigation was arrested last week after Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives learned he was having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl, according to authorities.

Lathelton Jones was booked on counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile, sexual battery, video voyeurism and several drug

counts the Sheriff’s Ofﬁce said.

Narcotics detectives pulled Jones over on Severn Avenue near West Napoleon Avenue just after 5 p.m. Thursday as part of their investigation They found 10 grams of a drug that tested positive for fentanyl in the vehicle, an arrest report said Authorities then served a search warrant at Jones’ Division Street home in Metairie, where they recovered marijuana and a powder that also tested

positive for fentanyl, according to ofﬁcials.

Officials said Jones, a chef at a local steakhouse, admitted to cooking small amounts of cocaine after work to sell.

While at his residence, investigators said they encountered an 18-year-old woman who identiﬁed herself as Jones’ girlfriend. She told detectives she’d been in a relationship with Jones since she was 15, and the two began having sex when she was 16, according to authorities.

Louisiana’s felony carnal knowledge law makes it illegal for a person over 17 to have consensual sexual intercourse with a person who is older than 13 but younger than 17.

Sheriff’s Office investigators obtained a search warrant for Jones’ phone and found sexually explicit images of the victim taken while she was asleep. Jones later admitted taking the images without her knowledge, authorities said. Jones was additionally booked on counts of manu-

facturing fentanyl, possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute and possession of marijuana.

Jones appeared in Jefferson Parish Magistrate Court on Monday and Criminal Commissioner Paul Schneider set his bail at $250,000. Schneider also issued a protective order barring Jones from any contact with the victim in the case.

Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate. com.

Bill passes, gives teachers paid parental leave

Measure needs funding to take effect

BY ELYSE CARMOSINO Staff writer

Louisiana lawmakers passed a bill to give public school employees a mont and a half of fully paid pa rental leave, but educators won’t be able to take advan tage of the new beneﬁt this school year

The Senate voted 31-8 Sunday to approve Senate Bill 157, which requires school districts to give full and part-time employees six weeks of paid leave after they give birth, adopt or foster a child. Gov Jeff Landry signed the legislation on Tuesday

for a $170 million reduction in public school funding to pay for $2,000 stipends for teachers.

Louisiana has no statewide parental leave policy for teachers. Instead, it’s left up to individual districts, most of which don’t offer any paid time off for employees looking to start a family

But the new policy almost certainly won’t take effect this school year after lawmakers ended the legislative session without funding the bill, which requires the state to reimburse districts for the cost of hiring substitute teachers. Instead, its supporters will have to press for funding to cover the bill’s estimated $6 million annual cost when lawmakers reconvene next year

“We knew it was going to be tough this session, just given current economics and the funds that were available,” said Sen. Samuel Jenkins, D-Shreveport, the bill’s author Hopefully “there will be opportunities to shift some funding.”

Last month, economists lowered Louisiana’s revenue projections for next ﬁscal year by roughly $100 million, leading lawmakers to last-minute budget cuts. Landry on Tuesday called

The new measure ai ms to give public school workers the same beneﬁts as state employees, who have received fully paid parental leave since 2024. It would bring Louisiana in line with a growing number of states to offer the beneﬁt to teachers, particularly in the South. But to take effect, the Legislature needs to come up with money to reimburse school systems for the added costs.

D’Shay Oaks, president of the Louisiana Association of Educators, one of the state’s teachers unions, called the bill’s passage a “win.” But she warned that Louisiana, which has struggled with teacher shortages, may continue to see its number of educators drop if the law doesn’t take effect soon.

“If they don’t ﬁnd funding, there may be more educators who delay starting a family,” she said, “or they may have to leave the profession altogether.”

Most school districts let employees take up to three months of unpaid leave, which is provided by federal law but only after they’ve used all their sick days. In some instances, employees

East Baton Rouge Parish

other Louisiana teachers who lack paid

sick time after giving birth.

can request up to 30 days of extended medical leave at 65% pay but many educators cannot get by on partial income.

Supporters of Jenkins’ bill, including the state’s teachers unions and public health advocates, say it will improve retention rates and prevent teachers from forgoing paychecks when they have children.

But others were concerned about the expense to districts, with school board and superintendent groups saying it wasn’t feasible for school systems to shoulder the cost of paying teachers who are on leave, as well as their substitutes.

David Claxton, executive

director of the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents, said school districts only offer employees partially paid medical leave because they also cover the cost of teachers’ replacements.

“We couldn’t afford to pay 100% of their salary and cover substitutes,” he said.

To ease that burden, the bill created the Paid Parental Leave for Educators Fund, which aims to reimburse districts for the amount they pay for substitutes. Claxton said the state stepping in ﬁnancially made it easier for district leaders to get on board with the bill.

It remains to be seen

whether the Legislature will put money into the fund. After this year’s session wrapped up Monday, it’s unclear how long it could be until teachers see the beneﬁt take effect. Jenkins said he’s conﬁdent his colleagues will work with him next session, pointing out that paid parental leave aligns with many lawmakers’ family-centered values.

The new policy is “more than a beneﬁt you’re giving people an opportunity to bond with their family,” he said. “And like some of our neighboring states in the South, we’re trying to put resources behind our desire to see families grow.”

Police: Robbery was retaliation for drug deal scam

Man fatally shot by targets, authorities say

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

Several hours before Drevon Mixon was fatally shot while trying to rob drug dealers at gunpoint in a Grand Isle RV park, authorities say he and two other coconspirators sat around plotting the holdup.

Mixon and Wallace Ledet, 18, wanted payback for their friend, Jordan Morvant, 20, who had been tricked by the dealers, according to Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Ofﬁce Homicide Detective Ryan Vaught.

Morvant regularly bought drugs from the two dealers, and during a recent transaction, he’d gotten “very high,” according to Vaught.

“During that process, (the dealers) took the drugs back

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governance misaligns accountability for operations and funding The council approves water and sewer rates and must sign off on any changes to property taxes for drainage, while the governing board oversees operations.

from him and charged him again to sell him those same drugs that they took from him,” Vaught said. So on the night of April 21, Mixon, 19, and Ledet set out to settle the score, according to Vaught, who testiﬁed about his investigation Tuesday during a bail hearing in Jefferson Parish Magistrate Court.

Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Ledet, of Grand Isle, and booked him with manslaughter in Mixon’s death conspiracy to commit armed robbery and attempted armed robbery Morvant, of Thibodaux, was also arrested and booked with conspiracy to commit armed robbery Robbery plot

The shooting occurred just before 11:20 p.m. at an RV park in the 3100 block of La. 1, according to authorities. The dealers told investigators they routinely delivered drugs to Morvant at the RV

The mayor presides over the governing board and appoints a majority of its members, but board members serve in staggered terms and Moreno has complained that she can’t remove any existing members. The new law giving council oversight, which Moreno supported, also allows the S&WB governing board to elect its own president, instead of defaulting

park, Vaught said.

Ledet, Mixon and Morvant set up the robbery under the guise of a drug deal, Vaught said. Morvant provided Ledet with the dealers’ contact information.

Though they’d first planned to just snatch the drugs, Mixon asked for a gun, police said. Ledet offered up his Glock .380-caliber handgun, Vaught said At least three witnesses overheard the planning sessions, according to authorities.

Ledet reached out to the dealers on the social media service Snapchat and arranged to buy the drugs, police said.

Though they allege he took part in the planning, authorities say Morvant wasn’t present for the drug deal/ robbery He did not appear to have much faith in his coconspirators, Vaught told the court.

“Ledet said Mr Morvant replied that he would be sur-

to the mayor

“One of the long-term problems with the Sewerage & Water Board’s performance is that it’s been hard to identify who is truly responsible and in charge,” Tuozzolo said. “People are sick and tired of the ﬁnger pointing and want to see results.”

Relations between the S&WB and City Hall have been tense since Moreno

prised if they pulled off this move,” Vaught testiﬁed.

Self-defense

The two dealers drove to the RV park with a third person, according to authorities. Ledet approached the vehicle and asked to see the product, Vaught said. The dealers showed him the drugs and asked for the money

“At that time, Ledet steps to the side, and that’s when the decedent produced the gun from his waistband,” Vaught testiﬁed.

The armed dealer shot Mixon at least once in the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The dealers then drove out of the RV park and to a nearby business where they called 911, according to Vaught

The dealer who fired his gun was not arrested on any charges related to Mixon’s death. Mixon was the ﬁrst to pull a ﬁrearm, according to Vaught.

“The investigation re-

took office in January, especially since a series of water main ruptures caused four floods in Uptown neighborhoods. City and utility officials had been collaborating on a stormwater fee proposal to help fund the drainage system, but those talks fell apart after the water main crisis.

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and swimming pools, but resident complaints have ranged from inconsistent operating hours to failures in maintaining its facilities post-investment The department has also struggled to hire and retain adequate staff, NORD ofﬁcials have said.

“We need help at Stallings,” audience member Morgan Clevenger told commissioners. Clevenger said the pool at Stallings Gentilly is “leaking” and the basketball court needs to be resurfaced. “We need the ﬁeld redone. The building is full of termites,” she added. Barabino announced his resignation last week after a decadeslong history of employment at the department that included two stints as CEO. He was selected as CEO under former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin in 2006 and led the department through a critical juncture of rebuilding playgrounds devastated by Hurricane Katrina. He left after three years for other job opportunities and returned during former Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s ﬁrst term.

Barabino will start at HANO on June 15 as senior director of community and property operations for the city’s public housing authority, according to Executive Director Marjorianna Willman.

Email Joni Hess at joni. hess@theadvocate.com.

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parading group. Rizzuto, who had produced the Oshun parade for years, holds that the krewe was floundering financially at the start of the 2025 season, but he allowed the parade to proceed in hopes of being paid later

Rizzuto is the captain of both the Mid-City and Pygmalion parades. He sought to install himself as captain of Oshun in what he said was an attempt to return the organization to solvency and recoup the money he claims to be owed.

vealed that this was self-defense,” he said.

Grand Isle police were the ﬁrst to respond to the scene Ledet stashed the gun Mixon used in a nearby trailer, police said. He initially told ofﬁcers that someone in a car pulled up and opened fire, according to Vaught. Ledet later admitted to the planned robbery authorities said.

Jefferson Parish Criminal Commissioner Paul Schneider ruled Tuesday that there was probable cause to continue holding Ledet and Morvant as charged. He also denied motions to reduce their bail.

Both men were being held Tuesday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna. Bail for Ledet was set at $900,000 while Morvant was being held on a $250,000 bail.

Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate. com.

ture priorities, not just drainage. The administration wants an S&WB consultant to work on a parcel fee, but the S&WB board refused to take up a vote to allow for that. Tuozzolo said the administration will renew its request at the next S&WB board meeting on June 17.

Email Ben Myers at bmyers@theadvocate.com.

Instead, Durand, the owner of a home healthcare company and nonpracticing lawyer, claimed captainship of the krewe. In 2025, Durand reigned as the ﬁrst Black queen of the ALLA parade, but left that organization soon thereafter With Durand at the helm, Oshun rolled in 2026 with ﬂoats built by Rizzuto’s competitor, Kern Studios. Rizzuto Jr claimed in court that Durand may not have been named on the existing contracts between his father and the krewe, but when she became captain, she began directing the krewe and is responsible for the dispute that followed.

“Everybody else has to pay their bills,” Rizzuto Jr said as he left the courthouse, “but the Krewe of Oshun doesn’t think they have to.” He said the next court date before a judge has not yet been set. The Krewe of Oshun will present the ﬁrst parade in New Orleans’ ofﬁcial Mardi Gras season on Jan. 29 on the St. Charles Avenue route.

Email Doug MacCash at dmaccash@ theadvocate.com.

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teacher Erika Musgrove holds her son, Matthew, in 2025. Like

parental leave, Musgrove had to cobble together

Judgedelaysrelease of AscensionParish’ssecrecy deals

Nondisclosure agreements relate to industrial build-out

BY DAVID J. MITCHELL Staff writer

Ajudge ruled last week that nondisclosure agreements betweenAscension Parish, state officials and business leaders related to industrial projects can remainsecret while an earlier judgment ordering their release is appealed.

Less than two weeks ago, state District Judge Cody Martin ruledthatthe agreements and other records were public and should be released. The agreements relatetoanindustrial buildout proposed for thousands of acres in western Ascension Parish Rural Roots Louisianaand Louisiana Bucket Brigade, environmental groups which oppose the RiverPlex MegaPark planned near Modeste, sued for the documents in December after the parishdenied public records requests.

But Martin indicated last week he would delaythe release of those agreements and of additional records not subject to his original ruling so the parish government could appeal.

That expected appealto the Louisiana 1st Circuit CourtofAppeal, one attorney said, is believed to be the ﬁrst time an appellate court will test the legality of a2024 exceptiontothe state public records law that theparishisusing to keep the documents under wraps. That law keeps secret documents and meetings tied to economic development negotiations if aset of public noticeprocedures aretaken in advance of those meetings. The law is one of three exemptions

that the parishsays apply to the documents;Martin hadoriginallyrejected the argument that the exemptions applied.

Pamela Spees, anattorneyfor the plaintiffs,said thecontinuing delays occur as pre-constructionwork anddirtmoving have been underway since March in theModeste area.Heavy trucks, cranes, piles,backhoes and periodic losses of power have occurredfor the few hundred rural residents living in ahistoric Black communitywith its roots arising from antebellumslavery

“People are beingaffected by this, their lives

arebeing affected by this in very concrete, very real ways. They aredealing with this attempttobasically erase their communities andcan’tget arecord fromthe parish, can’t get apublic record out of the parish for anything,” Spees said after the hearing in Gonzales

An attorney forthe parish, Jean-Paul Robert, declined to comment after the hearing.

In additiontothe fight with parish government, the plaintiffs recentlywon aruling fromaseparate judge in adifferent case for accesstoeconomic development agreements,

letters, emails and other records related to the RiverPlex MegaPark from theAscension Economic DevelopmentCorporation,the parish’snonproﬁt business recruitment arm.

Spees, who is asenior staff attorneyfor the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the plaintiffs haven’treceived those records either TheRiverPlex MegaPark industrial complex is proposed for17,000 acres of farmland and woodsin westernAscension.

Hyundai Steel, CF Industries, Clean Hydrogen Works’ Ascension Clean

Energy complex and Linde have announced newplants forthe westbank park alongthe MississippiRiver. Entergy is proposing nearly $500 million in transmission upgrades to power the west bank operations,some of whichwillrely on carboncapture andsequestration to cutCO2 emissions ACE is alsoproposing its own large gas-ﬁred power plant.

Thechange is promising billions of dollars in investment andthousands of jobs fora high poverty corner of the state. Butthe projects will transform the rural region northofDonaldsonville,whichalreadyhas

elevated cancer risk from toxic air pollution. Homeowner buyoutsare being proposed

Lastweek’shearing saw theparish seek to have the stay alsoapply to asecond records request the plaintiffs made in late December. That secondrequest sought agreements and other documents between Hyundai Steel and theparish’sindustrial development board, including any property taxreduction deals, public bonding documents andlinesofcredit or grants.

Martin effectively sided with the parish on that issue for now, saying he believed it was appropriate forthe appellate court to rule before he takesfurtheraction in the case.

Theparish’scourt pleadings revealed some information about the negotiations between theparish and Hyundai Steel. Robert argued that the plaintiffs alsoweren’tentitled to the second setofrecords because they remain only drafts.

“Therehas been talk of doing business, however, none has been contracted to date,” he wroteFriday. In courtpapers, the Ascension Economic Development Corporation has maintained that it is aprivate corporation and that itsrecords are private, except where at least$10,000 in public money has been spent.

The corporation’sattorneys addedthatithasn’t spent any public dollars on theindustrial park, though AEDC hasbeen working on it formore than adecade, and so has no records responsive to the plaintiffs’ requests. In audits,AEDC saysitis 100% funded through government dollars.

DavidJ.Mitchellcan be reached at dmitchell@ theadvocate.com.

STAFF FILEPHOTO By CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT

Twocabins on the Mulberry Grove Plantation property were recently torndownahead of proposed industrial development in the rural area. Rural Roots Louisiana and Louisiana Bucket Brigade, environmental groups that oppose the RiverPlex MegaPark planned near Modeste, sued for the release of agreements related to an industrial build-out proposed for thousandsofacresinwesternAscension Parish.

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Anderson,ThomasJames Thomas JamesAnder‐sonpassedawaypeace‐fully on Saturday,May 30, 2026 at theage of 91. Tom wasborninAbita Springs, LA on April29, 1935 to Ed‐ward A. “Bud”Anderson andLillieKingAnderson Tisdale. Tomissurvivedby hisson,ThomasJ.Ander‐sona/k/a GerardoLaRocca (Leticia); hisbrother,Steve H. Anderson;sister-in-law, ShirleyDianne SharpAn‐derson;nieces, Teresa Holden (Kenny), Virginia Anderson andShelley An‐derson;nephews,Ethan (Debbie) andAlton Ander‐son. Tomisalsosurvived by many great-nieces and great-nephews. Tomwas preceded in deathbyhis father,mother, andstepfa‐ther,Maurice Tisdale; his wife,Cloie Willis Anderson; hisbrother,EdwardJohn Anderson;and sister-inlaw, Mary Penton Ander‐son. Aproud resident of AbitaSprings,LA, Tom worked forPrestressed Concrete in Mandeville,LA forover20years.Hethen worked in themaintenance department of Southeast LouisianaHospitaland re‐tiredfromthere after 20 plus years. Tomloved fish‐ingand spending time with hisfamilyand friends. Tom will be deeply missedby allwho knew andloved him. In lieu of flowers please consider memorial contributionsinmemoryof TomtoShepherd’sCare Ministries.Relatives and friendsare invitedtoat‐tend thefuneral serviceat Shepherd’s Care Ministries, 20115 Louisiana1081 (Stafford Road), Covington, LA 70435 on Friday,June 5, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. with visi‐tation beginningat10:00 a.m. until servicetime. In‐termentwilltakeplace fol‐lowing theservice at PinecrestMemorialGar‐dens,2280 West 21st Av‐enue,Covington,LA70433. E.J. Fielding FuneralHome hasbeen entrustedwith funeralarrangements. Please sign theguestbook at www.ejfieldingfh.com

(Justin),RachelSharp Wil‐son(David),Matthew Sharp, OnealLegendre (Tiffany),Michael Legendre (Kelsey),RyanBallay(Ash‐lin),RachelleBallay(Chris‐tian)and Joshua Ballay GreatGrandmother of Gabriel, Paige, Shaleigh, Ellis, Owen,Arthur,Hattie, Isabel,Kylan andAmari Sister of thelateRoyal Clause,Odell C. Bergeron andBonnieR.LeCompte Mollie is also survived by many nieces andnephews Mollie lovedmanythings: painting,cooking, garden‐ing, crafting,traveling,LSU sports,and spending time with hergrandchildren at Orange Beach, Alabama. HerSundaydinners broughtthe family to‐gether weekly fordecades As afaithfulCatholic, Mol‐liehad adevoted prayer life,withprayercards and rosaries alwaysnearby. Shewas aretreat captain forThe Cenacleretreat housefor over 35years Mollie livedher entire life in herbeloved Algiersand wasa proudAlgierine.She wasa lifelong parishioner of Holy Name of Mary Church and1950 graduate of Martin BehrmanHigh School.Her storiesand abilitytoconnect with people everywhere she went were herstrengths This abilitytoconnect with others carriedoverinto hercareer.Mollieworked hard.Fromworking in a bakery as achild,ina drug storeasa young teen,to becoming theHousing Di‐rector forThe NavalSup‐port Activity,she couldal‐ways do thejob well be‐causeshe couldeasilyre‐late to Commanders as well as plumbers.She will be sorely missedbymany. Mollie wasa longtime par‐ticipant in thePeoplePro‐gram,a member of the Westbank ArtGuild,the Sultanas,the Behrman High School Reunion Com‐mittee, andthe Federal HousingManagersAssoci‐ation. Thefamilywould like to thankOur Lady of Wisdom Care Center and NotreDameHospice for theircareinMollie’slast months.Thank youalsoto Sherry Williams forher yearsofcareinhome. In lieu of ﬂowers, donations maybemadetoHoly Name of Mary Catholic Church,Algiers,La. Family andfriends areinvited to attend theVisitationat Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church,500 Eliza Street,Algiers,Louisiana on Thursday,June 4, 2026, beginningat9AM until 11AM. AFuneralMasswill be held at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church on Thursday at 11AM. Inter‐ment will be in St.Mary Cemetery,Algiers, Louisiana. MotheFuneral Home is assistingthe fam‐ilyduringthisdifﬁcult time.The familyinvites youtoshare thoughts fond memories andcondo‐lences online at mothefu‐nerals.com

Bayard, Thomas Oliver

Thomas OliverBayard passedawayonThursday, May28, 2026, at theage of seventy-four after aprolongedbattle with cancer. Beloved husband to Donna PontiffBayardfor 49 years. Loving fathertoRoy Bayard (Fay) and adoring pops to Brooke Bayard. Sonofthe late Oliver and Delores Bayard and brother Paul Granberry (Debbie).Survived by his brothers, Timothy Bayard (Joan) and James Bayard (Pat). Tommywas an outstanding athlete playing Baseball, Basketball and FootballatBunny Friend playground in the ninth ward. His talent led himto Holy Cross High school whereheexcelledin Football and Wrestling. Football broughthim to

Utah for his college education. After college, Tommy enlisted in theUnited States Marine Corpsassigned to ParisIsland S.C. forhis bootcamp training Once he completedhis commitment to theUSMC he beganhis career at International Paint. Tommy's 47 years career with International started as aservicetechand through his hard work and commitment to excellence, rose to thepositionofVice President over new construction. Tommy's personality,unmatched ability to tell storiesand Cajun stylejokes(Cajun voice included)allowed him to take over ameeting, party or gathering withhis peers and clients. Whenitcame to business dealings, no one was better, tougher, or fairer according to the hundredsofclientrepresentatives he negotiated contractswith. He lovedto hunt,fish, and play golf. Hissecond passion was cooking his jambalaya, especially at dedicated events,for family,friends, clients and forthe guys at thehuntingcamp.The greatest gift he shared was hisabilitytobethe best husband, father, and grandfather.

"Semper Fi" -"Ooh-rah"

Relatives and friends are invited to attend services at LakeLawn MetairieFuneral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. NewOrleans, LA.On Saturday, June 6, 2026. Visitationwillbefrom 11:00 A.M. untilMass begins at 2:00 P.M. Internment willfollow in theAll-Saints Mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery

Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin, born in New Orleans on August 23, 1932, thedaughterofWilliam Bell Wisdomand Mary FreemanWisdom, and passionatelydedicatedtoNew Orleans, diedpeacefully at home on May 30, 2026. As an avid reader, storyteller, and scholar lateintoher life,Adelaide attended Louise S. McGeheeSchool and Hollins College,graduating from Newcomb College,Tulane University in 1954. She went on to attend Tulane Law School where she was amember of theTulane Law Review and graduated at thetop of herclass of 1956. Despitebeing theonly woman in her law school class, she was elected to theLaw Review because of her outstanding grades and her keen understanding of law. During this time she was also Queen of Carnival and Queen of TwelfthNight in 1953, and she was theoldest living queen of each at thetime of her death and the longest living Queen of Carnival in the history of theRex Organization

After being admittedto theLouisianaBar association in 1956, Adelaide became an attorneyat Wisdom, Stone,Pigman and Benjamin, where she met her husband Edward B. BenjaminJr.,thusbeginning alifelong bondwith him throughout their55 year marriageuntil his death in 2012.

Enthusiastic aboutmusic and education, Adelaide was up fora challenge holding many noteworthypositions in the community,including17 pivotalyears on theNew Orleans Symphony board bringing it to solvency fromthe brink of bankrupt-

cy, 35 years on theboard of Louise S. McGehee School, nine years on the LoyolaUniversity Board, where she leda million capital campaignand receivedanhonorary degree in 2008, as afounding memberofthe National WorldWar II Museum board. Sheserved on two influential foundation boards:The RosaMary Foundationand The Mary FreemanWisdom. In addition to being well known and highly regarded for her advocacy and leadership, she was adedicated member of Trinity Episcopal Church and received many honors and awardsduring her lifetime. While Adelaide was philanthropically-minded and cared deeply about New Orleans, her workasmother to her four children was her priority.

Adelaide Wisdom Benjaminissurvivedby her four children: Edward Wisdom Benjamin, (his wife, theformerHelaine Higgins, and their children Mary ElizabethBenjamin, EdwardWisdom Benjamin, Jr., Glen Higgins Benjamin, and Joan Caroline Benjaminand great-grandchildAdelaide Wisdom Benjamin); Mary Dabney Benjamin(her husband James Scott Williamson and theirchildrenHaley Benjamin Williamson and Amy Benjamin Williamson);Ann Leith BenjaminHill(her husband John Peter Hilland their childrenGarethGriffin Hill and OliverBenjaminHill); and Stuart Minor Benjamin (his wife Arti Kaur Rai and their childrenSophiaRai Benjamin and Anna Rai Benjamin), and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews.

The family wishes to expressits sincere appreciation and heartfeltgratitude to Maggie Feder, Adelaide's personal assistant forfour decades, and Adelaide's devoted group of caregivers, many of whom cared forEddie,too: Naomi Hunter, Louis Hunter, Sr William Hunter Linda Wilson,Sandra Landry, Larisha Hunter, and Keith Wilson.They all supported Adelaidefaithfully and were asourceof constant comfort and friendship.

Relatives and friends are invitedtoattend the Funeral Service at TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 1329 JacksonAve, NewOrleans, La. 70130 on Saturday, June 6that1:00PM. Visitation willbegin at 11:00 AM. Interment at Metairie Cemetery.Inlieuofflowers, please considera memorial contributionto TrinityEpiscopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, LA.70130, Louise S. McGeheeSchool, 2343 Prytania St., NewOrleans, LA 70130, theLouisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, 4176 CanalSt. Ste 100, New Orleans, LA.70119, Loyola University, 6363 St Charles Avenue,NOLA, 70118, or Metairie Park Country Day School 300 Park Road, Metairie,LA70005.

LyndelBirdBlappert passedawayonMay 29, 2026, at the age of 78. She wasbornonJuly3,1947, in NewOrleans,Louisiana. ShegraduatedfromMount Carmel High School in New Orleansand University of NewOrleans,where she earnedher Bachelor of ScienceinEngineering After college, she enjoyed along career as an electricaland mechanical engineer.Inher free time, she enjoyed reading and travelinginternationally- particularlycruisinginthe Caribbean andspending time in theU.S.Virgin Island, Saint Croix, with herhusband.

Sheissurvived by her sons, Troy Blappert andDr. BradleyBlappert; grandchildren, ChristopherI Blappert, Isabelle Blappert, Alex Blappert, Abigail Blappert, andHarrison Blappert;and brother, Bryant Bird.

Lyndelwas preceded in death by herhusbandof56 years, PhilipA.Blappert; andher parents,Lewis and HelenParmentelBird.

Relativesand friends are invited to attenda celebrationoflifeinthe event center of Lake Lawn MetairieFuneral Home 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd in NewOrleans,onSaturday, June 6, 2026, from 10 AM to 12 PM. Lyndelwillbelaid to rest in Lake LawnPark immediatelyafterwards.

To view andsignthe familyguestbook, please visit lakelawnmetairie.com

Dale Joseph Neves, age 66, peacefully enteredeter‐nalrestonWednesday May27, 2026. Born on March7,1960, in NewOr‐leans, LA,Daleisthe belovedson of thelateAn‐tonioand Muriel Fazande Neves. Devotedbrother of SonjaEvangelista,Antonio Neves, Jr., andJuliette Neves. In addition to his parents, Dale is also pre‐cededindeath by a brother, RicardoNeves, whomheloved dearly.Dale attended theOlafFinkCen‐

terfor Pre-Vocational Edu‐cation andwas adedi‐catedemployeefor many yearsatNationalFood Store. Laterheworkedat ARCofGreater NewOr‐leans. Aproud NewOrlean‐ian, Dale embraced thecul‐ture andtraditionsofhis city.Heloved music, danc‐ing, second linesand the MardiGrasIndiantradi‐tion.Hewas aproud sup‐porter of Victor Harris knownas“Spirit of theFi Yi Yi”and BigChief of the Mandingo Warriors,a Sev‐enth Ward tribe. He spent thelast4 yearsofhis life residing at RescareinNew Iberia,LAwhere he gained abonus family, many new friends, anda community that also loved, caredfor andsupported him. Dale wasa loyaland faithful member of Corpus Christi Catholic Church,where he wasa familiar andcher‐ishedpresenceamong fel‐lowparishioners. Known forhis gentle nature,warm smile andkindheart,He touchedthe livesofmany andwas lovedbyfamily, friendsand hischurch community.Thoughhewill be deeply missed, Dale’s memory will live on in the hearts of allwho were blessedtoknowhim.A Celebrationservice honor‐ingthe life andlegacyof thelateDaleJ.Neves will be held in theChapelof Charbonnet LabatGlapion FuneralHome, 1615 St Philip Street,New Orleans, LA 70116 on Friday,June 5, 2026 at 1p.m.Visitation12 noon in thechapel. Inter‐ment private. Please sign online guestbook at www charbonnetfuneralhome. com. CharbonnetLabat Glapion, Directors (504)581-4411

RichardFrancis Pitre, age82, died peacefully on May31, 2026, at home sur‐rounded by hisloved ones He wasprecededindeath by Sandra EdwardsPitre, hiswifeof52years,his daughter ConniePitre,and hisparents Ernest B. Pitre andMabel Roux Pitre. He leaves behind hischildren, Beth Prince (Johnny),Ricky Pitre(Ramona)and Elena Baye (Jeremy),and his grandchildrenEmree & HavenPanepintoand Jas‐mine &JasperPitre Richardwas born and raised in Westwego, LA., andgraduated from West JeffersonHighSchool.He served in theU.S.Air Force,

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where he wasstationed in Seoul, SouthKorea until 1968.Richard’s sister,Dale, introduced himtoher friend,Sandra, in Decem‐berof’68. Aftera success‐fulblinddate, they married in 1969. He retiredfrom Avondale Shipyard after a 40yearcareer,primarily as aweldinspector.Richard’s love formusic waspreva‐lent throughout hislife. He beganplaying hisguitar with localbands like “EddieP &the Deacons” andwithhis otherschool buddies.Theyplayedin andaround theWestwego area at sock-hops, parties andclubs.Hecontinued playingmusic with his friendsintohis 60’sand early70’s. Richardusedhis Godgiven talenttoserve in localchurchesbysinging andplaying musicmostof hisadult life starting with 'VoicesofPraise' along side WynoniaLazaroand EddieParrino.People wouldoften recognizehim at thestore or at arestau‐rant,and they knew who he was. They maynot have knownhis name,but they remembered hisfaceand knew hisvoice.Richard used to sing to hismother forher birthdays, andhe sang forhis grandchildren up until weeksbeforehis passing. He wasinducted into theWestbankMusi‐cians’ Hall of Fame in 2004 When he wasn’t playing musicorsinging,hewould likely be found in hiswork‐shop or in hisgarden. In hisretirement, hisloveof gardeningbecamea full time hobby. Hismission: trying to ﬁgure outa clever watering system forhis plants,sohecould supply hisfamilyand neighbors with tomatoes,peppers eggplant andokrafromhis harvest. Richardenjoyed tellingjokes andwatching cartoonswithhis grand‐kids andmakingthem laugh. He always hada dad joke to share…even if you’ve alreadyheard it.He will certainlybemissed. In lieu of ﬂowers, please con‐sidera donation in mem‐oryofRichard FrancisPitre to Samaritan'sPurse https://samaritanspurse. org/our-ministry/ memorial-giving/ Family andfriends areinvited to attend funeralservice in thechapelatMothe Fu‐neralHome, 7040 Lapalco Boulevard, Marrero, Louisiana, on Friday,June 5, 2026, at 1p.m., with visi‐tation from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Intermentwillfollow at Restlawn Cemetery in Avondale,Louisiana.Mothe FuneralHomehas been en‐trustedwithfuneral arrangements. Thefamily kindly invitesyou to share thoughts,fondest memo‐ries,and condolences on‐line at www.MotheFunera ls.com

Joe Park Poe, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies atTulane University, diedon Saturday, May23, 2026, at the ageof89. He was born on July 15, 1936, in Forrest City, Arkansas, and spent most of his childhoodin Little Rock.Predeceased byhis parents, Samuel E. Poe and EloiseThomas Poe, as well as by his daughterMarthaElizabeth Poe (Betsy), Joe is survived byhis sister Beth Poe Kissling, his daughterAmy E. Poe, Betsy'sfive children, the oldest of whom, JonathanBecnel, lives in New Orleans, and his wife of 45 years, Elizabeth Wilson Poe (Beth). After earning his A.B. fromColumbia College, his A.M. from Cornell University, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University, Joetaught for two yearsat UT Austinand for one at UC Berkeley. In early September 1965, he arrived in New Orleans "with Hurricane Betsy"(as he put it) to begin what proved to be adistinguished47-year career as afaculty memberinthe Classics Department at Tulane.Heretiredin2012.

As ascholar, Joewas recognizedinternationally amongClassicists for the breadth and originality of his work. He published important monographs and articles on Greekdrama, Latin elegiac poetry, the Aeneid, Senecan tragedy, and Roman topography Joe's teaching style was exemplaryofthe "old school." He always wore a coat and tie when he taught and nevercalleda student by their first name. He painstakingly explained ablative absolutes,

gerundsand gerundives, passiveperiphrastics, and futures less vivid as though such concepts really mattered, and to him they did. He was demanding butcompassionate,serious butfunny. He cultivated an atmosphere of mutual respect in the classroom, which made his studentswant to do their best.

WhenJoe married Beth on January 9, 1981, anew life beganfor both of them. The first thing they didwas to give themselvesasa wedding present atandem bicycle,which they used as their primary means of transportation for years, oftenpedaling from uptown NewOrleans to the French Quarter and beyond

Joeloved thetimesthat he and Bethspent together in Europe,especiallythe thirty consecutivesummers and twoacademic years that they livedin Göttingen, auniversity town in northern Germany, where he didsome of his best research, heard and spokeGerman around the clock, and madelasting friendships.

During their summers abroad,they regularlyset aside aweekortwo to make aroadtrip through southern France. With Joe driving and Bethnavigating,itisremarkablethat they reached any of their destinations. That said, their itinerary was flexible: they were simply on the lookout for thenearest town with aRomanesque church, avineyard, amodest hotelwithrestaurant, and apopulation of fewer than nine hundred.

Againand again, Joe facedadversity with grace. He was, arguably, theonly personwho, after Katrina honestly enjoyed living in a FEMA trailer for eighteen months with his wife and twocats. He acceptedwith equanimitythe irreversible physicaland cognitiveimpairmentscaused by the strokes he sufferedinthe spring of 2017. Perhaps, most challenging for him, he did not lose hopein 2020, during thePandemic, when forsix months he was in isolation and separatedfromBeth.

Until theveryend,Joe remained fulloflifeand joy,inlargemeasure because of thelovingcare he received fromthe nurses and CNAs at St.Anna's at Lambeth, where he was a resident for more than eight years. To everyone on thestaff there, past and present, please knowthat Joewas grateful for allyou didfor him. Thanks to you, his dignity was nevercompromised.

There will be amemorial servicefor Joe at St. Charles Ave. Presbyterian Church, 1545 State Street, on Wednesday,June 10, at 2:00 PM,withvisitation beforehand, from12:30 to 1:45 PM.Inlieuofflowers, please considermaking a donationtothe Lambeth HouseFoundation, Second HarvestFoodBank,ora charity of your choice

sippi to Williamand Rose Bell Gill on June 5, 1936. Shemarried RoyRobinoSr on July 10, 1952 in St BernardParish. AddieMae is preceded in deathbyher loving HusbandRoy Robino Sr andsisterLeila Gill AddieMae is survived by herdaughterBarbara Geraci spouse Ernest E. GeraciJr.,son RoyRobino JR, BrotherFrank Gill Sr., Sister GayGardner,Grand‐children,Great grandchil‐dren,and herferocious chihuahua,Lil Bit. Funeral services will be held 9-12 on Friday,June 5, 2026, at JacobSchoenand Son’sfu‐neralhome. Burial will fol‐lowatStBernard Memorial GardensCemetery. Arrangements arebyJacob Schoen andSon’s funeral home.The familyofAddie Maewishestoextendour sincerethankstoBrunette, Amy, Aimee, Cindy, Dar‐

Poe, Joe Park

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Reductionin Medicaidrolls deserves further investigation

Whether one believes that Louisiana having almost200,000 fewer people on its Medicaidrolls compared to ayearago is agood thingdepends largelyonone’sperspective.

It could mean that more people are ﬁnding their way into jobswithbetter beneﬁts, which would be good for them because statistically,people with good health insurance are more likelytotakea more active role in their care, which leadstobetteroutcomes. It would also be good for the state, becauseit saves money Gov.Jeff Landry,Louisiana Departmentof Health Secretary BruceGreenstein andtheir alliesare in thiscamp.

“Anecdotally, we’ve heard from employersthat they’re continuing to hire new employees who are nowreceiving health insurance,and we are not hearing of increased rates of uncompensated care occurring in Louisiana hospitals,” Greensteinsaid. The “uncompensated care” Greensteinrefersto wouldbenecessaryifmore people were,instead of getting private insurance, just droppinghealth insurance altogether. Thatleads to more people seeking care only when conditions become acute andtheyare more likely to have worse health outcomes.

It also becomes more expensive forpatients, their families and the state.

That’swhat some fear is happening inLouisiana The reduction, they note, includes 50,000children who are no longer eligiblefor Medicaid withinthe state thanks to new rules

“Even ashort-termloss of health care exposes that familytopotentiallyexpensive costs —let’s say from achild breaking an arm on theplayground —that could bankrupt them,” saidJoan Alker, aGeorgetown University healthresearcher Thesetwo narrativesunderlie the complexities of healthcare in America. Add in the factthatthe Medicaid rolls grewdramatically afterthen-Gov John Bel Edwards opted to expand thestate’s offering under the Affordable Care Act, often known as Obamacare, and the questions only deepen.

The full effects of changes made to Medicaid will probablynot be known foryears. But that doesn’tmean that the state should notbemaking every effort to learn what they are. Sen. Regina Barrow,D-Baton Rouge, hascalled for legislative hearings on the topic. Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Covington, hassaid that any hearings should be to “celebrate” the accomplishments.

We call for more robust data-gatheringtoﬁnd outhow our Medicaid population has faredover theprevious year.The relatively paltry numberof new nonfarm jobsinthe state over thesamespan seems to indicate acomplex picture. Unemployment has edged up marginally as well.

Given the jumbled nature of these numbers, we urge state health and legislative leaders to work to develop clear yardsticksof progress. Ahealthy and thriving Louisiana population should be the ultimate measure of success or failure

If the assertions by stateleaders are borne out, we will celebrate with them. If they’re not, however,we hope they will be willing notjust to admit that change is needed, but also to putideology aside and make it happen

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Democracydepends on thepublic’strust

The growing public anger and confusion surrounding Louisiana’sredistricting ﬁght should concern every citizen of this state,regardlessofpolitical party or ideology Recently,Louisianans have watched courts, legislators and thegovernor struggle over congressionalmaps, emergency authority and even the timing of elections after somecitizens had already begun participating in thevoting process.

While lawyers and political strategists debateprocedure, many ordinary citizens areleft asking amorebasic question: Can thepublic still maintain conﬁdence in the fairnessand stability of our democratic system?

That question deserves deeper moral reﬂection from all of Louisiana’scivic institutions, including itseditorial voices Editorial boards do morethan report events. At theirbest, they help communities think through notonly what is legal or politically possible, but also what is fair,responsible and healthy for democracy itself.

Overthe years, this newspaper’seditorial board has thoughtfully addressed taxes, constitutional amendments, public safety,higher education andgovernment reform. Those editorials often ask readers to consider the long-term consequences of decisions affecting Louisiana’sfuture.

Should not thatsamecivic seriousness apply when public trustinvoting, representation and citizenship itselfappears increasingly strained?

Formany African-Americans, the present controversy is notsimply about district lines or partisan advantage. It reflects alongstanding concern about whether their electoral voicewill remain stable, protected and fully respected within Louisiana’sdemocraticprocess. At moments like this, citizens benefit not only from legal analysis, but also from moralclarity.Anewspaper’sinstitutional voice carries itsgreatest authority when conscience is applied consistently during times that test public confidence in democracy itself DORISGRAYBROWN Baton Rouge

NewOrleans must addressaffordablehousing

New Orleanscontinues attracting visitorsfrom around the world because of its culture, history andunique neighborhoods.However,for many residents, thecityisbecoming increasingly difﬁcult to afford.Rising rent prices and housing costsare placing enormous pressure on working families,young professionals and longtime residents.

Many people who grew up in New Orleans now struggle to remaininthe communities they have called home for generations. As housing costs increase, some residentsare forced farther from jobs, schoolsand supportsystems simply to ﬁnd affordable living options. Affordable housing is not only apersonal issue. It affects the city’sworkforce, economy and long-term stability. Restaurants, hospitals,schools and local businesses all depend on workers who need safe and reasonably priced places to live. When housing becomes unaffordable, communities lose resi-

dentswho help keep the city functioning everyday City leadersshould continue prioritizing policies that encourage affordable housing development while protecting existing neighborhoods from displacement. Investments in housing assistance, responsible development and neighborhood stability could help ensure that New Orleans remains accessible to people from different income levels

Preserving thecharacter of New Orleans alsomeans preserving the people who make the city unique. Teachers, healthcareworkers, musicians, hospitalityemployees and working families should not feel pushed out by rising costs and limited housing options.

Astronger New Orleans requires a commitment to keeping the city livable for theresidents who call it homeyearround.

JENNIFER CHRIS NewOrleans

Reliable public transportation plays an essential role in daily lifefor manyNew Orleans residents. Workers, students, seniors and families all depend on buses and streetcars to reach jobs, schools, medical appointments andessentialservices However,residents frequently experience delays, inconsistent schedulesand limitedserviceoptions thatmakepublic transportationlessdependable thanitshould be.Better transit would improve mobility while reducing trafﬁc congestion and transportationcosts for many households.

Public transportationisespecially important for residents who cannotafford private vehiclesorwho rely on affordable transit to maintain employment andindependence. Reliable servicestrengthens economicopportunity andimprovesquality of life throughoutthe city New Orleansshould continue investing in transit improvements thatincreasereliability,safetyand accessibility Expanding routes, improving maintenanceand strengthening scheduling systems would directly benefit thousands of residents everyday Strong public transportation systems also support tourism andlocal businessesbymaking it easierfor visitors and residents to travelthroughout the city Transportationinfrastructure reflectsthe priorities of acommunity.IfNew Orleans wants to remain accessible and economically competitive, public transit must becomealarger part of long-term planning and investment discussions. Residents deserve atransit system that is dependable, efficient and capable of meeting the needs of agrowing and evolving city

CARLOS JOHN NewOrleans

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ThenextZulukinganeveryman

Youmay have heard of KingShaka kaSenzangakhona No?Maybe you’ve heard of Shaka Zulu, the man credited with the emergence of the Zulu Nationin the 19th century by bringing together rival groups to form apowerful empire in what today is the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. Shaka Zulu was aking, not apresident. He was so successful with the frontal assault, close combatand reserve militaryapproaches, demanding discipline and cutting weak links that there are Shaka Zulu business strategies and management trainings today There was no election. Like so many kings, Shaka Zulu became king by his royal bloodline. That’snot how things work with the Zulu SocialAid and Pleasure Club. There are men in Zulu who are legacy members, sons, nephews and relatives of some longtime members,some of whom were characters,kings or presidents. ButZulu is ademocratic, “everyman” organization.

Former U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond andJohn F. Kennedy High School band director Keith Thomas wanted to be Zulu King 2027.Asusual, there were campaigns, platforms, solicitations of endorsements and support. Zulu campaigns often require significant energy andthousands of dollars, including spendingonbillboards, flyers, phone banks, parties and picnics. It’saserious campaign for members who want to be king and those who want to be special characters.Elections include using several official Louisiana Secretary of State’sOffice voting machines. Thomas had acampaignslogan: #LoyaltyNotRoyalty.Richmondwent with “Let’sGeaux.”

Zulu elections are for members only, but the announcement of the election results for the king and other characters is apublic event. Longtime Zulu member DarrylRichardson, aNew Orleans EMS ﬁeld supervisor captain and chair of the group’s elections committee, announced club election results from the Zulu headquarters balcony early Sunday evening as acrowd of at least 1,000 partied, second-lined and awaited the results in adrizzle

One in-the-ﬁeld, worker bee king candidate. One nationally prominent, rainmaker candidate.Zulu members would have to make achoice.

Absentee, or votes cast during the Zulu

early voting period, were not counted until Sundayafternoon as in-person voting continued. Those results might have been an early indicator of what might happen: Richmond: 51. Thomas:91. That’sa40-vote difference. Election day voting yielded Thomas 259 votes and Richmond got 248 votes.

Totalvotes: Thomas:350. Richmond: 299. Adifference of 51 votes. It wasn’tthe closest Zuluking election.

King Zulu 2012 won by six votes. King Zulu 2019 won by ﬁve votes.

Thomas, a1988 John F. Kennedy High School graduate, was in the Southern University marching band andleft the accountingcareer he had worked toward for his passion, music. He’s been the band director at Kennedy and its predecessor school since 2011. He was assistant chair of the Zulu parade committeefrom 2010-18, and he’sbeen the parade committee chair since 2018. Richmond,a Zulu member since 2006, graduated from Benjamin FranklinHigh School in 1991 then went to MorehouseCollege, and graduated from Tulane UniversityLaw School. He’s had acareer in government, politics and public service, including a stint in the White House as an adviser to President Joe Biden. And he has atrack record for attracting attention —and raising money “Some people told me thatI was

crazy,” Thomas told me. They thought it would be impossible. But, as one Zulu membertold me,outsiders might be surprised by the result, but he wasn’t. “They don’tget us. Iamus. I’m amember.”

The last time Thomas ran for king, he cameinthird among ﬁve candidates. The way he looks at it,this is his time, and there’s acalendar blessing of proof.

Previously,Thomas was BigShot, one of the most colorful and memorable characters. He was elected on May 31, 2015. He paraded as BigShotonFeb. 9, 2016. He was elected Zulu King 2027 on May 31, 2026. He will parade as the Zulu king on Feb. 9, 2027.

Zulu elections areheld on the last Sunday of May,usually on Memorial Day weekend. Members who moved elsewhere after Hurricane Katrina or for other reasons often return tofellowship, socialize and vote in person. This year was different.The last Sunday cameafterMemorial Day weekend.

“I’ve got to give it to Keithfor all of his hard work,” Richmond told me.

Thomas and Richmond shook hands when the result was announced Sunday One of the things Ilove about Zulu is their hard, tough and fun campaigning thatspills outside of the membership withpicnics, parties and more, but winners and losers come together the next day for apost-election lunch as they moveforward. Together

Email Will Sutton at wsutton@ theadvocate.com. Find himon Instagram at @editorwillsutton.

Theautopsy: DidDemocrats really want to know?

PaulRivera, alittle-known former Clinton WhiteHouse aide andsenior adviser to thelosing 2004 JohnKerry presidential campaign, became famous recentlyasthe author of the Democratic National Committee’sdisastrous analysis —the “autopsy” —ofthe party’s even moredisastrous 2024 Kamala Harriscampaign.

Yes, as many of us havewondered, there actually may be somethinginthe water on the American campaign trail or in the White House.

It turns out it is aform of sodium thiopental, known to moviegoers and readers of crime novels as truth serum. The 20th century comedian Art Linkletter (1912-2010) was famous for his remarkthat “Kids say the darnedest things,” aphrase whose title became affixed to apopular CBS television show for eight years. Political scientistsand commentators may doubt itsveracity but there is sufficientevidence to support the merit of its corollary: “Presidential candidates andU.S.chief executives saythe truth,sometimesin the darnedest ways.” The current occupant of theWhite House is ateetotaler whose preferred beverage is Diet Coke —a libation that contains neither the popular preservative sodium benzoatethatisan ingredient in some other diet drinks nor,more significantly,the supposedly veracity-inducing sodium thiopental that has spurred scores of truth-serum fables.Inthe case of Donald Trump, truth serum seems to be administered by aplastic medicine dropper,and then only occasionally.

Trump’sgold-framed Presidential Walk of Fame doesn’tinclude medical screenings for sodium thiopental but if it did, there might be special gold frames for these ﬁgures: n Dwight D. Eisenhower. The 34th president was known for deliberately obfuscating his remarks, once telling press

secretary Jim Haggerty thatifasensitivequestion came up in anews conference, he would simply issue asleepinducing cloudofrhetoric thatwould confuse White House correspondents. Butwhen reporters asked him to name a time Richard Nixon, thenthe Republican presidential nominee to succeed the former general, inﬂuenced the president’s judgment, answer was: “If you give me a week, Imightthink of one.” n Nixon himself. When British journalistDavid Frost asked the former president in 1977 about someofthe Watergate episodes that led to his resignation as president, his answer was, “Well, when thepresident does it,that meansthat it is notillegal.”The statement seemed startling 48 years before the Supreme Court, in its ruling supporting presidentialimmunity from prosecution, largely afﬁrmed this particularNixon Doctrine.

n RonaldReagan. The onetime actor was especially comfortable in front of aradio microphone; he once was, after all, apersonality on aDes Moines radio station where, working off telegraph accounts, he recreated Chicago Cubs baseball games for ahuge Midwestern audience. As president he began acustomofSaturday radio broadcasts and, seven months after he told the nation that “we must and will engage the Soviets in adialogue intended to reduce the risk of conﬂict and to makethe world a safer place,” hisunscripted off-air aside revealed another aspect of his view of U.S.-Soviet relations by quipping, “My fellowAmericans, I’mpleased to tell you today thatI’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russiaforever.Webegin bombinginﬁve minutes.”

n Barack Obama. Not yet president, but heavily favored to succeed George

W. Bush, the Illinois senator provided a2008 campaign assessment of some of the Pennsylvania voters who were resisting his appeal —ananalysis that trailed him for his years in the White House: “It’snot surprising then theyget bitter,they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’tlike themoranti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as away to explain their frustrations.”

n Hillary Clinton. One of the reasons she didn’twin the White House was her remarks in aspeech at a2016 LGBTQ fundraiser in New York: “You know,to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’ssupporters into what Icall the basket of deplorables.” So clearly was thatClinton’sview,and so searing was the way she expressed it, thatsupporters of Trumpcame to create campaign placards thatdescribed themselves as “deplorables.”

Now we cometoTrump’sreaction last month when asked whether he might hurry to make peace with Iran as away to ease the economic distress thathas pushed average gasoline prices past the psychological red line of $4 agallon. “I don’tthink about Americans’ ﬁnancial situation,” he said.

The remark’spresence in this assortment of presidential truth bombs was afﬁrmed by Trump himself, in aconversationwith BretBaier of FoxNews, when he said, “That’sa perfect statement.I’d make it again.”

As Reagan once said in adifferent context, aimed at President JimmyCarter, there he goes again. Presidents say the darnedest things.

Email David Shribman at dshribman@post-gazette.com.

Widespread,instantcriticism of theautopsy hasfocused on three areas: what is in it,what is notinit andhow it wasprepared.Other than that, as they say —noproblem. Start withhow it wasprepared Perhapsthe mosttelling excerpt from theautopsy is thenote printed in redthat appears at thetop of thefirst andevery oneofthe report’s192 pages: “Disclaimer:This document reflectsthe views of theauthor, notthe DNC. The DNC wasnot providedwiththe underlying sourcing, interviews,orsupporting data formanyofthe assertionscontained hereinand thereforecannot independently verify theclaims presented.” Andthat’snot all. Other parts of theautopsy containother disclaimers. Under the heading “CONCLUSION” is thenote, “This section was notprovidedbythe author.” Underthe headline “NOTES FOR THEREADER”isthe note, “This section was notcompleted.” Andunder the heading “SOURCES” is thenote, “Sources, interviewmaterials, and other evidence notprovided.” At several pointsin thetextwhere there are charts involving spending andother numerical data is thenote, “Sourcing not provided, assume to be Federal Election Commission data.” In another part there is thenote, “No evidenceprovidedfor many claims in this section.” And in yetanother there wasthe note, “Several factualerrors foundwithin analysis.” Whatamess. These disclaimersrun through the entire document. Areader’sfirst impressionmight be to wonder how the DNC couldproduceanything so unprofessional.Asecond thought might be: Maybe theparty neverwanted to knowwhatwent wrong in 2024. The mishandled, misbegotten and, until Thursday,unreleased autopsy was theirway of claiming to have investigatedthe issue while also trying to make thestory disappear KenMartin, theDNC chairman who was elected in February 2025, when theparty was still reeling from its defeat, hasstruggled to do thejob.Atthe time Martinbecame chairman,many Democrats were in ahow-could-we-have-lost-to-this-guyagain? frame of mind.But did they really want to knowhow badlyPresident Joe Biden messed up the reelectionquestion —especially whenmost of them hadbeen fully on board?Did they really want to know just howbad acandidate Harris was? Martin’sactions suggest the answer was no Martingave theautopsy assignment “toafriend, Democraticconsultant Paul Rivera,” according to aCNN report. ButRivera didnot appear to treat theassignment as ahighpriority.He“volunteered to workonitpart-time,” CNN continued,and then “waitedseveral months to contact keyofficials withJoe Biden andKamalaHarris’ campaigns.” As faraswhat is in theautopsy,some partsare jaw-dropping in whatappears to be intentional cluelessness. Take thediscussion of theJune 27, 2024, debate between Bidenand former President Donald Trump. It wasthe turning point of thecampaign and, of course, acatastrophe forthe then-81year-old Biden, whosecognitive decline became impossible to conceal. Here is whatthe autopsy says about it:

“The debate obviously changed many things. The dial-testing during the debate demonstrated the weakness of the president’sperformance, and apost-debate survey wasscrapped. The analytics team measured voter reaction and reported seeing little change. The fundamental need to earn votes from the target audiences remained, and there wasnopositive movement toward the campaign. Post-debate, and about aweek before the candidate switch, there were internal discussions about how to prepare acampaign for the vice president.”

In other passages, the autopsy blamesBiden for not sufficiently praising, supporting andaffirming Harris. If Harris had any faults, the autopsy suggested, they were her loyalty and consistency. Because she wassoloyal, the report said, Harris failed to distance herself from Biden, or,asthe report says, “to find separation from the status quo.”

The autopsy should have been an opportunity to examine how the Democratic Party gotitself into such asituation in 2024. Instead, the document is unﬁnished, sloppy and lacking in curiosity about almost everything. There is areason DNC Chair Martin resisted releasing the autopsy for so long. Many assumed Martin was hiding an explosive document that would reveal his party’spolitical malpractice. But that’snot the reason. The reason is there is alot about 2024 that the Democratic Party’sleadership didn’twant to know.Releasing the incomplete and ill-considered autopsy would showthe world that the party nevermadeaseriouseffort to understandits failure.

Email Byron York at byork@ washingtonexaminer.com.

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PRIDE OF CHALMETTE

Everyone in town buzzing about Robinson, Knicks in NBA Finals

Mitchell Robinson was a man of few words that night eight years ago at the Sigur Civic Center in Chalmette.

Robinson, 20 years old at the time, had just heard his name called by the New York Knicks in the second round of the NBA draft.

The 7-foot Robinson may be tall, but his answers were short, just like they always had been whenever he got interviewed after one of his stellar performances playing for Chalmette High School.

When asked on draft night what he would bring to the Knicks, his answer was simple.

“Hopefully a ring,” he replied.

I remember my immediate thoughts.

“Of all the teams in the NBA, he’s going to New York City I don’t know if a kid coming from a city of 22,000 people is going to be able to make it there, especially having to deal with the frenzy of the New York media.”

Boy, was I wrong. Robinson, now the longest-tenured player on the Knicks roster, adjusted just ﬁne.

Fast forward to 2026 and Robinson is just four wins away from getting that ring he talked about back in 2018. Robinson and the Knicks play the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals in a series that begins Wednesday night.

Robinson is a big reason they are in the Finals for the ﬁrst time since 1999. He’s also

a big reason Butch Stockton’s phone won’t stop ringing. Stockton was Robinson’s high school basketball coach Some of the phone calls are interview requests from media members. Others are just folks from Chalmette wanting to talk about Robinson.

“It’s the biggest thing going on in Chalmette right now,” Stockton said. “Just excitement for Chalmette and St. Bernard Parish. Everybody is excited for Mitchell and everyone is pulling for the Knicks right now because they are seeing one of their own.”

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NBA Finals has feel of something new

BY TIM REYNOLDS AP basketball writer

SAN ANTONIO For a few hours

Tuesday, the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks held practices on a ﬂoor that had the NBA Finals logo painted at midcourt. They did interviews with the logo as a backdrop It might have seemed normal. It wasn’t

This stage — the NBA Finals — is new to just about everyone on the Spurs and Knicks rosters, meaning very few players on either side have any real idea of how the moment will seem Wednesday night when the 80th title series in league history gets underway in San Antonio. They have two big things in com-

mon: It’s going to be new, and it took them all forever to get here.

“Falling in love with basketball happened really early on in my life,” San Antonio star Victor Wembanyama said. “I mean, I have pictures of myself with a basketball at an age where I was not even old enough to have memories.”

More memories will be made over the next four to seven games.

The Spurs are seeking their sixth title and first since 2014; the Knicks are seeking their third title and ﬁrst since 1973.

Knicks guard Jalen Brunson — the MVP of the Eastern Conference ﬁnals — had nothing but the highest of praise to offer to Wembanyama, the MVP of the Western

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Portal ﬁts to keep an eye on

BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer

in which the Tigers missed the NCAA Tournament for the ﬁrst time since 2011?

Here are five names in the portal that LSU fans need to be aware of.

LHP Brody Trosclair

Trosclair had a dominant freshman campaign at Northwestern State this spring, posting a 1.89 ERA in 38 innings while striking out 55 batters. He was also named the Southland Conference Freshman of the Year and became a first-team All-Southland Conference selection. Since he entered the portal, there has been mutual interest between LSU and Trosclair, a Thibodaux native. Trosclair told The Advocate that he would visit LSU unofﬁcially on Tuesday, with an ofﬁcial visit coming later

The only question surrounding Trosclair is his health. The left-hander pitched only once after April 1 because of Tommy John surgery But Trosclair told The Advocate he plans to begin throwing in October and be ready to pitch before the start of next season.

LSU already has lost one lefthanded pitcher to the portal (DJ Primeaux) and could lose another to the draft in Santiago Garcia. Adding Trosclair would go a long way in bolstering that part of the roster RHP Luke Neiswonger

LSU has shown interest in Neiswonger, who told The Advocate that he expects to visit LSU in the near future.

Neiswonger’s numbers aren’t ﬂattering. As a freshman at Central Michigan, he posted a 5.34 ERA and allowed 34 hits in 32 innings. He also made only three appearances in conference play But LSU’s interest shouldn’t come as a surprise. Neiswonger generated a lot of swing and miss and kept his walk rate down, striking out more than 32% of the batters he faced and walking fewer than 7% of them.

His high ERA may have been a product of bad luck, as opponents had a .392 batting average on balls in play against him.

LSU likely will lose at least seven right-handed pitchers to the draft or transfer portal this summer Neiswonger would help ﬁll that gap.

OF Jake Souders

Souders has visits lined up with Tennessee and Mississippi State, but don’t be surprised

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NFL family helped bring World Cup to United States

Hunts share memories of their late father and soccer’s premier event

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New york Knicks center Mitchell Robinson dunks during Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers on May 25 in Cleveland. Robinson has played a key role off the bench this season as the Knicks reached the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999.

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The late Lamar Hunt, left, the sports tycoon whose family owns the Kansas City Chiefs, watches a World Cup match between Italy and Nigeria on July 5, 1994, in Foxborough, Mass.

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Russia-Ukraine clash set in Paris

Kostyuk,

Andreeva

to meet in women’s semifinals

BY SAMUEL PETREQUIN

AP sportswriter

PARIS Marta Kostyuk, the best player on clay this season and a vocal supporter of Ukraine amid the war with Russia, will play her ﬁrst major semiﬁnal at the French Open against a Russian.

Kostyuk won an intense allUkraine quarterﬁnal against Elina Svitolina 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 on Tuesday

That set up Kostyuk against Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva, who thumped Romanian veteran Sorana Cirstea 6-0, 6-3.

In men’s play, 20-year-old Jakub Mensik ended the run of Brazil’s Joao Fonseca with a 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory “It was one of my best performances so far,” Mensik said.

The 19-year-old Fonseca beat 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic in ﬁve sets in the third round and then eliminated two-time runner-up Casper Ruud in the fourth round.

Mensik collapsed to the clay with cramps upon edging Mariano Navone in a ﬁfth-set tiebreaker in the second round and also needed ﬁve sets to advance in the fourth round against Andrey Rublev For a place in Sunday’s final, Mensik will face second-seeded Alexander Zverev, the 2024 runner-up, who beat rising Spanish player Rafael Jodar 7-6 (3), 6-1, 6-3.

Kostyuk leads Andreeva 2-0 on the tour; the second win in the Madrid ﬁnal a month ago Kostyuk didn’t shake hands at the net, following protocol for Ukrainians with opponents from Russia and its ally Belarus since the war started four years ago.

“We had a very difﬁcult night again in Ukraine, especially in Kyiv, so many people dead,” Kostyuk said. “I want to give this match to Ukrainian people and to their resilience. Slava Ukraini! (Glory to Ukraine!)

Kostyuk of Ukraine reacts after winning a quarterfinal match

Elina Svitolina of Ukraine at the French Open in Paris on Tuesday

Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 18 civilians and wounding more than 100 others, authorities said Tuesday

“I texted my family if they were OK. This is pretty much all I can do,” Kostyuk said. “The biggest thing I can do is sit here and talk about it so more people can ﬁnd out about it so they don’t get used to this terrible life.”

Svitolina said friends in Ukraine told her about the attacks just

hours before the match.

“Just very sad that we all have to really put up with this heaviness and pain every single day, and scared moments not knowing what’s going to bring the next day,” Svitolina said.

She will leave Roland Garros to look after the daughter she has with French tennis player Gael Monﬁls, but will be cheering on Kostyuk.

“Hopefully she can get the title,” Svitolina said. “It’s going to be massive for Ukraine.” No. 7-seeded Svitolina got off to

a slow start but worked her way back, matching No. 15 Kostyuk’s power from the baseline. Kostyuk was better on the important points in the decider and improved her impressive 2026 record on clay to 17-0.

She’s the first Ukrainian woman to reach the semifinals at Roland Garros in the Open era since 1968. Svitolina has reached the semis at the other three Grand Slams but failed for the sixth time to win a French Open quarterfinal.

Andreeva will appear in her second French Open semifinal, two years after the ﬁrst. She was asked about the challenges of playing a Ukrainian in wartime.

“Well, for me it doesn’t matter who I play,” Andreeva said. “I really try to play against the ball that is coming at me. Usually it doesn’t matter to me who I’m playing against, so I’m trying to really focus on the game and on the game plan.”

Asked whether she found it frustrating to hear Russian opponents avoiding the issue, Kostyuk said she wished “there was some more clear stance on what’s going on.”

“Especially when your country is killing other people,” she added.

“I don’t know how you can sleep at night peacefully when you know that this is going on, and you have nothing to say about it.”

After a week of hot weather, rain arrived in Paris and play started and finished under the closed roof of Court Philippe-Chatrier Competing in the quarterfinals for the first time in 17 years, Cirstea struggled to find her rhythm against her 19-year-old rival.

The 36-year-old veteran, playing the ﬁnal season of her career, immediately dropped her serve. She didn’t hold serve or win a game until the ﬁrst game of the second set. Andreeva’s deep, accurate groundstrokes and charges to the net took a toll on 18th-seeded Cirstea, whose attempt to come back was shortlived.

“I felt like it was one of my best matches so far this tournament,” Andreeva said. “Super happy to be back in semis.”

Fever hope to move on from sideline spat

BY MICHAEL MAROT AP sportswriter

INDIANAPOLIS Two-time WNBA

All-Star Caitlin Clark and Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White told reporters Monday they had moved beyond what appeared to be a sideline spat. Apparently, they weren’t just speaking publicly about the incident. On Tuesday, Fever guard Sophie Cunningham revealed the team’s players and coaches also had a frank, “long” conversation intended to hash things out and get everyone back on the same page following back-to-back losses on the West Coast.

“We had a team meeting (Monday) a long meeting and so hopefully we’ve kind of turned the page,” Cunningham said “I think we were in there an hour and a half, almost two hours and we built back all the layers. I think everyone’s on a good page right now and ready to work. We’ll say it started (as a) coaches (meeting) and then ended up being players It was much needed, though.” Cunningham and All-Star guard Kelsey Mitchell did not divulge specifics about what was discussed, and White said the meeting didn’t go quite as long as Cunningham thought.

Clearly, though, everyone thought it was necessary and valuable after TV cameras caught the incident between Clark and White during Saturday night’s 100-84 loss to Portland — an expansion team Indiana beat by 17 points just 10 days earlier without Clark. White and Clark each downplayed the scene Monday, saying it was merely two competitors trying to ﬁgure out how to win a game, and White explained she was simply challenging her star player to perform at a higher level. Mitchell saw it the same way

“I think it’s a part of being a family,” she said “If you think everything is glitz and glamour, then you’re mistaken. I think hard times can make you or break you and, hopefully, it doesn’t break us, and I think losing is important because you ﬁnd out a lot about yourself, about where you need to be, where you’re missing the mark and I’m happy that’s happening now If there is frustration, I’d rather it be now than later.”

There is reason for concern.

Indiana opened the season considered a title contender after White helped the Fever get within one win of reaching the WNBA Finals despite enduring a series of debilitating injuries, including the loss of Clark.

Not much has gone right in this season’s ﬁrst month, though.

The Fever enter Thursday’s game against Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream with a 4-4 record, a half game out of the eighth and ﬁnal playoff spot, hoping to snap this two-game skid.

Clark hasn’t been her typical self, either While the former Iowa star and NCAA’s career scoring leader is averaging 20.1 points and 8.1 assists, she’s also shooting at 39.3% from the ﬁeld, 33.3% from 3-point range and has committed 4.6 turnovers per game. She has also been criticized about her defensive miscues.

But Clark isn’t alone on defense

While Indiana is scoring a leaguebest 91.8 points per game, it also is tied for the second-highest points allowed at 89.0.

What’s wrong?

“We have all the pieces we need (to win), but it’s knowing your role, owning your role and also just being tough,” Cunningham said.

“We’re just too soft right now, and that’s not what our identity is, so we need to get away from that.”

Cunningham also noted playing more types of defenses would help.

White believes varied defenses will come in time, but she first wanted the players building their conﬁdence by doing a few things well. And while White wants to see improvements, she doesn’t believe the struggles are related to effort.

“Often times when you see a ‘lack of effort,’ a lot of it is just indecision, right?” she said “It’s paralysis by analysis.”

Perhaps airing out those thoughts will be part of a longerterm solution to what they hope is a short-term problem. Cunningham and her teammates certainly hope that’s true as they begin the defense of last year’s Commissioner’s

Cup championship.

“No one wants to have these meetings, but everyone, every team has them,” Cunningham said “Everyone has trials, everyone has shortcomings and I’m just thankful ours is at the beginning of the season and not during September, October

“We didn’t even watch ﬁlm (from the Portland game), that tells you how bad it is because normally she (White) is watching every second of it. We wanted to ﬂush that one, everyone knew it was bad We all kind of watched it on our own and it’s just unacceptable. We’re too good to be playing like that.”

Hader was reinstated from the 60day injured list Tuesday by Houston after sitting out all season, giving the Astros bullpen a major boost. The left-hander had been out with left biceps tendinitis He made nine minor league rehabilitation appearances to prepare for his return.

Hader, who is in his third season with the Astros, had a 2.05 ERA with 28 saves in 48 games last season. He was named to his sixth AllStar game last season.

In other moves on Tuesday, the Astros recalled outfielder Zach Cole from Triple-A Sugar Land and placed inﬁelder Braden Shewmake on the 10-day injured list with a right adductor strain retroactive to Sunday

Momcilovic commits to Kentucky after leaving draft LEXINGTON, Ky. — Former Iowa State sharpshooter Milan Momcilovic has committed to Kentucky, giving coach Mark Pope one of the best players in the transfer portal Momcilovic announced his decision on Instagram on Monday, less than a week after pulling out of the NBA draft.

A 6-foot-8 forward, Momcilovic led the nation in 3-point shooting at 48.7% on 7.5 attempts per game last season and was ﬁfth nationally in 3-pointers made. He made at least ﬁve 3-pointers in a game 10 times in 2025-26, including eight in a loss to Arizona in the Big 12 Tournament. Momcilovic announced in April he planned to enter the transfer portal and test the NBA waters before pulling out just before the deadline.

Seahawks agree to 3-year extension with rusher Hall

SEATTLE Outside linebacker Derick Hall has agreed to a three-year contract extension with the Seahawks, a league source conﬁrmed to The Seattle Times on Tuesday morning, keeping a young player for the long haul at a position facing future uncertainty

The deal is reported to be worth up to a base of $42 million and could earn Hall as much as $46.9 million and keeps him with the Seahawks through the 2029 season. The contract includes a reported $21 million guaranteed Contract details were first reported by ESPN and The NFL Network. Hall is entering the ﬁnal season of his rookie contract and due to make $1.993 million in 2026 on a four-year deal paying him up to $9.115 million overall.

Falcons, receiver London agree to 4-year extension

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Falcons have agreed to a four-year, $141 million contract extension with Drake London, making him one of the NFL’s highest-paid wide receivers.

Spotrac.com reported the ﬁnancial details of London’s deal, which has not been disclosed by the Falcons. According to the website, London’s average salary through 2030 is $35.25 million, making him third among the league’s receivers behind Cincinnati’s Ja’Marr Chase ($42.25 million) and Seattle’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba ($42.15 million). London’s deal includes $100 million guaranteed and could be worth $150 million with incentives. He will earn about $16.8 million in 2026 on the ﬁfth-year option of his rookie contract.

Nishikori to conclude career at home at ’26 Japan Open

PARIS Former U.S. Open ﬁnalist Kei Nishikori will conclude his career at home when he plays in the Japan Open later this year The 36-year-old Nishikori has been given a wild card invitation by tournament organizers, the ATP Tour conﬁrmed

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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark warms up before a game against the Golden State Valkyries in San Francisco on Thursday.

Garrettis Rams’latestprize in decade of gutsymoves

BY GREG BEACHAM Associated Press

LOS ANGELES Forwelloveradecade now,general manager Les Snead and the Los Angeles Rams have consistently pulled off the aggressive, audaciousmoves that every NFL fan wishestheir team would make.

Their latest deal is among the biggest and the riskiest —and it’s totally their style.

Myles Garrett walked into the Rams’training complex in Woodland Hills on Tuesday after LA gave up budding star JaredVerse and three high draft pickstocompleteone of the NFL’s biggest trades in recent seasons.

“Toacquire aplayer like this, these things don’tcome up often ” coach Sean McVay said.

Yetthis bold deal for arguably the greatest pass rusher of this generation is only the latest in the line of blockbuster trades engineered by Snead. In thepast 10 years alone, he hasmaneuvered to get Jared Goff, Matthew Stafford, Jalen Ramsey,Von Miller, TrentMcDuffie, BrandinCooks and other veterans fortrade prices that would have been too steep for many front ofﬁces.

The Rams have spent adecade chasing rings with urgency but is actually rooted in an organizational conﬁdence that McVay’scoaching ability willmakeupfor the sacriﬁces necessary in draft capitaland veteran talent.

“You’re always threading that needle for sustainability,tryingto win consistently,” Snead said Tuesday.“But it’sa hardone to thread.”

McVay is all in on the Rams’ organizational urgency,since the coach is often the most aggressive voice in Snead’sear to get big deals done: “I’m not the most patient

WORLD CUP

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Without him, the U.S. may well have been watching the World Cup being played elsewherenext month rather than hosting it.

It was Lamar Hunt, after all, who helped professional soccer gain afootholdinthe

U.S. with his investment in the North American Soccer League. And when it folded in the 1980s, it was an undeterred Hunt who helped found MLS, whose very existence wasone of the requirements of FIFAtoallow his country to host the 1994 World Cup.

Lamar Hunt served as cochairman of the organizing committeefor matches in Dallas that year.Now,32 years later, Clark Huntis serving in the same capacity formatchesinKansasCity while Dan has taken on that role in Dallas.

Unlikethe last World Cup played in the U.S., though, four group-stage matches and two knockoutgames will be played at Arrowhead Stadium, thehomeofthe Chiefs, and abuilding Lamar Hunt long called his favorite place in the world.

“It’sgoingtobespecial,”

Clark Hunt said, “and Ithink it goes back to thinking about my dad alot. That’s what I’m going to do during those games, just think about how excited he would be to see the World Cup in Arrowhead Stadium.”

Learning to love soccer

To say soccer was fledgling in the U.S. in the 1950s would be an understatement. There were no professional leagues to speak of, and after losing two of three games at the World Cup in 1950, the Americans wouldgofour decades without qualifying at all. It took atrip across the Atlantic Ocean for Lamar Hunt to fall in love with the sport. His future wife, Norma Hunt, was attending University College Dublin as a Rotary scholar in the early 1960s, andthe son of oiltycoonH.L.Hunt had goneto visit her.They found themselves at aShamrock Rovers match,watchingfrom a standing-room-only terrace on acool night, and became engrossed in thethrobbing, fevered pitch of European football.

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Los Angeles Ramsdefensiveend Myles Garrett smiles during anews conferenceonTuesdayinWoodland Hills, Calif.

person,” McVaysaid with asmirk.

“Tobeabletoadd players like (Garrett) is so rare,” McVay said. “Wefeelreally fortunate that this feelsverysimilar to when we were fortunateenough to acquire aplayer likeMatthew Stafford. Things like this don’t presentthemselves, and we wanted to be aggressive.”

Theseopportunities might be rare, but the Ramshaveseized a whole lot more of them than other teams— and they werealready a top Super Bowl contender even before they landed Garrett.

Snead addressed Los Angeles’ primary weakness three months agobyacquiringMcDufﬁe,making him the NFL’s highest-paid cornerback and re-pairing him with free-agent signeeJaylenWatson, hislongtime Chiefsteammate.

But even witha defensiveline featuring four above-average players allstill on theirrookiecontracts, Snead and McVay wanted to improve.

Althoughboth Snead andMc-

“I think,” Clark Hunt said, “that may have been my dad’s ﬁrstprofessionalsoccer game.”

Theexperience stayed with Lamar Hunt, even as he returned to theU.S.and pouredhimself intoadifferent kind of football, helping to foundthe American Football League —which would soon merge with theNFL andthe DallasTexans, now the Chiefs.

Afew years later,Hunt returned to Europe to take in his first World Cup. It was 1966, and hewatched as host England beatWest Germany in ahistorical ﬁnal at Wembley Stadium for what remainsits only championship.

That year,agroup of entrepreneursthat included Hunt and Jack Kent Cooke established the United Soccer Association, which wouldlatermerge with the National Professional SoccerLeaguetocreate the North American Soccer League. For nearly two decades, theNASLwould push U.S. soccer forward, luring such starsasPele, Franz Beckenbauer and Carlos AlbertotoNorth America.

“Weknow from hisventures into professional football that he was not afraid of achallenge,” Clark Hunt said,“and he wasalways an optimist, too, and many of his ventures probably had long odds. But he had tremendous perseverance and tremendous workethic, and he hadavision andabelief for what he was doing.”

Success andfailure

The NASL grew quickly throughout the1970s —too quickly,asitturned out. Many newowners did not have the resources to withstand losses while their clubs weregettingoff the ground, and theybegan to fold, leading to several years ofcontraction

After the 1984season, with attendance waning and gamesnolonger televised, theleague collapsed

“My dad was alwaysgreat aboutnot sharinghis negative feelings, but I’msure he had them,”Clark Hunt said.“Iremember as ahigh schooland collegestudent being very upset about it, even thoughI didn’t have any real,you know, direct nexus to the team. ButI just knew how disappointing it was for him, and sadthat a sport Ihad come to love had really disappeared.

BY KYLE HIGHTOWER Associated Press

FOXBOROUGH,Mass. A.J. Brown gothis wish for afresh start when he was traded by the Philadelphia Eaglestothe NewEngland Patriots.

Less than 24 hourslater he was on the ﬁeld, wearing the jersey of the team he grew up rooting for and adding renewed optimismabout the future.

“I’mstill in awe. Still trying to adjust,” Brown said after participating in hisﬁrst offseason workout withNew England on Tuesday.“Walkingupthe hill with the uniform on, Iwas like, ‘Man, this is real.I’m here.’

He kept thingslightfor his ﬁrst day,doing alot of observing while participating in limited 11-on-11 snaps with quarterback Drake Maye and the offense. It didn’tdim the excitement for the coaching staff or his new teammates.

Vayclaim they were reluctant to part with Verse,the Rams ﬁnally agreed with the backing of owner Stan Kroenke, who has been fully supportive of his front ofﬁce’suncommon urgency Garrett was eager to join this franchise’slineage of superstar pass rushers stretching from the FearsomeFoursometoAaron

Donald. But he alsoagreed tothe trade because after nine seasons in Cleveland, he ﬁnally wanted to play for aconsistent contender

That’swhat theRams have been ever since McVay took over in 2017 —rackingupeight winning seasons, seven playoff berths, four NFC West titles,three conference title game appearances, two Super Bowl berths and one ring.

“It just came down to thetiming of everything,” Garrett said. “What does it look like tobeawinner now,and to have theopportunity to do thatimmediately? That was just too good of an opportunity to pass up.”

Lamar Hunt was nothing if notpersistent, and he viewed every failure as alearning opportunity.So, when soccer’s governing body,FIFA, told organizers forthe 1994 World Cup that one of its requirements to hostthe tournamentwas atop-tier domestic league, Hunt used what he had learned from the NASL in helping to establishMajor League Soccer

“You knewthatifLamar Hunt waspartofit,”said Thom Meredith,his righthand manfor many years, “it meantsomething. You hadRobert Kraft and all these other guys, but when it came down to it, youhad Lamar Hunt in theroom.”

Hunt not only helped bankroll the league but owned threeofits ﬁrst franchises; thefamily still owns FC Dallas,but divested itselfof clubs in Columbus and Kansas City. Over the years, the league has grown to 30 clubs across the U.S. and Canada, attracted stars such as David Beckham andLionel Messi,and laid the groundwork for robust youth soccer programs nationwide.

“My dad would be so pleased to seewhere MLS is today,” ClarkHunt said, “andhewould be so excited about where it’sgoing.”

WorldCup legacy

When the U.S. was awarded the World Cup along with Mexico and Canada in June 2018, organizers in Kansas City and executives with the Chiefs quickly wentto work.The city hadmissed outonhosting matches in 1994 after FIFAdetermined Arrowhead Stadium would be unable to fit the required pitch, and they weren’tgoing to let that happen twice. Over the course of several years,and at acost of nearly$20 million,seats were removed from the lower bowl of the NFL stadium and other modifications were madesothat it could makeits WorldCup debut, now just days away.Its first game: Messiand reigning champion Argentina against Algeria on June 16. Kansas City will hostsix matches in all, including a quarterfinal, and the metropolitan area is serving as ahome basenot only for la Albiceleste andAlgeria but also forperennial power England andthe Netherlands, alongtime Hunt family favorite. Meanwhile, five group-

There’slevelstoitand I’menjoying it. Those levels comefrom a player who acknowledged “a tough night” watching the ﬁrst roundofthe NFLdraft in 2019 when theprojected ﬁrst-rounder wasn’tselected by NewEngland, passed on by thePatriots who took N’KealHarrywiththe No 32 pickjust months after winning their sixth SuperBowl.

“I was already in my car leaving my draft party,went back to my room and Iwent in the closet just kind of trying to gather myself because Iwas just disappointed,” Brown said. “(New England) was where Iwanted to be. Obviously,I wanted to play with Tom(Brady). So, that didn’t happen. But everything happens for areason.”

Brown is now clear of what was afrustrating ﬁnal season in Philadelphia in which he expressed concerns aboutthe directionof the offense.

He declined to discuss what he thinks went wrongatthe end of his time with the Eagles.

“What’sdone is done. And I’m here,” Brown said.

stage matches will be played at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, not far from whereLamar Hunt once lived. Four more will be played at thehome of theCowboys in the knockout rounds, in-

“Not sure if I’ve been around onethatlooks just like him,” Patriots offensive coordinator JoshMcDaniels said. “Maybe the closest thing I’ve seen is Gronk (RobGronkowski). So thisisa bigguy.Hedoes alot of things well. And I’m looking forward to seeing how we can acclimate him and ﬁt him into our system.”

Tackle Will Campbell said Brown is agame-changer “He’sobviouslybeen able to do some incredible things in this league,” Campbell said. “It obviously elevates everybody around him.”

The Patriots have been viewed as alikelylanding spot for Brown since they released receiverStefon Diggs in March, taking away Maye’s top option duringlast season’sSuper Bowl run.

Patriots coach Mike Vrabel, nowreunited withthe playerhe coached forthree seasons in Tennessee,saidBrown’s signingwas theculmination of anegotiation with Philadelphia that“stalled” initially before ultimately reaching the ﬁnishing line. “Just tryingtoimprove our football team every possible way. Give our offense multiple weapons to build on what we did last year,” Vrabel said. The expectation is for Brown to playonthe outside, though Vrabel said he will learn all receiver positions in the offense.

cludingasemifinalmatch on July 14.

“I think this is one of the final pegs of fulfilling dad’s legacy,” Dan Hunt said. “He called Arrowhead Stadium his favorite place on earth,

and it’sjust so cool to have gamesthere.And youknow, Dallas was his hometown, and he loved it so much.SoIthink he would be just excited that we’re back here. Ithink he would be over themoon.”

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react after scoring

Superregionals full of surprises

BY ERIC OLSON AP sportswriter

Atopsy-turvy regionalround in the NCAA Tournament has set up an intriguingset of eightsuper regionals featuring seven teams from the SoutheasternConference,justone from theAtlantic Coast Conference and fourmidmajor programs.

Nine of the 16 national seeds advanced to super regionals but conspicuously absent arethe top two, UCLA and Georgia Tech. TwoNo. 4regionalseeds,Little Rock and St. John’s, reached the tournament’ssecond weekend for the ﬁrst time.

Four of the best-of-three supers are Friday through Sunday: Cal Poly (39-22) at No.16national seed West Virginia (43-15); Little Rock (39-26)atTroy(36-30); Southern California (47-16)atNo. 5North Carolina (48-11-1);and Ole Miss (39-21) at No. 4Auburn (42-20).

The four series Saturday through Monday are Oklahoma (36-22)atNo. 15 Kansas (45-16); St. John’s(36-24) at No.7Alabama (40-19); No. 11 Oregon (4316) at No. 6Texas (43-13); and No. 14 Mississippi State (43-17) at No. 3Georgia (49-12)

The eight winners advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, starting June 12.

No Omaharepeats

None of the 2025 CWS teams will be back in Omaha after Arkansas, CoastalCarolina, Oregon State and UCLA were eliminated in regionals. The other four CWS teams from last year —Arizona, Louisville, national champion LSU and Murray State— did not make the NCAA Tournament.

Thismarks the firsttimeno teams from the previous year’s CWS reached super regionals. It will be the second straight CWS with no teams from the previous year after there had been at least one in every CWS from 19572024.

SECbounces back

The SEC hadseven ofits 12 tournament teams get through regionals after having only four of 13 do so last year.College baseball’smost powerful conference has produced the last sixnational champions, 11 of the last 16 and has had ateam in 15 of the last16 CWS ﬁnals.

The SEC is assured of having two teams in the CWS and could have arecord-tying four

ACC flops

The ACC had the No. 2conference RPI and had nine teamsin regionals. Only one, North Caro-

lina, made it through.Prior to this year,the ACChad never had fewer than twoteams in super regionals

First-timers

Cal Poly,Kansas,Little Rock and Troy will be making their super regional debuts.

BigWestTournamentchampion Cal Poly wasthe No. 3seed in the Los AngelesRegional and beat Virginia Tech once andSt. Mary’stwice. Mustangspitchers combinedfor a1.33 ERA in the three games,and Nick Bonn earned his nation-leading 16th and 17th saves. Casey Murray batted .583 (7 for 12)

Kansas hosts former longtime conference mate Oklahoma after overcoming afive-run deficittobeat Arkansas 13-10 in the regional ﬁnal. TheJayhawks’ 45 wins are tied with the program record set by the 1993 CWSteam, andthey’ve hit aschool-record 110 homers

Little Rock of theOhio Valleyand Troy of theSun Beltare pairedagainsteach other for a battle of the Trojans. One surely will be adopted as the local fan favorite in Omaha (think 2025 Murray State, 2023 OralRoberts, etc.)

LittleRock,whichreached a regional ﬁnal ayearago against LSU, broke through with three straight wins as the No. 4regionalseed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Blake Simpson wasregional MVP after going 8for 14 with adouble, triple, homer and four RBIs. Troy,one of the last four teams to receive an at-large bid, went to Florida and outscored the Gators 26-13 over twogames to advance.

Year of thecatcher

The deep pooloftalent at catcher will be on display across the country

SEC playerofthe year Daniel Jackson of Georgia is batting .396 andisfourth nationally with29 homers and 83 RBIs. Then there’s Texas’ Carson Tinney (.333, 21 HRs, 56 RBIs); Auburn’sChase Fralick (.321,20HRs,60RBIs); St. John’sAdam Agresti (19 HRs, 54 RBIs);Oklahoma’sDeitenLachance (14 HRs, 58 RBIs); West Virginia’sGavin Kelly (.381, 16 HRs, 56 RBIs); Cal Poly’sRyan Tayman (.362, 18 HRs, 56 RBIs); andTroy’sJimmy Janicki (.349, 23 doubles,85RBIs)

Home-fieldadvantage

Since the tournament went to its current format in 1999, the team hosting asuper regional on its home ﬁeld has won69.3% of the time. That’s142 of 205 and does not include three series that were played at neutral sites.

ChrisRamirez,SS, CalBaptist

Five LSUsoftballplayers to entertransferportal

BY JIM KLEINPETER

Contributingwriter

FiveLSU softball players, includingtwo of its biggest names,have announcedtheir intention to enter the transfer portal, which opens next Monday

Left-handed pitcher Jayden Heavener and ﬁrst baseman Tori Edwards plan to leaveafter their sophomore seasons in which they helped lead the Tigerstothe super regionals.

Alsoplanning to depart are utility playerMaddox McKee, outfielder Destiny Harris and catch Jada Phillips. LSU coachBethTorinadeclined to comment on the departures. Heavener came to LSU as the nation’s No.1recruit in 2025 and started her career in spectacular fashion, throwinga five-inning perfect game againstCharlotte with 13 strikeouts.She finished herfreshmanseason 13-5 with a2.75 ERA and 152 strikeouts in 1192/3 innings.

This season,Heavener posted a 13-9 recordwitha 2.81 ERAwith 128 strikeouts in 1391/3 innings.

But Heavener struggled with her control. In two seasons, she walked 155 batters, hit 51 andthrew 37 wild pitches

“This hasn’tbeenaneasy decision. Iamextremely grateful for all the opportunitiesand friendships I made along theway,” Heavener posted on her Xaccount. “Thank youfor everyonewho supported me through my journey here at LSU. Can’twait to see what the future holds forme.”

Edwards, one of three team captains in 2026, wasapreseason AllAmericanwho wonSEC Freshman of the Year honors in 2025 after clubbing 18 homersand driving in 73 runs with a.383 average. Her numberstailedoff to 12 homers, 45 RBIs and a.284 averagein2026

“I am extremely grateful for all of thefriendships andopportunities that LSU hasgiven me,” Edwards wroteonInstagram. “Thisexperience hashelped shape me in many ways. I’m reallyexcited forwhat’s ahead andIhave so much faith in God’s planfor this next chapter.”

McKee, Harris andPhillips played sparingly. McKeestarted 62 of 108 games in three seasons, including 37 startslast season while batting.284. Harris had17 starts last season with two homers

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and 12 RBIs. Phillips played behind preseasonAll-American Maci Bergeron at catcher.She started sevengames in two seasons. LSUsigneda seven-player recruitingclassthat hasbeen ranked in thetop threenationally

WorldSeries ﬁnalslooks alot like 2025

Longhornsbeat RedRaiders in 3 gameslastseason

BY TIM WILLERT Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY Nijaree Canady andTexas Tech have performed well under pressure at the Women’sCollege World Series.

The 11th-seeded Red Raiders won three elimination games, including two against top-seeded Alabama on Monday to earn areturn trip to the ﬁnals.

Canady saved her bestfor last, pitching acomplete-game twohitter as Texas Tech defeated Alabama 2-0inthe second semiﬁnal matchup of the day

“I don’thave any doubt that was her best performance of theyear and that’sagreat conﬁdence builder for our team and NiJa to go into the ﬁnalswiththateffort,” Texas Tech coach Gerry Glasco said.

Canady is the onlyactivepitcher in college softballwithmorethan 100 wins and 1,000 strikeouts and thefirst with multiple shutouts at multiple schools (Stanford) in NCAA history

Theonly achievement eluding theseniorright-handerisa national championship.

Texas Tech (61-8) will play No. 2 seed Texas (51-12) on Wednesday at Devon Park to beginabest-ofthree series. TheLonghorns won the 2025 nationalchampionship afterbeating theRed Raidersin three games. It will be the first championship series rematchin WCWS history— with the previous rematches coming in one-game ﬁnals.

Texas and ace Teagan Kavan traveled asimilar pathtothe ﬁnal series by winning four elimination games —two of them coming againstseventh-seeded Tennessee on Monday

Kavan pitched acomplete-game two-hitter and the Longhorns advanced to the championship series by defeating the Volunteers 4-0 on Monday in their second matchup of the day

The Longhorns needed twowins against Tennessee and accomplished the feat with a5-2 win in

tory Glasco hasn’t hesitatedtoreplace one ace with another if warranted.

the ﬁrst game, then followed with Kavan’s dominating win. Texas will be making its third consecutive appearance in the ﬁnalseries.

“I thinkthatwe’ve hadour ups and downs without adoubt,” Texas coach MikeWhite said. “Wehad that lastyear as well. To be able to ﬁght through it and trust in one anotherand pull thebig games out when it really matters.

“Tech’sdonethe same thing. Their back’s been against the wall, and they’vebeen able to pull it through. That’swhatgood teamsdo. Ithink that’sthe main thing I’ve seen fromthis program is their resilience.”

Canady wore down against the Longhorns in the 2025 championship series, but she won’t be shouldering the load this time around.

Prior to Monday,Canady (29-6) only had twoseven-inning complete games all year,with the last coming on March 20. She shares timeinthe circle with junior lefthander Kaitlyn Terry,who won 41 games in two seasons at UCLA before joining the Red Raiders. Terry, whoalsoplays in the outfield, hasadded 24 wins and valuable postseason inningsfor Glasco. She drove in the go-ahead runagainst herformer team in Sunday night’sextra-inning vic-

“Obviously this postseason hasn’tgone the wayI wanted it to go,” Canady said.“Ifeel like Ihaven’tbeenmybest.But like Coach Glasco said, it’sabout when youpeak. Idon’tknow, if I’mgoing to be good, at least it’stowards the end of the year.”

Kavan, meanwhile,led the Longhorns to the national title last season. She went 4-0withasave at the World Series and was named most outstanding playerafter throwing 31 2/3 innings without allowing an earned run. She was an NFCA second-team All-American last season after ﬁnishing with a28-5 record and a2.16 ERA. She hasa 48-8 career record heading into herjuniorseason.

“I think I’ve grown alot mentally and thenalso physically with the implementation of more confidence in my other pitches to complement my rise ball that we all know,”Kavan said. “But, yeah, Ithink just theconfidence in that piece. Ithink last year at the World Series was thefirst time Ireally trusted my dropball and was able to use it more. And so Ithink Icarried that into this whole season. It made me abetter pitcher.Ithink the experience is huge, andexperience always helps, and our team is super experienced.”

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if LSU jumps into that mix soon. Souders and LSU have spoken,his adviser told The Advocate, and a visit to Baton Rouge is still in the cards. The interest in Souders from across the SoutheasternConference is warranted. He posted a1.006 on-base plus slugging percentagethisseason and was aﬁrst-team All-Southern Conference selection at Samford.

Ramirez is aperfect replacement for Steven Milam at shortstop if he leaves for MLB.

leticAssociation Player of theYear as asophomore, blasting 13 home runs with a1.219 OPS and36stolen bases. He hit for more powerasa sophomore than as afreshman recording 24 more extra-base hits —and had 17 more walks than last year despitemaking the CAA AllRookie Team the season prior Laskofski was the William &Mary shortstop this season, but he played third base as afreshman, meaning he could ﬁlleither role forthe Tigers next year.LSU struggledto ﬁndasolutionatthird this season and won’thave Seth Dardar,Tanner Reaves,TrentCaraway or Brayden Simpson on next season’sroster Email Koki Rileyatkoki.riley@ theadvocate.com. LSU

With LSU likely losingits entire starting outﬁeld, Souders is a strong plug-and-play option for the Tigers

Ramirez, theWAC Player of the Year,was astar at Cal Baptist for two seasons, hitting.383 with a 1.016 OPS and 21 steals ayear after winning the WACFreshman of theYear award Like Milam, Ramirez is on the smaller side (5-foot-9, 170 pounds), buthewas adefensive wizard at CalBaptist, becoming atwo-time All-WAC DefensiveTeam selection andwinning the Defensive Player of theYear award this season. JamieLaskofski,SS, William& Mary Laskofski was the Coastal Ath-

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NBA FINALS

Patrick, Walt, Willis ... Jalen?

Knicks star guard Brunson playing for championship, New york legacy

BY BRIAN MAHONEY AP basketball writer

Jalen Brunson might be playing for something more than a championship in these NBA Finals. A victory would put him in the conversation as the greatest New York Knick ever and at the same time earn New York sports immortality status. After just four years, he is all over the record book for a franchise that has been around for 80 NBA seasons. He is already third on its career list in playoff points. The Knicks have advanced in the postseason every year since Brunson arrived in 2022, after winning one series in the two decades before. Now they are in the NBA Finals for the ﬁrst time since 1999, with a shot to win their ﬁrst title since 1973. Patrick Ewing, Walt Frazier and Willis Reed in some order are widely regarded as the top players in franchise history. If Brunson can lead the Knicks to the title now, there’s an argument he could be the best of them all “Well, right now a lot of people say

he’s the greatest Knick ever because of getting them to the ﬁnals and obviously if he wins a championship,” Frazier said. “So I don’t think he’s the greatest Knick ever — I always say it’s Willis, and Willis said it’s Patrick, and Patrick says it’s Patrick. So he would deﬁnitely be on Mount Rushmore. We’ll put him up there if he can bring this title.

Brunson is averaging 26.9 points in the postseason, slightly up from his 26 per game in the regular season. The Eastern Conference finals MVP is making history just by reaching the finals, as he and his father Rick a Knicks assistant who played for them in 1999 when Jalen was just shy of 3 years old will become the first fatherson duo to play in the finals for the same franchise.

None of this was expected when Brunson signed in New York. This wasn’t Victor Wembanyama arriving in San Antonio from France as the No. 1 pick in the draft as a 7-foot-4 giant whose array of skills made it easy to forecast that he could become one of the greats of the game.

Brunson stands just 6-2 and doesn’t appear to be blessed with

explosive speed. That’s how a twotime NCAA champion and college player of the year at Villanova ended up as just a second-round pick in 2018. He landed in Dallas at the same time as Luka Doncic, and seeing how easy the Slovenian sensation made the game look had Brunson wondering about his own abilities.

“It made me kind of question myself to see how hard I actually had to work to be in the position I wanted to be,” he said.

He was largely a backup in his four seasons in Dallas before the Knicks spent more than $100 million to pry him away It’s probably the best decision they ever made and with what Brunson has done in New York at that low cost for a now perennial All-Star one of the best free agent moves any team ever has. Get a title and the second-team All-NBA pick would be conﬁrmed as a superstar Of course, the opposite could happen. If Brunson struggles against the Spurs’ good defensive guards and the Knicks lose, there will be critics quick to say they need more because Brunson just isn’t quite a 1-A.

“I mean, I don’t really care what people say, so at the end of the day I’m not going to base my judgment or evaluation of him as a player off people that never played the game and just never been in that situation,” teammate and close friend Josh Hart said. “So I know he doesn’t really care about it, I don’t really care about it. At the end of the day those quote-unquote people are irrelevant.”

Brunson doesn’t seem to seek the spotlight and will never ooze coolness like Frazier, the stylish “Clyde” known for his colorful suits. But a title puts him in the same club, and membership has long-lasting beneﬁts.

“I can’t walk the street, it’s like I’m in a parade Anywhere I go people are like, ‘Oh, there he is, there’s Clyde! There’s Clyde!’ ” Frazier said. “So if these guys win another title — man, I can’t spend money now in New York. I’ll never have to spend money again in this city

“And that’s what I want to show the players. Hey man, I’ve been doing this for 50 years. Fifty years just for winning two titles! So you guys can have it if you just win one title.”

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Conference ﬁnals.

“Watching him as a player, it’s pretty unbelievable,” Brunson said Tuesday

“The things he’s able to do on both sides of the ball, people have never really seen before from a person of his size. So, it’s incredible to watch. He’s pretty incredible.”

The Spurs got to the NBA Finals by winning 62 games in the regular season, getting past Portland in Round 1, Minnesota in Round 2, then going the distance in a seven-game classic that ended the reign of Oklahoma City as NBA champions. The Knicks got here on the strength of an 11-game playoff winning streak — the last three of Round 1 against Atlanta, then sweeping Philadelphia and Cleveland And the winning margin over those 11 games is like none other in any 11-game stretch in the NBA’s 80-year history

“It’s a great team,” Wembanyama said. “It’s a great team of experienced guys who are not here by chance, but by relentless effort over the years. Very different career paths for all of them. They’re right where they’re supposed to be, in my opinion.”

The only players in this series who have started ﬁnals games in the past are Harrison Barnes (for Golden State) of the Spurs and Knicks wing Mikal Bridges (for Phoenix). Barnes typically doesn’t start for San Antonio but Bridges typically does for the Knicks, and that means nine of the 10 starters in Game 1 will be in unfamiliar territory

“When you can prepare the right way, when you do your routines, you treat it like a normal game, it allows you to be as normal as possible,” Brunson said. There are ties that players have to NBA Finals past, even without playing in them. Spurs guard Dylan Harper’s dad is Ron Harper, a five-time NBA champion as a player Brunson’s father — Knicks assistant Rick Brunson played for New York in the 1999 finals, and Knicks guard Jordan Clarkson got a bird’s-eye view of past Spurs championship parades. He grew up in San Antonio and his stepmother worked at a hotel that had a prime view of the parade route.

“Being able to take pictures and run up on players for autographs, I was deﬁnitely that kid,” said Clarkson, whose father used to detail cars owned by some Spurs players.

“Seeing this energy and seeing how alive the city comes when the Spurs are in the ﬁnals and winning championships, it’s a great experience.”

It’s been more than 20 years since a player from a high school in the New Orleans area appeared in an NBA Finals. You have to go all the way back to 2003 when St. Augustine grad Kerry Kittles played for the then-New Jersey Nets against the Spurs to ﬁnd a local star in the NBA Finals. So it’s understandable why this is such a big deal.

“It don’t get no better than to be on the highest stage in basketball,” Stockton said.

“This is like playing in the Super Bowl in football. I can’t wait to see what happens.”

Stockton isn’t surprised by what already has happened Robinson, who moved from Florida to Chalmette for his junior year, was considered one of the best players in the country by the time he graduated in 2017. One recruiting website had him ranked sixth nationally in the class, above future NBA stars such as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Trae Young. Robinson was an easy choice for Metro Player of the Year by what was then The New Orleans Advocate after leading Chalmette to the Class 5A semiﬁnals.

After his senior year at Chalmette, he took a year off to just train for the NBA.

“I always felt he had the build and the talent,” Stockton said.

“He put a lot of work in. He was always the ﬁrst one in the gym and the last one to leave.” Vicki Nuccio was one of the teachers at Chalmette and stays in touch with Robinson. She remem-

bers those days when Robinson had to duck his head whenever he entered his classrooms.

“People thought he was going to do well, but I don’t think many people thought he would be where he is now,” Nuccio said. “It’s surreal seeing it. I can’t pull up my Facebook page without someone sharing something about him.” There’s plenty to share about Robinson. It could be one of his blocked shots or rim-rattling

dunks that gets Knicks diehard fan Spike Lee standing on his feet Or it could be just fans capturing Robinson leaving Madison Square Garden driving one of his trickedout, custom monster trucks.

“I need a damn ladder to get in there,” Stockton said with a laugh. Robinson owns six of the trucks that he helps design. Other than the fancy trucks and his 7-foot frame, you wouldn’t know Robinson was a key player for one of the

NBA’s most storied franchises. He stays pretty low key

“When you’re in the NBA, you obviously have the celebrity status,” Nuccio said. “But he doesn’t care about any of that. Mitchell loves his daughter, his trucks and playing basketball. That’s it So he does well with the fame.”

Guy McInnis is a former St. Bernard Parish president and also was an assistant coach for Chalmette during Robinson’s junior year McInnis also is getting several phone calls and hearing all of the buzz around town as the NBA Finals approach.

“I’m excited, but I’m also nervous because I want him to play well and represent well,” McInnis said. “When you’re watching somebody from your school, it makes you proud.”

Robinson, despite breaking his right pinky ﬁnger and having surgery since the Eastern Conference ﬁnals ended, is expected to play It’s not clear when or how the injury occurred.

“I don’t think anything could keep Mitch from playing in a ﬁnals,” Stockton said. “It’s once in a lifetime.”

The Knicks, seeking their ﬁrst title since 1973, desperately need Robinson to play He gives them a physical presence to deal with 7-foot-4 phenom Victor Wembanyama.

The Knicks and Spurs have played three times this season.

The Knicks won the two games that Robinson played in and lost the one Robinson didn’t play In the NBA Cup championship game, the ﬁnale of the In-Season Tournament, Robinson recorded 15 rebounds on a night Wembanyama ﬁnished with 18 points and six

rebounds.

The Knicks won the Cup championship 124-113. Now they have their eyes on an even bigger prize in a series that has several other ties to New Orleans.

Three of Robinson’s teammates (Jose Alvarado, Josh Hart and Trey Jemison) once played for the New Orleans Pelicans. Alvarado, a fan favorite in New Orleans, was traded to the Knicks in February

The Spurs also have New Orleans connections. Reserve center Kelly Olynyk played for the Pelicans at the end of last season. San Antonio starting guard De’Aaron Fox was born in New Orleans but moved to Houston when he was 4 years old.

But the folks in Chalmette are rooting for the Knicks for one reason and one reason only. Chalmette is Mr. Robinson’s neighborhood. He holds an annual camp there to give back to the kids.

“These kids, you can give them a dream, give them hope,” Robinson said at his camp in 2024.

Now he’s living his own dream, playing in the NBA Finals. Right after the ﬁnals, he’ll hold his camp again on June 25.

“He’s been doing great things here for a while,” Nuccio said. “Now the whole world gets to see him. The whole parish will be watching.”

That includes a coach whose phone just won’t stop ringing.

“I hope he gets that ring,” Stockton said. “They are going crazy up there in New York about the Knicks.”

They are doing the same thing 1,300 miles away in Chalmette.

Email Rod Walker at rwalker@ theadvocate.com.

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Chalmette center Mitchell Robinson glides in for a tomahawk dunk against Brother Martin on Dec. 13, 2016, at Brother Martin.

(Holmes 3-2), 6:15 p.m. San Francisco (Webb 2-4) at Milwaukee (TBD), 6:40 p.m. Texas (Gore 4-4) at St. Louis (Pallante 5-4), 6:45 p.m. Athletics (Springs 3-6) at Chicago Cubs (Rea 5-3), 7:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Skenes 6-5) at Houston (Arrighetti 7-1), 7:10 p.m. Colorado (Lorenzen 2-7) at L.A. Angels (Ureña 2-4), 8:38 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Ohtani 5-2) at Arizona (Gallen 3-4), 8:40 p.m. College baseball NCAA Division I Regionals glance Double elimination; x-if

Quick start

2: No. 3 Troy vs. No. 4 Little Rock, 2 p.m.

x-Game 3: No. 3 Troy vs. No. 4 Little Rock, TBD

Tuscaloosa Super Regional

Saturday

Game 1: No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 St. John’s, 8 p.m.

Sunday

Game 2: No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 St. John’s, 2 p.m.

x-Game 3: No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 St. John’s, TBD

College World Series

June 12-21/22

At Omaha, Neb.

Tennis

French Open results

Tuesday

At Stade Roland Garros, Paris

Purse: €28,900,000

Surface: Red clay

Men’s Singles

Quarterﬁnals Alexander Zverev (2), Germany, def. Rafael

Jodar (27), Spain, 7-6 (3), 6-1, 6-3. Jakub Mensik (26), Czechia, def. Joao Fonseca (28), Brazil, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Women’s Singles

Quarterfinals Mirra Andreeva (8), Russia, def. Sorana Cirstea (18), Romania, 6-0, 6-3. Marta Kostyuk (15), Ukraine, def. Elina Svitolina (7), Ukraine, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. Men’s Doubles Quarterfinals Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori (5), Italy, def. Petr Nouza, Czechia, and Neil Oberleitner, Austria, 6-7 (7), 6-1, 7-6 (12). Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals Taylor Townsend, United States, and Katerina Siniakova (1), Czechia, def. Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, and Magali Kempen, Belgium, 6-1, 6-3. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Luisa Stefani (4), Brazil, def. Vera Zvonareva, Russia, and Laura Siegemund (11), Germany, 6-4, 7-5. Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, and Laura Siegemund, Germany, def. Neal Skupski, Britain, and Desirae Krawczyk (4), United States, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

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Baseball

Major League Baseball

Yankees slugger Judge out with bone bruise in right rib

BY LARRY FLEISHER Associated Press

“He’s

Boone said before the series opener against the Guardians. “Then over the weekend, the last couple of games in Sacramento, I think it became a little more than just that, where I noticed with some swings and stuff. It became a little more than just nagging. I think it was affecting him.”

Boone said tests on the team’s off day on Monday revealed the bruise and Judge was scheduled to meet with a team doctor later Tuesday Judge is hitting .248 with 17 hom-

ers and 38 RBIs. The three-time AL MVP has one homer in his last 18 games since May 10 and ended an 11-game homer and RBI drought with a game-ending, two-run drive in the ninth inning to give the Yankees a 2-0 win over Tampa Bay on May 24. Judge entered the game against Tampa Bay in a 1-for-24 slump that dropped his batting average to .246. He was hitless in 15 at-bats before singling in the ﬁrst inning. “I think probably something

that’s been affecting him a little bit here recently, especially this weekend,” Boone said. “So, hopefully, it is something that we just get calmed down here and put it behind us.” Judge won the batting title last season when he batted a careerhigh .331 with 53 homers and 114 RBIs in 152 games. He missed 10 games from July 26-Aug. 4 with a ﬂexor strain in his right elbow sustained on a throw to home July 22 in Toronto. He underwent a

plasma-rich injection and did not require offseason surgery, though he did not return to the outﬁeld until Sept. 5.

When Judge was hurt last season, Giancarlo Stanton played 17 games in the outﬁeld. Stanton has been out since April 24 with a strained right calf.

On Tuesday, José Caballero made his 22nd career start in right ﬁeld and third since being acquired from Tampa Bay at the July 31 trade deadline.

Hurricanes forward Nikolaj Ehlers celebrates his goal with defenseman

Stanley Cup Finals against the Golden Knights in Raleigh, N.C. Ehlers

Allyou caneat

Whereto find thebest dining deals, steaks, cocktailsand much more

BY IAN McNULTY Staff writer

Summer doesn’tofﬁcially start until later this month with the solstice, according to thecalendar.But New Orleans foodies follow another sign: the proliferation of dining deals andrestaurantspecials clearlysignals the shift in seasons.

Next up is Restaurant Week, an annual campaign fromthe Louisiana Restaurant Association and New Orleans & Co. to help its member businesses lure in more locals and regionaltravelers during slower tourism times

This year,itruns June 8-14, when restaurants around the city (and afew in the suburbs) offermulti-course, setprice menus. Many have differentspecial menus for lunch, brunch anddinner Here’sthe guiding structure:

n Two-course lunch, $25 or less

n Two-course brunch, $36 or less

ä See DEALS, page 2D

INSIDE THEGRAVEYARD SHIFTAT NEWORLEANS AREA -HOURDINERS

‘Wesavelives come

BY KASEY BUBNASH | Staff writer

wasjust after midnight on Bourbon Street when57-year-old TimBrouillette walked into Clover Grill for the third time in four days and took aseat at the counter

By IANMcNULTy imcnulty@theadvocate.com

The tiny brewery taproom Care Forgot Beercraft (1728 St. Charles Ave.) marked its two-year anniversary last weekend with aparty that brought specialty oysters from down thebayou, sno-balls from Uptown and anew beer with atribute brewed into it Thebeer is essentially acelebration of life of afriend who embodied theidea of community for many.The same beer

ä See BITES, page 2D

Crowds of tourists were still streamingupand down the neon-soaked street, drinksinhand, searching for the next best bar on aFriday night. The smell of sizzling burgerscalled Brouillette back to thenear century-old haunt he frequentsontripstoNew Orleans.

The griddleworksdouble-time at the CloverGrill on Bourbon Street. The retro diner has remained largelyunchanged sinceit first opened in the ’30s

Youjust can’tget this at homeinWisconsin, he said.

“This is, like, truly an oldfashioned greasy spoon,” Brouillettesaidashegrabbed afork and tucked into asteaminghot chilidog. “Thisisthe real stuff.”

Elsewhere in the French Quarter,mostotherrestaurants and cafes had closed up shop. The chairs outside Café du Monde were stacked, thedoors at NapoleonHouse locked. But at Clover Grill, the lights would remain on and the grill dutifully hot through the wee hours of the morning. There aren’tasmany 24-hour institutions in NewOrleans as there once were. The number of 24-hour restaurants fell by 18%acrossthe U.S. between 2020-24, data reported by CNN shows, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic,increasing costs and changing consumer habits across the country The graveyard shift —generally 10 p.m. to 6a.m. —can ä See DINERS, page 2D

STAFF PHOTO By IAN McNULTy Birria-style lamb is servedwith broth on the bone overablack bean puree at Aguasanta restaurant in New Orleans.

Fresh coffee is servedupatthe Tic-TocCafé in Metairie.

STAFF PHOTOSByDAVID GRUNFELD

Tyler Savaski, whose grandpa started Coffee &inthe ’70s, says it’sworth it to be abletofeed the people with nowhere else to go

By The Associated Press

Today is Wednesday, June 3, the 154th day of 2026. There are 211 days left in the year

Today in history:

On June 3, 1943, an altercation between U.S. Navy sailors and young Mexican Americans on the streets of Los Angeles led to several days of clashes known as the Zoot Suit Riots as White mobs attacked Mexican Americans across the city, injuring more than 150 people.

Also on this date:

In 1844, the last conﬁrmed specimens of the great auk, a ﬂightless bird, were killed on Eldey island, near Iceland

In 1935, the French liner SS Normandie set a record on its maiden voyage, arriving in New York after crossing the Atlantic in just four days.

In 1965, during the Gemini 4, spaceﬂight, astronaut Edward H White became the ﬁrst American to “walk” in space.

In 1989, Chinese army troops entered Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to begin a crackdown

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will be turning up on tap in at least 10 taprooms around town this summer

The beer is called Bugs and Hugs, and it was created in honor of the Michael Garcia. A Marine veteran and father, Garcia, 41, was known as a great connector of different communities in the city, including around the circuit of local craft breweries where he worked.

He was killed in April, caught in the crossﬁre of a gunbattle that erupted as he was driving along North Claiborne Avenue. A second-line in this memory drew throngs of people to the streets of the Marigny

The Bugs and Hugs name of the beer is a reference to Garcia’s prowess as a crawﬁsh boiler

It’s a Czech pilsner, a crisp, clean style of beer that goes great with boiled seafood and with New Orleans summertime weather It was Garcia’s favorite type of beer, said Care Forgot founder Connor Martinez.

“We’re grieving but also honoring him any way we can,” said Martinez. “I think it would make Michael happy to see this happening.”

While the participating to taprooms are all making a Czech pilsner, individual brewers will make their own rendition. They’re also working on their own timelines.

That means beer lovers will ﬁnd different versions of Bugs and Hugs turning up on top at different spots in the weeks ahead. Some of the beer may also be canned.

The breweries making their own Bugs and Hugs beer are (release timing will vary in the coming weeks): Brieux Carre Brewing, Port Orleans Brewing, NOLA Brewing, Miel Brewery, the Abita New Orleans taproom, Urban South Brewery, Ecology Beer Creative, Skeeta Hawk

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n Three-course dinner, $32 or less (think casual restaurants)

n Premium three-course dinner, $56 (more upscale restaurants).

Note that some restaurants will offer add-on courses or other options, which can raise the price; others might throw in a complimentary drink. It’s all adjustable to the style and price range of the particular restaurant

How to cut in? I’ve been scouting this year’s menus and have a few ideas below based around great deals, fun nights out, signature dishes to try and more.

Start with a drink

Make a Restaurant Week meal

more of an outing with a two-stop itinerary for a classic cocktail beforehand This can sometimes be under the same roof. Each of the old-line French Creole restaurants has a bar well worth visits on their own, and for Restaurant Week, their kitchens typically flex beyond the traditional dishes. A visit to Arnaud’s in particular should always include a stop its elegant and innovative

on student-led pro-democracy demonstrations, crushing their movement.

In 2016, former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, whose athletic feats and activism placed him among the most revered athletes of all time, died in Scottsdale, Arizona, at age 74.

In 2017, elite rock climber Alex Honnold became the ﬁrst to climb solo to the top of the massive granite wall known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without ropes or safety gear

In 2017, a terror attack began when a van barreled into pedestrians on London Bridge as attackers killed six people in a series of vehicle and knife attacks before police shot them dead

Today’s birthdays: Former Cuban President Raúl Castro is 95. Basketball Hall of Famer Billy Cunningham is 83. Golf Hall of Famer Hale Irwin is 81. Singer Suzi Quatro is 76. Singer Deniece Williams is 76. Former ﬁrst lady Jill Biden is 75. Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Peter Vidmar is 65. Musician Kerry King (Slayer) is 62.

Brewing, Parleaux Beer Lab and Care Forgot Beercraft.

Self-serve Spanish feast

Walk into certain taverns in Spain, especially in Basque Country, and no menu is necessary All of the tempting offerings are on display, ready to pluck off platters in the manner of a cocktail party

These are pintxos, a style of tapas served in bite-sized portions or slightly bigger, and often served on skewers (the term pintxos references the stick).

That’s the inviting sight greeting diners at Plates Bar & Restaurant (1051 Annunciation St.) in the Warehouse District for a new summer series now underway

The restaurant, known for its regular menu of small plates, calls these casual events San Sebastian Nights, in honor of the Basque culinary capital.

The pay-one-price ticket ($60) includes self-serve access to tables of pintxos and other tapas through the evening, which runs from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Drinks are sold separately, and the bar has specials on Spanish wine, including a few poured from the porron, a glass decanter with a narrow spout that aerates the crisp, white Txakolinas and other Spanish wines.

The ﬁrst edition saw a varied spread of traditional Spanish ﬂavors, including jamon and Manchego cheese, boquerones

(the sour marinated anchovies) on crusty toasts, pan con tomate (the ubiquitous Spanish tomato bread), squid stuffed with chorizo, piquillo peppers stuffed with paella, grilled octopus skewers and more as chef Ferrel Harrison and his crew kept refreshing the platters.

The restaurant’s full menu is also available during the events, with larger dishes and tapas, with many blending Spanish and Louisiana inﬂuences.

The restaurant plans host these San Sebastian Nights on the last Wednesday of the month, at least through the summer Get tickets via OpenTable.com (look under “experiences”).

Email Ian McNulty at imcnulty@theadvocate.com.

French 75 Bar

For a more modern, Uptown version of this dinner and drinks duo, pair a meal at Gautreau’s with a stop at its sister wine bar Avegno next door (you can even bring your glass from the bar to the restaurant).

Another twist: take the elevator to the rooftop bar Hot Tin at the Pontchartrain Hotel before dinner downstairs at Jack Rose, which goes big on Creole seafood this year, with shrimp fricassee and grilled pompano with a Creole tomato romesco.

Try a new hot spot

Revisiting classics is one Restaurant Week approach; the ﬂip side is trying something new

Use the week as an excuse to check out the gorgeous riverfront digs of Delacroix, and try its take on downhome Louisiana flavor with crawfish étouffée or fried chicken with smothered okra on both lunch and dinner menus. Charmant just opened in November and is using its first Restaurant Week to showcase some of its signatures. At dinner, that includes the stand-out “phomo,” a cross between pho and grillades and grits (a play on its predecessor MoPho

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be a tough grind, requiring dedicated staff and a steady stream of trafﬁc to make the extra hours worth it.

But the few all-night diners that still exist in the New Orleans metro are a haven for night owls and early birds alike, party animals in need of a sobering plate of greasy food, travelers with nowhere else to stop, and workers who have to clock in by 7 a.m.

“As I like to say,” Clover Grill manager Katherine Pasquith said, “we save lives come 3 a.m.” Heroes of the night

Not all heroes wear capes. At Clover Grill, they wear bright red aprons and white T-shirts.

They hum along to the oldies as they press patties of ground beef into the flat-top grill and flip omelets at dangerous heights. They direct traffic as a steady flow of customers stumble off through the diner’s old French doors — couples and groups that launch into slurred debates over the bubble gum-pink, laminated menus waiting at each table.

For the past 10 years or so, 39-year-old Pasquith has worked among these champions of the night shift in some form or another, as a cook, server and now a manager

“I have some of the best and worst memories of my life in these walls,” she said in late May sitting in the retro diner that has remained largely unchanged since it ﬁrst opened in the ’30s.

Pasquith still laughs when she remembers a woman who disappeared after coming in to eat alone one night, only to be found stuck inside the walk-in an hour later. She mistook it for the bathroom and had to call police for help.

Clover Grill is an increasingly rare refuge for those who need to sober up. It’s one of only two restaurants on the 12-block Bourbon strip that don’t serve alcohol, Pasquith said. The other, NOLA Poboys, is open until 4 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Many of the city’s cafes and restaurants shortened their hours during the pandemic and then permanently, Café du Monde and Morning Call included. When Clover Grill ﬁrst reopened, Pasquith said it was quite some time before the overnight shift picked back up.

There are other modern challenges, too.

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Destination dishes

Similarly other restaurants are making signature dishes the centerpiece of their special menus. That’s the case at Tujague’s and its garlic-loaded chicken bonne femme, once an off-the-menu, semi-secret house special now getting a much-deserved glow up for the restaurant’s 170th anniversary

It’s a half portion (which is plenty). Get it with the grasshopper pie, inspired by the creamy, minty cocktail ﬁrst made here.

The lamb shank birria is one of the go-to dishes at Aguasanta, which takes a modern approach to Mexican ﬂavors, and also assembles a dinner a notch lower than most at $49.

The light seafood dishes of Peruvian cuisine can be especially refreshing in warm weather and Tito’s Ceviche and Pisco adds multiple renditions of its snappy namesake ceviches across a range of Restaurant Week menus (including a “casual dinner” for just $32)

Let them eat steak

With rising beef prices, can a set price deal still include steak? Restaurant Week menus say yes. Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse an-

most diners it’s some form of burgers, fries and breakfast,” she said. “How much of that can you just get DoorDashed at 3 a.m. now?”

On the clock at Tic-Toc

Open since 2000, Tic-Toc Café closes just two days a year: Christmas and Easter

It was one of the ﬁrst places to return to Jefferson Parish after Hurricane Katrina, and it acts as a roadside beacon day and night, just off North Causeway Boulevard in Metairie.

“I mean, a lot of people come in and they talk about not having anywhere else to go,” waitress Terri Lail said from behind the counter just before 2 a.m. May 23.

“And they say that people tell them about this place.”

Lail, 67, has worked at Tic-Toc for 24 years, the last 10 of which have been on the overnight shift.

She’s a night owl by nature, she said, and has trouble sleeping soundly anyway

She’s had quite a few not-exactlysober customers take naps in the wooden booths that line the walls at Tic-Toc — the diner’s thick, juicy burgers and hearty breakfast plates are a nightlife staple in Metairie. Lana Del Rey even made an appearance once.

But things were quiet this Saturday morning. Two sheriff’s deputies on a break shared a meal in a back corner booth, as they often do, and people trickled in to pick up takeout orders or play the poker machines.

Late-night rush or not, owner Mike Delahoussaye ﬁgures if he’s paying rent for 24 hours a day, he might as well be open 24 hours.

“They deal with every kind of person from A to Z,” Delahoussaye

chors its special menu with steak frites (and those frites are cooked in tallow for extra crispiness).

Emeril Lagasse’s more casual spot

Meril also has a steak au poivre and fries entree on its line up, and Luke pairs a hanger steak with a fried oyster appetizer

At Costera, try steak Spanish style, cooked on the super-hot plancha grill top, and don’t miss the roasted mushrooms as a ﬁrst course. There’s a more Latin American take at Basin with a hanger steak with chimichurri at dinner (and steak and eggs at brunch) while its more upscale sister steakhouses Brasa (in Old Metairie and the CBD) both have Restaurant Week deals.

For something a little different, the always-changing Bywater restaurant Suis Generis brines a skirt steak in tepache, Mexico’s fermented pineapple drink.

Extra value meals

Value is a relative calculation, and this plays at both end of the spectrum during Restaurant Week. When else can a dinner at the lux Restaurant R’evolution run for $56?

Commander’s Palace pegs the price for meals to the entree choice (two-course lunch from $23;

said of his late-night employees. “And so to keep them coming back for the next shift, I really make sure that I take care of them.” Coffee & camaraderie

Randy Mason, 70, and Michael McGuire, 75, wake up every morning and head from Westwego straight to Coffee &, where they’re usually in the same chairs at the same table with coffees in hand well before the sun rises.

It’s a little far from home, but they’ve been coming here for about the past three years, since 24-hour national chain Huddle House closed its West Bank locations. They’d already been served by 5 a.m. on Memorial Day

“The only one that opens early enough for us,” Mason said, McGuire nodding. “We roll early.”

Mason and McGuire are two of several early risers who visit the Marrero donut shop and diner religiously each morning to get out of the house and meet up with friends over a cup of joe. Most other coffee shops and breakfast joints don’t open until 6 a.m. or 7 a.m., and after decades spent clocking in at the mechanic shop, police station or construction site, nobody here seems able to sleep past 3 a.m.

Billy Simoneaux is one of them

He sat with his usual breakfast companions, a mix of retirees and workers who come in to tease each other and grab a bite to eat before heading into work.

“You must be bored today,” Simoneaux, 62, said to a waitress as she reﬁlled his coffee. “Three times in a half hour.”

He grinned as she rolled her eyes.

Tyler Savaski, whose grandpa started the business in the ’70s, has been serving donuts, grits and coffee to some of these customers since he was tall enough to work in a kitchen. Now 24, Savaski said most of his family members have spent time working at one of the various Coffee & locations that have existed over the years.

He remembers years of his father working seven days a week, often to help ﬁll in on the overnight shift.

Staying open 24 hours takes sacrifice. It cuts into maintenance time and adds to costs.

But Savaski said it’s worth it to be able to feed the people with nowhere else to go, however late at night or early in the morning.

“And we’ll always be there for that,” he said.

Email Kasey Bubnash at kasey bubnash@theadvocate.com.

three-course dinner from $40)

Remember there are still 25-cent martinis at lunch (limit three!) and at dinner dessert choices include the classic bread pudding soufﬂé (which has a $3.50 up-charge which is very much worth it).

Gris Gris keeps it focused on value with a $32 dinner menu that still brings its standout gumbo and comfort food classic “mom’s chicken and dumplings.”

Zea Rotisserie & Bar goes into extra value mode for the week, with a dinner designed for two at $59, with a starter to share and two entrées Locations in New Orleans, Kenner Harvey and Harahan are offering the special, but the Metairie location has closed to move into a new building at Clearview City Center Another bargain is hiding out at Filmore in the Oaks, part of the Bayou Oaks golf course at City Park. Its two-course lunch is $23, and that includes a chimichurri steak sandwich and a midday glass of wine by the golf links.

See the list of restaurants and menu details for Restaurant Week New Orleans at neworleans.com/ restaurantweek.

Email Ian McNulty at imcnulty@theadvocate.com.

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STAFF PHOTOS By DAVID GRUNFELD

Terri Lail works behind the counter at Tic-Toc Café in Metairie.

The Clover Grill is located on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

Marilyn Smith, Lee Giorgio, Rhonda Eckholdt,StephanieBurks

Clothes to You!

“Wethank all of you for being here,” said Marian Gibbs,asshe addressed the comely crowd at the annual Prix d’Elegance luncheoninthe Grand Ballroom of the New OrleansHilton Riverside. She continued, saying that everyone present was apart of the organizationand played arole in the success of the day. Marian is the president of BRAVO, theBallet Resource and Volunteer Organization of theNew Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA),the recipientofthe luncheon’sproceeds.The Men and Women of Fashion and NOBA extended the invitationto the popular luncheon, which beneﬁtedthe association’sYouthScholarship Fund. Further recognition tapped luncheonchair Marilyn Smith, who statedhow honored shewas to chair the luncheon, ahighlight of the spring season; Women of Fashion President Stephanie Burks and board chair Rhonda Pausina Eckholdt;and Men of Fashion Board Chair Leon L. Giorgio Jr.Jenny Hamilton is NOBA’s executive director.Special thanks targeted Avenue magazine; Jeff’s Haberdashery and ChattaBox Boutiquefor the fashion show; Dunn and Sonnier Antiques and Flowers; Lee Michaels for ﬁne jewelryand distinctivegifts; Marilyn and Glen Smith;and the host hotel, Hilton Riverside.

Composing the Prix d’Elegance Committeeaschairmen were Deborah Alciatore,who headedthe fabulous auction, which includedastunninghat worn to the recent Kentucky Derby; Stephen Sonnier (and theabove Dunn andSonnier) forcenterpieces; sisters Marilyn V. Dittmannand Carol V. Hall, Fashion Icon Scholarships; honoree liaison Laurie Guimont;Men of Fashion liaison Melanie Cannatella;and Elizabeth Broekman for rafﬂe sales. Desi Vega’s Steakhouse was thanked for the door prize drawing; LeeMichaelsfor the earlier Champagne Reception; Lee Michaels and Rubenstein’s 100 Yearsfor therafﬂe; andthe Windsor Court for the live auction, which had spearheadingby Gregory Curtis, NOBA chair.The vice chairs are SandraStageChaisson, Monique Gougisha Doucette, Steven A. Friedman, and Cynthia LeBreton. The top sponsors —and there were four categories —were AngelWings Foundation and Cindy Paulin, Dottie Belletto and Pamela Williams, Buck Kreihs Marine Repair,LLC andHon. Jeanne Nunez Juneau, Erin and JP Hymel, PalazzoLaw Firm,Pan American Life Insurance Group, CarlPanebiango,Marilyn and Glen Smith,and Gerri and Murray Valene They and countless others, the crowd appeared to be well over 800 people, savored such luncheon delectables as arugula salad, braised short ribs and mixed berry shortcake. Wine accompanied themeal, as didtea andcoffee. Master of ceremonies Mark Romig opened theprogram, and welcoming words followed by Lee Giorgio, Rhonda Eckholdt, andStephanie Burks. Next in appearance were Marilyn Smith, Marian Gibbs, andJenny Hamilton,who introduced NOBA Center for Dance Students and their performance to“AllThat Jazz” fromthe musical, “Chicago.” The dancers caught every eye in indigo sequinedjackets, black tightsand sassy derby hats. More runway excitement wasgeneratedbythe modelswho showed the Spring 2026 Collections by Jeff’s and ChattaBox andrespectiveproducers Jeff Chouest and Rebecca Nordgren. Several of the male models who saunteredonthe catwalk reached outtothe audience to shake hands. The distaff models made statementsinaseries of fashion scenes.

The busy runway next welcomed the Men and Women of Fashion honorees, who furthered atradition of representingfashionpresenceand community service. As an entity, the Men of Fashion was founded in 1971 and, in 1982, the organization began selecting women, who were formed as the Women of Fashion in 1999. Twoformer awardees, the above Rebecca Nordgren (2015) and Leo Palazzo (2017) were hailed as theHall of Fame Award Recipients.

All eyes were riveted to the stage and runwayfor thesartorialsalutes to the 20 Prix cynosures, whose escorts had been so honored in the past. The 10 women were Lisa Nestor Baudot,Trishelle Cannatella, Krystle Ferbos Duplessis,Anita Hymel (a rafﬂe winner), Judge Jeanne Nunez Juneau, Kaitlin Kelly,SaraLewis, Dr Larissa Littleton-Steib,Lauren Lopinto, and Cindy G. Paulin. The honored men were Steve O.Allen,Larry Berger,Caleb Chafin, Capt. Dee Geoghegan, CharlesHenry, Lamont Hills,William “Bill” Hudson, Gilbert Montaño, Glen Smith,and Gerard Vitrano Jr Kin and kith joined the luncheon legions in applaudingthem.

ACenturyinLakeview

Preceded by apatron partyand Sunset Cocktails, Mount Carmel Academy celebrated aCentennial Soirée at theSouthernYacht Club.The gala leadershipincludedevent cochairs Denise Crespo and Holly Bethay,and respective auction and décor chairs Melissa McEvers and Carrey Britsch. Morethan200 choice items were featured in the silentand liveauctions, which, for the latter,had Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto and parish Councilmanat-Large Scott Walker as auctioneers forthe busy bidding. Lester and Dianne Boihem offered abeachfront stay and Pigeon Catering, adinner foreight, which had, in turn, pleased purchasers Madeleine Escudier and Louis Rodriguez. To honor the academy’s100 years in Lakeview,shades of gold permeated the decorations; Nicole Chauvin of IRIS Florals and Event Design Studioused arrangements of roses and hydrangeas atop pedestals as ﬂoralembellishment; andvintage booksand yearbooks provided anostalgic nod to the celebrated past. So did studentambassadors, whosported uniforms from each decade.

HAPPENINGS!

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DeniseCrespo,Sister

The Southern Yacht Club’s chefs prepared such taste treatsasfried oysters, turtle soup and Beef Wellington, Yum! As acentury salute,Haydel’sBakery donated abeautiful thematic cake. Appreciativepartakersincluded Tiffany and JoeCaldarera, Dottieand Ricky Loupe, Judy and RobertQuinilty,Erica and WesleyRamsey,and Rami Badr andRaquel Zar Also, Elizabeth and Dimitrios Fronistas, Judge Robin and Keith Pittman, Maria andArthur Grundmeyer,Helen and Brian Fish,Andrea and Brian Toomer,Sandraand Ralph Junius,Tori andPatrick O’Hara,Alexandraand Eric Kess,and Gina and Chris Brown. Music made its mark withthe lilting sounds of theMount Carmel Strings Orchestra during the patron party,and then with DatBand, who elicited timelessdance ﬂoor energy

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Seated: Bill Hudson, Kaitlin Kelly;standing:Krystle Duplessis, Lamont Hills, Sara Lewis

Seated: Gerard Vitrano, Anita Hymel,Cindy Paulin, Dee Geoghegan; standing: Trishelle Cannatella,Larry Berger,StevenAllen, Lisa Baudot

Leo Palazzo, Rebecca Nordgren, Glen Smith

Caleb Chafin, Jeanne Juneau, Lauren Lopinto, Larissa Littleton-Steib, Charles Henry

PHOTOSByDENNIS NGUyEN

Camille Campbell, Beth Ann Simno, Holly Bethay

Cheryl and Lee Cabes

CarreyBritsch, Sister LawrenceHabetz Sister MariaSheila Undang

Norman Jr.and Melissa McEvers

GEMInI (May 21-June 20) Assess and follow through. Don't leave what's important to you in someone else's hands. Put pressure where pressure is due, and don't be afraid to move forward alone if necessary.

cAncER (June 21-July 22) Your vision may be expansive, but when it comes to enforcingmodifications,practicalitywill benecessary Basethechangesyouwant to implement on the result, and filter out steps that are financially taxing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Dedicate your time to learning, new experiences and committing to a path that motivates you. Don't let frustration set in when directing your energy is what's necessary.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Plan to socialize, network, or market and promote something you want to pursue. The feedback you get will be more reactive than suggestive. Putting your energy into what you feel most passionate about will pay off.

LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct. 23) Discipline and hard work will change how you think, live and use your attributes. Choosing to do something you enjoy and turning it into additional income is within reach.

ScORPIO (Oct 24-nov 22) Thoughts followed by actions will give you something to celebrate. Your insight and directness willbeappreciated,alongwithyourcompassion for those you love.

SAGITTARIuS (nov. 23-Dec. 21) A diversion or change of scenery will help you gain a unique perspective regarding your options. Make sure your budget can

live up to your demands before you get started.

cAPRIcORn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Don't share unverified information. Ask questions, be observant and base your decisions on facts, figures and having enough time to warrant moving forward with your plans.

AQuARIuS(Jan.20-Feb.19)Ifyoustaytuned in to what you are trying to achieve, you will accomplish more Home improvements will give you a new lease on life and help you put a legitimate plan in place that encourages both emotional and financial strength.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Take a back seat, observe, reflect and delineate your thoughts once you have a grasp on what's unfolding around you Trust your instincts, and be wary of what others say and do.

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FAMILY CIrCUS

TODAy'S cLuE: X EQuALS R

CeLebrItY CIpher

For better or For WorSe

SALLY Forth

beetLe bAILeY

Mother GooSe And GrIMM

SherMAn’S LAGoon

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Sudoku

InstructIons: sudoku is anumber-placing puzzle based on a9x9 grid with several given numbers. Theobject is to place the numbers 1to9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. Thedifficulty level of thesudoku increases from monday to sunday.

Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

THewiZard oF id

BLondie

BaBY BLueS

Hi and LoiS

CurTiS

Bridge

By PHILLIP ALDER

Paul Valery, aFrench poet, essayist andphilosopher whodiedin1945, said, “Every thought is an exception to the general rule thatpeopledon’tthink.”

Perhaps theprimary reason that bridge has remained so popular is that therealwaysseemtobeexceptionstothe “rules” of the game.

When taking afinesse you wish to repeat, oftenyou lead the lowest card that can hold the trick if thefinesse is winning. Then you can immediately repeat it. Butthat is not always the case. In this deal, South is in four spades. West leads alow diamond. East takes thetrick with his10and returns alow diamond. After ruffing, how shoulddeclarer continue?

Southmight have immediately overcalledfour spades, butwondered about aslam. West made anegative double, promising four hearts. East’s double was for takeout; it was atad aggressive,but the singleton spade improved hishand’s value.

South must holdhis losers to one in each side suit. Since West has aclub honor, this requires taking two club finessesand leading towardthe heart king. So, declarer seemstoneed three dummy entries, but he has onlytwo:the spade jack and ace. However, he can do it if he is thoughtful.

wuzzles

Southdrawstrumpsendinginthedummy. Then comes the key play: He must lead the club twoand play hisjack. West winsand leads another diamond. Declarer ruffs,crosses to dummy with a spade, and runs the club nine. Still in the dummy,hecanthenleadaheartuptohis king —missionaccomplished.

Each Wuzzle is awordriddlewhich creates adisguised word, phrase, name, place, saying, etc. For example: nOOn gOOD =gOOD aFTErnOOn

Previous answers:

word game

InSTRucTIOnS: 1. Words must be of fourormore letters. 2. Words that acquire fourletters by the addition of “s,”such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3 additional words made by adding a“d” or an “s” may not be used. 4. proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit wordsare not allowed TODAy’S WORD MyTHIcAL: MITH-ih-kul: Existing only in the imagination.

Average mark24words

Time limit 40 minutes

Can you find 35 or morewords in MYTHICAL?

Bizarro

hagar the horriBle

Pearls Before swiNe garfield

dIrectIons: make a 2- to 7-letter word from the letters in each row. add points of each word, using scoring directions at right. Finally, 7-letter words get 50-point bonus. “Blanks” used as any letter have no point value. all the words are in the Official sCraBBlE® players Dictionary, 5th Edition.

GramS Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

ken ken

InstructIons: 1 Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 thorugh 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) without repeating. 2 The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. 3 Freebies: Fill in the single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner. HErE is a

WiShinG Well

Scrabble

roSe

DuStin Drabble

luann

suanttoLa. Stat.Ann. § 38:2212 X. AMANDATORY PRE-BID

either by mail,handde‐livery or electronic bid, NO LATERTHAN10:00 AM,local time Thursday JUNE 25, 2026,Attn:Julia Fisher Cormier, Sealed BidEnclosed- Port of SouthLouisiana Guest‐houseCriticalRepairs –ProjectNo.

shall fully identify thereasons andthe evidence offered to supportthe protest.

4. At thediscretionofthe Port of SouthLouisiana either an informal hear‐ingwillbeconducted or adecisiononthe protest will be issued within three(3) workingdaysof receivingthe protest. Disqualiﬁcation of apo‐tentialbidderorasthe lowbidderongrounds that such bidder is not a “responsible bidder shallbeconducted pur‐

MAYOR Publish: May20, May27 andJune 3, 2026. 187835-may20-27-june 33t $ PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO PROPOSERS LEASEPROPOSALNUM‐BERRL-957 In accordance with La R.S. 39:1644, theState of Louisiana, Division of Ad‐

are hereby asking forsealed proposalsfrompublish‐ersqualified to be se‐lected as the Official Journal forthe City of Gretna,Louisiana forthe period ofJuly1,2026,to June 30,2027. Thedeadlinefor the submittalofproposals by publisherswillbe Fri‐day, June 5, 2026, until 10:00 AM localtime. Pro‐posals maybemailed priortothatdateto: City of Gretna Office of theMayor P. O. Box404 Gretna,LA70054 or maybedelivered to Gretna City Hall,atten‐tion of Mayor’sOffice Staff, at 740 Second Street,GretnaCityHall, Gretna,LA70053. Copy of BidSpecifica‐tionsmay be obtained by contacting theCityClerk at ncruz@gretnala.com CITY OF GRETNA LOUISIANA /S/ BELINDA C. CONSTANT

period of SIXTY (60) days from thedate due. Each offerermustcontrol theofferedproperty, in‐cludingparking areas, at thetimeofsubmission by ownership, leasehold or purchase agreement. At thetimeofsubmis‐sion,the property of‐feredmustmeet allzon‐ingrequirementsfor the intended use. TheDivisionofAdminis‐trationreservesthe right to reject anyand allpro‐posals upon writtende‐termination that such ac‐tion is takeninthe best interest of theState Theprice forspace of‐feredwillinclude allutili‐ties such as electricity, gas,water,sewer,septic k i d g p tank service dumpster fortrash/garbage,and cost forpickupand dis‐posaloftrash/garbage andcompletejanitorial services includingre‐stroom,kitchen and cleaning supplies. Only proposalssubmit‐ted on the“Proposal for Negotiations” form shall be considered.Proposals submittedonany other format shallbeconsid‐ered non-responsive.The proposal form maybe found at:https://www

TOWN OF JEAN LAFITTELEGALS

or mailed to thePortofSouth Louisianaatthe abovenamedaddressmarked: Attention: JuliaFisher Cormier, ExecutiveDirec‐tor, “AsNeeded/OnCall” FEMA GrantManagement andAdministrationSer‐vicesorsubmitted elec‐tronically at www.central bidding.combynolater than Tuesday, July 7, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. CentralTime. ThePortofSouth Louisianareservesthe righttocancelthe solici‐tation or reject anyand allproposals Port of SouthLouisiana JuliaFisher- Cormier ExecutiveDirector 189309-jun3-10-17-3t $104.89 cancy. Kriss Fairbairn-Fortunato School BoardPresident 189791-JUN3-5-3T $83 PUBLIC NOTICE TheLouisiana Ofﬁce of theState Museum is re‐questing proposalsfor a Public-Private Partner‐ship projecttodesign, build, furnish, operate, andmaintainanin‐door/outdoor café at the NewOrleans Jazz Mu‐seum.For more informa‐tion go to opportuni‐tiesinlouisiana.com. 188284-MAY21-JUN16 $139

PUBLIC NOTICE

TheJefferson Parish School Boardisseeking applicants who meet the qualificationsofthe of‐fice to fill avacancy for theunexpired term of theresigning member in School BoardDistrict9 This vacancywas caused by theresignation of the School BoardMemberof that District,which unex‐piredtermbeginsonthe date of selectionofthe applicantto fill theva‐cancyand ends on De‐cember 31, 2026. Appli‐cantsmustbeatleast 18 yearsold,abletoread andwrite,possess ahigh school diplomaorits equivalent as deter‐minedbyBESE, have residedinLouisiana for thepreceding 2years andhavebeen actually domiciledfor thepreced‐ingyearinDistrict9 from which appointmentis sought Applications from those who meet theabove qualificationsinterested in fillingthe vacancyin District 9willbereceived at theOffice of theChief of HumanResources,501 ManhattanBlvd.,Harvey, La beginningJune3 2026 andmustbere‐ceived therenolater than June 8, 2026 at noon Applicants should sub‐mita letter of interest a resume,proof of resi‐dency, an emailaddress anda telephonenumber as part of theapplication to Donna Joseph,Chief of HumanResources,either by hand delivery during business hoursat501 ManhattanBlvd.,Harvey, La.orbyemail at donna. joseph@jpschools.org or by Faxat(504) 349-7726. Public interviews by the School Boardwillbeheld at aSpecial Sessionof theBoard on Thursday June 11, 2026 at 1p.m., at theAdministrationBuild‐ing, 501 ManhattanBlvd. Harvey,La. Applicants will be given 15 minutes fora presentation,fol‐lowingwhich presenta‐tion from allapplicants theSchoolBoard will vote to select oneofthe applicants to fill theva‐

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TheOrleans Parish School Boardshall facili‐tate aPublicHearing on theproposedbudget Thursday,June 4, 2026, at 4:30 P.M.,2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite1050, New Orleans, LA 70114. 187194 May20, 27, June 3, 3t $57.20

y MotonLakefront Elemen‐tary.A physical copy of the2026-2027 budget is availableat10001 Lake Forest Blvd Suite710, NewOrleans,LA70127. 186911-may9-aug27 $956

ACERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,BEAR‐INGMUNCIPAL NUMBER:1614 OPELOUSASAV‐ENUE,IN THEMATTEREN‐TITLED:WILM‐INGTON SAV‐INGS FUND SO‐CIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEEOF STANWICH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUSTI VERSUS IVY WILSON TER‐

ANDBEAU BRADLEYTER‐RELL

S Case No: 2019-13330

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court

ARESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS($225,000,000) NEW ORLEANS AVIATION BOARD DRAW-DOWN BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES IN ORDER TO FINANCE ADDITIONAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AT THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS TO FINANCE THE SAME; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTIONTHEREWITH.

$86.20 Public Notices Meet/Hear/Min

NOTICE

ReNEW-ReinventingEdu‐cation will introducethe 2026-27 budget andhold its ﬁrstpublichearing on the2026-27 budget on May14, 2026 at 5:30 pm at EdgarP Harney Build‐inglocated at 2503 Wil‐lowSt.,New Orleans, LA 70113 (LAR.S.39:1307) ReNEW-ReinventingEdu‐cation is thecharter school management or‐ganization operating ReNEWLaurelElemen‐tary,ReNEW DoloresT AaronElementary, ReNEWSchaumburgEle‐mentary,and ReNEW k f l NOT ICE SALE OF STATE-OWNED LAND

Sealed bids forthis sale of State-owned land will be received by theLouisiana Department of Transportation andDevelopment, Real Estate Section, 1201 Capitol Access Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802until 4:15 P.M. the day beforethe letting date, after which time bidswill be received in the DOTD HQ Auditorium,

LAROSE –LAFITTTE (PAILET CANAL –JCT LA 303)

Parcel 2-16 in its entirety,including any improvements, being an irregularly shaped parcel of land located in Township 15 South, Range 23 East, Section 22, SoutheasternLand District, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana,containing approximately 1.183 acres.

Foradditional information please contact: Brandi.Newman@la.gov or 225-242-4579

Bidforms may be found at: http://wwwsp.dotd.la.gov/Inside_LaDOTD/Divisions/Engineering/ Real Estate/Pages/Bid_Booklet.aspx Payment for each item shall be enclosed with the bid. The right is reserved to reject bids and waive informalities. 186062-643255-MAY27-JUN 3-2T $142.60

WHEREAS,the New Orleans AviationBoard(the “Board”) through its BoardofCommissioners (the Commissioners”) is charged with the administration, operation, and maintenance of the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (the Airport”) pursuant to Article V, Chapter 6, Section5-602 of the Home RuleCharter of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana (the City”); and WHEREAS,Part XIV of Chapter 4ofSubtitle II of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, particularly La. R.S. 39:1034 (D) and (F), together with the other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto, including without limitation, the provisions of Chapter 13 of Subtitle III of Title 39, including La. R.S. 39:1430 and the provisions of Chapter 14-A of Title 39 (La. R.S. 39:1444 through 1456, inclusive) of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended (collectively,the Act”), authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds by the Boardinits own name payableout of the income, revenues and receipts derived or to be derived from the properties or facilities administered, maintained or operated by the Board, subject to the approval of such issuance by the Council of the City (the Council”); and WHEREAS,the following designated general airport revenue bonds and subordinate obligations have been issued and areoutstanding pursuant to the provisions of that General Revenue Bond Trust Indenture dated as of February 1, 2009 (the General Indenture”) among the Board, the City,and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company,N.A., (the Trustee”) as amended by their applicable Supplemental Indentures and remainoutstanding as follows: (i) Series 2017 Bonds”issued pursuant to aThirdSupplemental Indenturedated as of May1,2017 (the ThirdSupplemental Indenture”); (ii) Series 2019 Bonds”issued pursuant to aFifth Supplemental Indenturedated as of December 1, 2019 (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”); (iii) “Series 2023 Bonds”issued pursuant to aSeventh Supplemental Trust Indenturedated as of April, 2023 (the Seventh Supplemental Indenture); (iv) Draw-Down Bond Anticipation NoteSeries 2024”(the Series 2026 Note”) issued pursuant to an Eight Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 1, 2024 (the EighthSupplemental Indenture”); (v) Series 2024 Bonds”issued pursuant to aNinth Supplemental Indenturedated as of November 1, 2024 (the Ninth Supplemental Indenture”); (vi) New Orleans Aviation BoardGeneral Airport Revenue Interim Drawdown Note(AMT) (North Terminal Project)Series 2025” issued pursuant to aTenth Supplemental Indenturedated as of September 1, 2025 (the Tenth Supplemental Indenture”); WHEREAS,the AviationBoardadopted on November 20, 2025 the following Bond authorization resolution in connection with the proposed issuance of general airport revenue bonds: RESOLUTION PROVIDING PRELIMINARYAPPROVAL AND AUTHORIZATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED THREE HUNDRED MILLIONDOLLARS($300,000,000) OF NEW ORLEANS AVIATION BOARD REVENUE AND REFUNDING BONDS IN ONE OR MORE SERIES TO PAY OFF AND DISCHARGE THE SERIES 2024 BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES; TO FINANCE ADDITIONAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AT THE LOUIS ARMSTRONGNEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. and WHEREAS,the Council of the City of New Orleans adopted Resolution No.R-25-605 adopted on December 4, 2025 approving not to exceed $300,000,000 of New Orleans AviationBoardRevenue and Refunding Bonds (the Bonds”) in one or moreseries to pay and discharge the Series 2024 Bond AnticipationNotes (the Series 2024 Note”) and to pay for the costs of the Additional Capital Improvements at the Airport; and WHEREAS,the Board’sFinancial Advisor recommends adelay in the sale and issuance of the Bonds and, priortothe delivery of the

forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue, in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 1614 OPELOUSASAV‐ENUE LOTT SQUARE 109 FIFTHMUNICI‐PALDISTRICT ACQUIRED CIN 586126 WRIT AMOUNT: $145,523.96

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐

be derived from the properties or facilitiesadministered, maintained, or operated by the Boardatthe Airport or such portion of such revenues determined by the Boardina supplementalsaleresolution.

SECTION 3. Upon issuanceofthe Series 2026 Notes, Original Expenditures will be reimbursedfroma portion of the proceeds of the Series 2026 Notesduring the reimbursement period as described in UnitedStatesTreasury Department Regulations, Section 1.150-2(d)(2).

SECTION 4.Application is hereby made to the Louisiana State BondCommission for consent, authority,and approvalofthe Series 2026 Notes. By virtue of the Board’sapplication for,acceptance, and utilization of the benefits of the Louisiana State BondCommission’s approval(s) resolved andset forth herein, the Boardresolvesthatit understands andagrees thatsuchapproval(s) areexpresslyconditioned upon, anditfurtherresolvesthatitunderstands, agrees andbinds itself, its successors andassigns to, full andcontinuing compliancewith the “State BondCommission PolicyonApproval of ProposedUse of Swaps, or otherforms of Derivative Products Hedges, Etc.”, adopted by the Commission on July 20, 2006, as to the borrowing(s) andothermatter(s) subject to the approval(s), including subsequent application andapproval undersaidPolicyofthe implementation or use of anyswap(s) or other product(s) or enhancement(s) covered thereby

SECTION 5.Inorder to satisfy the “Public Approval” requirementof Section 147(f) of the Code with respect to the Series 2026 Noteswhich maybeissued as qualified airport private activity tax-exempt bonds, the Boardwill cause apublic hearing to be held to affordall interested individuals areasonable opportunity to express their views, both orally andinwriting, concerning the intention of the Boardtoissue the Series 2026 Notes. The Director of Aviation, or in his absence anyproper officer of the Boardishereby authorized, empowered, anddirected to (i) execute andpublish one or moreofa NoticeofPublic Hearing regarding the Intention to Issuethe Series 2026 Notesand aNoticeofPublic Hearing in the formapprovedbyBond Counsel, in the Times-Picayune, adaily newspaper published in andofgeneral circulation in the City and (ii) conductone or moresuchpublic hearings on datesand timesand at places to be selected by said officer with the concurrenceofBond Counselasmay be required underthe circumstances.

SECTION 6. Acopy of this resolution shall be published as soon as possible afterits adoption in the official journalofthe Board. For a period of thirty (30) days from the date of such publication anypersonin interest shall have the righttocontest the legality of this resolution and of the Series 2026 Notestobeissued pursuant hereto andthe provisions securing the Series 2026 Notes. Afterthe expiration of said thirty (30) days, no one shall have anyright of action to contest the validity of the Series 2026 Notesorthe provisions of this resolution, andSeries 2026 Notesshall be conclusively presumedtobelegal andno courtshall thereafterhave authority to inquire into such matters.

SECTION 7.The prior selection of ButlerSnow LLP as Bond Counseltothe Aviation Boardinaccordance with the prior request for qualifications for BondCounseland evaluations of the responses thereto arehereby ratified. Further, the Commissioners do hereby ratify the retention of Auzenne &Associates, L.L.C.,asSL-DBE BondCounselfor the Aviation Board. SECTION 8.The Boardhereby formally requests of the City Council thatitadopt aresolution approving the issuance, sale, anddelivery of

Absent Recused Hon. Michael G. Bagneris, Chairman ✓ J. DouglasThornton, ViceChairman ✓ Hon. Neil C. Abramson ✓ James Williams ✓ Octave J. “Todd” Francis III ✓ Ruth Kullman ✓ Roger H. Ogden ✓ Gary L.

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans

GH 11

HALLIDAY, WATKINS& MANN P.C. AT‐

TORNEYSAT LAW318-3881440

KRISTY MASSEY FINLEY

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026

jun3-jul 8-2t

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue, in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, TOGETHER WITH ALLTHE BUILD‐INGS AN IMPROVEMENTS THEREON,AND ALLTHE RIGHTS WAYS,PRIVI‐LEGES, SERVI‐TUDES

ANDADVAN‐TAGESTHERE‐UNTO,BELONG‐INGORINANY‐WISE APPER‐TAINING, SITUATED IN THE FIFTHDIS‐TRTICT,CITYOF NEWORLEANS, PARISH OF OR‐LEANS, STATEOF LOUISIANA, IN THAT PART THEREOF KNOWNAS HUNTLEEVIL‐LAGE SUBDIVISION, SECTION“D” IN ACCORDANCE WITH SURVEY OF ADLOEORR, JR. & ASSOCIATES, C.E.,DATED MARCH13, 1963 ACCORDINGTO SURVEY OF R. L. SCHUMANN & ASSOCIATES, LAND SURVEY‐ORS, DATED SEPTEMBER5, 1974, THE LOT IS FURTHERDE‐SCRIBEDAS FOLLOWS: LOT43, SQUARE 25, WHICHSAID SQUARE IS BOUNDEDBY KENCOURT, HUNTLEE DRIVE, ERKISON STREET (SIDE), BERKLEYDRIVE (SIDE),AND SOMERSET DRIVE (SIDE),AND THE SAID LOT43 COMMENCESAT ADISTANCEOF 120.00 FEET FROM THE CORNER OF HUNTLEEDRIVE ANDKEN COURT ANDMEASURES THENCE AFIRST FORNTAGE ON KENCOURT OF 32.67 FEET, THENCE ASEC‐ONDFRONTAGE ON KEN COURTOF27.39 FEET,A FIRST WIDTHACROSS THEREAROF 32.67 FEET, THENCE A SECOND WIDTH OF 27.56 FEET, BY ADEPTH OF 118.36 FEET ALONGTHE SIDE LINE NEARER TO HUNTLEEDRIVE, BY ADEPTH OF 118.36 FEET ALONGTHE SIDE LINE NEARER TO HUNTLEE DRIVE, BY ADEPTH OF 116.85 FEET ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE LINE.

IMPROVEMENTS THEREONBEAR MUNICIPAL NO 4818 KEN

COURT, NEWOR‐LEANS, LA 70131

WRIT AMOUNT:

$208,444.98

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS -CASH. Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans GH 8 HALLIDAY WATKINS & MANN P.C. AT‐TORNEYSAT LAW318 388 1440

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026 jun3-jul 8-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 25 CHRISTOPHER COURT, THIS CITY,IN THEMATTEREN‐TITLED:FREE‐DOMMORT‐GAGE CORPORA‐TION VERSUS RODNEY J. RI‐CARD,DEIDRA RICARD LOPEZ A/K/ADEIDRAR LOPEZA/K/A DEIDRA LOPEZ, KEVINJOSEPH RICARD A/K/A KEVINJ.RICARD A/K/AKEVIN RI‐CARD ANDROD‐NEYANTHONY RICARD A/K/A RODNEY A. RI‐CARD A/K/A RODNEYRICARD CI VI L DI ST RI

Case No: 2025-1037

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of

Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue, in theFirst Dis‐

trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: ACERTAIN LOT OR PORTIONOF

NOTICE OF REQUESTFOR PROPOSALS (RFP)

VideoSurveillance Responder Vessels (“Project”)

ThePORTofSouth Louisiana (“PORT”)issolicitingcompetitive proposals from qualified responsible Proposers for Video Surveillance Responder Vessels. PORTwill receive sealed proposals for that purpose, until Wednesday,June 24, 2026, by 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time (CST),( Submission Deadline”). Proposals not received by PORTas of theSubmission Deadlinewill not be consideredresponsive and will not be opened. Proposals not meetingspecified delivery and methods of submittalwill not be consideredresponsive and will not be opened. Proposals received via facsimile (fax), or electronicmail(e-mail) shall not be considered. PORTreserves therighttoextend theSubmission Deadlinebyissuing an Addendum.Proposers shall refertothe RFP documents for detaileddeliverables.

Thepurpose of this RFP is to solicit competitive proposals from qualified Proposers for theprocurement and installation of two(2) highperformance pan-tilt-zoom cameras and two(2) fixed cameras for deck monitoringonthe two(2) Responder Vessels, alongwith therequired network infrastructuretoenablereal-time connectivity to thePOSL network for monitoringatthe MSOC.

Port of South Louisiana has been awarded Port Security GrantNumber EMW-2024-PU-05225 from theDepartment of Homeland Security (“DHS”) Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) Port Security Grant Program (“PSGP”) for FY2024 which will partially be funding the products and services to be provided by Proposer to PORTpursuant to this RFP.Proposerwill comply with allapplicable local,state,and federal law, regulations, executive orders, FEMA policies, procedures, directives, and thefollowing:

•2 CFR Part 200 –Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for FederalAwards,

•Appendix II to Part 200 –Contract Provisionsfor Non-Federal Entity ContractsUnder FederalAwards

•FEMA Procurement Disaster Assistance Team (PDAT) FIELD MANUAL

•The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) NoticeofFunding Opportunity (NOFO) Fiscal Year 2024 Port Security Grant Program|FEMA.gov

•Fiscal Year 2024 Preparedness GrantsManual (fema.gov)

•GPD IB No. 400 FEMA’s Implementation of 2C.F.R. Part 200, the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for FederalAwards(“Super Circular” or “Omni Circular”

•Section 889(b) of theJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Actfor Fiscal Year 2019 (FY2019 NDAA),Pub. L. No. 115-232 (2018), as implemented through 2C.F.R. §200.216 and FEMA Policy#405-143-1, ProhibitionsonExpending FEMA AwardFunds for CoveredTelecommunicationsEquipment or Services (Interim) applies to this RFP

•List of Equipment and Services CoveredbySection 2ofthe Security and Trusted CommunicationsNetwork Act

•FEMA InterimPolicy#207-22-0001- Build America, Buy America Act(BABAA)

•44CFR Part 7, Title VI Civil Rights Act 1964

Proposals aresubject to allterms, conditions, and provisions of this document, including Affirmative Action,Equal Employment Opportunity, and Build America Buy America Act(BABAA) regulations. Proposers shall read and understand therequirementsofthisRFP

Theinformation contained in this proposalcontainsSensitive Security Information as ident fied in 49 CFR Part 15 –Protection of Sensitive Security Information.Therefore, thePORTrequiresaMutual NonDisclosure Agreement (MNDA)tobeexecuted prior to receiving the RFP Proposer’smay pick up acopy of theMNDAatthe PORT’sAdministrative Office at 1720 Louisiana Highway 44, Reserve, LA 70084, download the MNDA from www.centralbidding.com or request acopy at bids@portsl. comonorbefore Thursday,June 4, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. No MNDA will be executed by the Port after Friday,June 5, 2026.

ThePort will forwardthe RFP and any Addendumsupon receipt of fully executed MNDA.PORTreserves therighttomodify allorany of thesame at any time prior to theSubmission Deadlinethrough an Addendum AProposer will be selected through aqualification-basedselection process. Proposers interested in providing services must submit a Statement of Qualifications(SOQ) that addresses theevaluation criteria defined in theRFP.Information included within theSOQ maybeused to evaluateyour firm as part of any criteria regardless of wherethat information is found within theSOQ. Information obtained from theSOQ

2026 On the motionofMr. Carubba,secondedbyMr. Marsiglia, the following resolution was offered: BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED,that theSoutheast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East approves theminutes of the Board Meeting held on May 12, 2026. The foregoing was submittedtoavote; the vote thereonwas as follows: YEAS: Mr.Vicari, Mr.Carubba,Mr. Marsiglia, Mr.Martin, Mr King, Mr.Schumann, Mr.Meyers NAYS: None ABSENT:None

OPENING COMMENTS BY PRESIDENT AND COMMISSIONERS PUBLIC COMMENTS: None

PRESENTATIONS:Colonel Autin, Corp of Engineers REPORTBYREGIONAL DIRECTOR

COMMITTEE REPORTS: FinanceCommittee NEW BUSINESS:

RESOLUTION NO. 05-21-26-03 -ADOPTION OF EAST

JEFFERSON LEVEEDISTRICT MILLAGE RATE FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2026 On the motion of Mr.Martin,seconded by Mr.Carubba,the following resolution was offered:

BE IT RESOLVED,bythe Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority– East on behalf of theEast Jefferson Levee District of Jefferson Parish,Louisiana, in apublic meeting held on Thursday,May 21, 2026 which meeting was conducted in accordance with theOpen MeetingsLaw and the additional requirementsofArticle VII, Section 23(C) of the LouisianaConstitution andR.S. 47:1705(B), that the following adjusted millagerate be and it

GROUND,TO‐GETHER WITH ALLTHE BUILD‐INGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALLRIGHTS, WAYS,PRIVI‐LEGES, SERVI‐TUDES, APPURTE‐

NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTOBE‐LONGINGORIN ANYWISE APPERTAINING SITUATED IN THETHIRD DIS‐TRICTOFNEW ORLEANS, STATE OF

LOUISIANA, IN CHRISTOPHER COURTSUBDIVI‐SION,ACCORD‐INGTOPLANOF UNIVERSALEN‐GINEERS, INC., DATEDDECEM‐BER14, 1978, APPROVED BY THECITY

and from any other relevant source may be used in the evaluation and selectionprocess.

The foregoing was submitted to avote; the vote thereon was as follows: YEAS: Mr.Vicari, Mr.Carubba, Mr.Marsiglia, Mr.Martin, Mr King, Mr.Schumann, Mr.Meyers NAYS: None ABSENT:None

RESOLUTION NO. 05-21-26-02 -APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD MEETING HELD ON MAY12,

adopted by the following votes:

YEAS: Mr.Vicari, Mr.Carubba,Mr. Marsiglia, Mr.Martin, Mr King, Mr.Schumann, Mr.Meyers NAYS: None

ABSTAINED: None

ABSENT:None

RESOLUTION NO. 05-21-26-04 –ADOPTION OF THE EAST JEFFERSON LEVEE DISTRICT MILLAGE RATE FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2026

On themotion of Mr.Martin, seconded by Mr.Carubba, the following resolution was offered: BE IT RESOLVED, by theSoutheast LouisianaFlood

Protection Authority –East on behalf of theEast Jefferson Levee District of Jefferson Parish,Louisiana, in apublic meeting held on May 21, 2026, which meetingwas conductedinaccordance withthe Open Meetings Law and theadditional requirementsofArticle VII, Section 23(C) of theLouisiana Constitution andR.S. 47:1705(B), that the taxingdistrict votedtoincrease the millage rate, but not in excess of theprior year’smaximumrate, on all taxable propertyshown on theofficial assessmentroll forthe year 2026, and when collected, therevenues fromsaid taxes shall be used only forthe specificpurposesfor which saidtaxes have been levied.Said millagerate(s)are: Adjusted Rate 2026 Levy Constitutional (General) Tax3.82 mills 4.01 mills

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that theAssessorofthe Parish of Jefferson, shall extend upon theassessment roll forthe year 2026 the taxes herein levied,and the tax collector of said Parish shall collect and remit thesame to saidtaxing authorityinaccordancewith law

The foregoingresolution wasread in full, theroll was called on theadoption thereof, and theresolution was adopted by no lessthan two-thirds of thetotal membership of thetaxing authority voting in favorasrequired by ArticleVII, Section 23(C) of theLouisiana Constitution and R.S. 47:1705(B).

Thevotes were: YEAS: Mr.Vicari, Mr.Carubba,Mr. Marsiglia, Mr.Martin, Mr King, Mr.Schumann, Mr.Meyers

NAYS: None

ABSTAINED: None ABSENT:None

RESOLUTION NO. 05-21-26-05 -APPROVALOF2026 COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENTPLAN On themotion of Mr.Martin, seconded by Mr.Meyers, the following resolution was offered: WHEREAS,LAR.S. 38:319, mandates that theBoardof Commissioners of each Levee District prepare awritten procedures manual to be used during periods of emergencytofacilitate theimmediate and orderly actions of each board during an emergency; and WHEREAS,incompliance with theaforementioned statute, theSoutheast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (FPA) staffprepared the2026 Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP). BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED,that the FPAadoptsthe 2026 Comprehensive Emergency

leans RB 20 MCCABE LAW FIRM,LLC 504782-3436

RYAN MCCABE

TheN.O.Advo‐

cate Date (s):

6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026 jun3-jul 8-2t

2026-1197

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil DistrictCourt forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 4743 WARREN DR NEWOR‐LEANS, LA 70127 LOT15- SQUARE 2 3RDMUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQMIN: 1337305 LAKELAND ACRES WRIT AMOUNT: $118,411.17

abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans

RB 29

THELAW OF‐FICESOFHER‐SCHELC.AD‐COCK,JR.,L.L.C (225) 756-0373

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBERS2049 HALSEY AV‐ENUE,CITYOF NEW ORLEANS, IN THEMATTEREN‐TITLED:ONPATH FEDERALCREDIT UNIONVERSUS ANGELA DIAZ CRUZ AND THEUNOPENED SUCCESSIONOF CARLOS ES‐PINALCASTEL‐LANOS

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2025-11245

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: TWOLOTSOF GROUND,TO‐GETHER WITH ALLTHE BUILD‐INGS ANDIM‐PROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALLOFTHE RIGHTS,WAYS,

PRIVILEGES, SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTOBE‐LONGINGORIN ANYWISE APPERTAINING SITUATED IN THEPARISHOF ORLEANSINTHE FIFTHDISTRICT OF THECITYOF NEWORLEANS IN BEHRMAN HEIGHTSSUBDI‐VISION,WHICH LOTS ARE DESIGNATED AS LOT15AND 16, SQUARE 5, BOUNDEDBY HALSEY AV‐ENUE,WALL STREET,COPER‐NICUSSTREET ANDTHE WEST BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID SUBDIVISIONON APLANOR ADLOEORR, C.E. DATEDJUNE1, 1948, APRINT OF WHICH

IS ANNEXEDTO AN ACTBEFORE J.L. WARREN WOODVILLE, NOTARY,JOHN‐STON TO FOX. DATEDNO‐VEMBER 17, 1952, ANDAC‐CORDINGTO WHICHSAID LOTS 15 AND16, SQUARE 5, AD‐JOIN EACH OTHERAND MEASUREEACH 25 FEET FRONT ON HALSEY AVENUE,AND EQUALWIDTH IN THEREAR, BY A DEPTHBE‐TWEEN EQUAL AND PARALLEL LINES OF 150 FEET.ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH SURVEY BY JOSEPH KREITERJR. C.E. DATEDOCTOBER 6, 1984. AC‐CORDINGTO SAID SURVEY, LOT16 LIES NEARER TO ANDCOM‐

MENCES AT A DISTANCE OF 200 FEET FROM THECOMER OF HALSEY AV‐ENUE AND COPERNICUS STREET.TAX PARCEL NO 513707020

THEIMPROVE‐MENTS THEREONBEAR THEMUNICIPAL NO.2049 HALSEY AV‐ENUE, NEWORLEANS, LA 70114

WRIT AMOUNT: $225,134.54

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication tomakea de‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 5708 WILTON DR NEWORLEANS LA 70122 LOT22- SQUARE 2 3RDMUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQMIN: 1295560 BURBABKGAR‐DENS SUBDIVI‐SION WRIT AMOUNT: $68,370.97

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans RB 34 WHITLOWLAW FIRM,LLC SHARON S. WHITLOW

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans

RB 26

THELAW OF‐FICESOFHER‐SCHELC.AD‐COCK,JR. LLC (225) 756-0373

DENNISF WIG‐GINS

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026

jun3-jul 8-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 4446 ARTHUR DR, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THEMATTEREN‐TITLED:LAKE‐VIEW LOAN SER‐VICING LLCVER‐SUSTINA MARIE POWELL A/K/A TINA M. POWELL A/K/ATINA POWELL

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2025-2119

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026 jun3-jul 8-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 7809 MERCIER STREET,THIS CITY,IN THEMATTEREN‐TITLED:BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. VERSUS CLINTONHILL

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2024-6383

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue, in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 7809 MERCIER ST NEWOR‐LEANS, LA 70128 LOTS:31AND 32, SQUARE 70 THIRDMUNICI‐PALDISTRICT ACQMIN: 1400151 EDGELAKE SUB‐DIVISION WRIT AMOUNT: $171,313.97

Joseph P. Lopinto, III in his capacity as SheriffofJeffersonParish, hereby notifies his intent to donate, auction, retain or destroyunclaimed property in accordance with JP Ordinance 31-8unless otherwise claimed by the owner within 30 days of publication of this notice.

Property may be claimed by contacting the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Propertyand Evidence Division, located at 1801 West Bank Expressway,Harvey,LA70058, or by calling 504-376-2384. Allclaimants must provide proof of ownershipbeforeany property may be released.

Item #Description

A-03937-25 Clothes, Puzzles, Paper

A-09901-25 Element TV,SN: A1300228120033424

A-17013-25 Dynex TV,SN: 2004LC26KS70H21920

B-03028-25 Orange Basket

B-13794-25 Coolers, Cots, Clothes, Basket Blankets, Towels, Fan

E-08558-25 Silber/Blue Scooter,Black/Red Scooter

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026 jun3-jul 8-2t PUBLIC NOTICE JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’SOFFICE

Owner

Found

Dana Jackson

B-09023-25 DuffleBag, Clothes, Shoes, First AidFound

Chacyee/ Jaycee Hayes

E-15472-25 Toys, Games, HotWheels, Model Trains, Coffee Table Anthony Phillips

F-04574-25 Clothes

F-11814-25 Cash Register Found

F-15857-24 Insignia TV,SN: 3826G15280522

F-17072-25 Backpack, Clothes, Cologne, Bat

G-14222-25 Various Merchandise/Clothes

G-15251-25 AmareAir Rifle, Backpack, Pens, Tape Found

PUBLIC NOTICE

SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 4743 WARRENDR, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THEMATTEREN‐TITLED:NEWREZ LLCVERSUS GREGORYO LEWIS, JR. A/K/A GREGORY LEWIS, JR.

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No:

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans GH 22 NEWMAN, MATHIS,BRADY &SPEDALE, APLC 225 343 3456 JOSHUA P. MATTHEWS

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026

G-24109-25 Backpacks, First Aid, Toiletries, Military Insignia,Stove,Radio Matthew Wright

H-12689-25 Rear BumperPart,License Plate Gary Milhet

H-16809-24 Clothes, Toiletries, Tools, Tool Box, Jack Stands, Fishing Poles, Tree Trimmer Found

H-19190-25 Child Electric Four-Wheeler Found

I-01819-25 Gamo PelletGun, SN: 04-1C103171-19 Found

I-02096-25 Black Safe Found

I-03250-25 Docker Bag/Suitcase David Vandermeyden

I-12070-25 Wood Stickwith Screws Mark Margarejo

I-12524-24 Orange Dolly,Meade Telescope Base Found I-13001-25 Black Bag, ClothesBria Chatman

J-14486-24 PillarLockRifleCase Found J-20878-25 Purple/Black Duffel Bag, Clothes, Suitcase Found K-04355-25 TCL TV,SN: 1709GTC001854A03431 Found K-11562-24 Dewalt Jump Starter,Power Inverters, Buffer,Air Compressor Tools, Camera, Speakers, Sunglasses Thomas Sciortino

K-16710-24 Clothes, ShoesJeremiah Champagne L-04205-25 OuutmeeCase, Vehicle Vinyl Tape Found L-04721-25 MacheteFound L-09938-24 Air Compressor James Maes L-14273-24 Green Seabag,Clothes, Toiletries, Bags Mardell Fleury

189332-653536-jun 3-1t $138.60

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue, in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 4446 ARTHUR DR NEWORLEANS, LA 70127 LOT23- SQUARE 2 3RDMUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQMIN: 1374231 CASTLE MANOR SUBDIVISION WRIT AMOUNT: $135,484.69 Seized in the

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans

GH 9

HALLIDAY, WATKINS& MANN P.C. AT‐TORNEYSAT LAW318-3881440 ASHLEY E. MOR‐RIS

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026 jun3-jul 8-2t

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED THREE HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION ($350,000,000) OF NEW ORLEANS AVIATION BOARD REFUNDING BONDS IN ONE OR MORE SERIES TO REFUND THE OUTSTANDING SERIES 2017 GENERAL AIRPORTREVENUE BONDS; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. WHEREAS,the New Orleans AviationBoard(the “Aviation Board”) through its BoardofCommissioners (the Commissioners”) is charged with the administration, operation and maintenance of the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (the Airport”) pursuant to Article V, Chapter 6, Section5-602 of the Home RuleCharter of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana (the “City”); and WHEREAS,Part XIV of Chapter 4ofSubtitle II of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, particularly La. R.S. 39:1034 (D) and (F), together with the other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto, including without limitation, the provisions of Chapter 13 of Subtitle III of Title 39, including La. R.S. 39:1430 and the provisions of Chapter 14-A of Title 39 (La. R.S. 39:1444 through 1456, inclusive) of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended (collectively,the Act”), authorize the issuance of revenue bonds by the AviationBoardinits own name payableout of the income, revenues, and receipts derived or to be derived from the properties or facilities administered, maintained, or operated by the AviationBoard, subject to the approval of such issuance by the Council of the City (the “Council”); and WHEREAS,the following designated general airport revenue bonds have been issued by the Aviation Boardpursuant to the provisions of that General Revenue Bond Trust Indenturedated as of February 1, 2009 (the General Indenture”) among the Board, the City,and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company,N.A., (the Trustee”) as amended by their applicable Supplemental Indentures and remainoutstanding as follows: (i) Series 2017 Bonds”issued pursuant to aThirdSupplemental Indenturedated as of May1,2017 (the ThirdSupplemental Indenture”); (ii) Series 2019 Bonds”issued pursuant to aFifth Supplemental Indenturedated as of December 1, 2019 (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”); (iii) “Series 2023 Bonds”issued pursuant to aSeventh Supplemental Trust Indenture dated as of April, 2023 (the Seventh Supplemental Indenture); and (iv) Draw-Down Bond Anticipation Notes Series 2024”(the Series 2024 BANS”) issued pursuant to an Eight Supplemental Indenturedated as of February 1, 2024 (the Eighth Supplemental Indenture”); and (v) Series 2024 Bonds”issued pursuant to aNinth Supplemental Indenturedated as of November 1, 2024 (the Ninth Supplemental Indenture”); (vi) New Orleans Aviation BoardGeneral Airport Revenue Interim Drawdown Note (AMT) (North Terminal Project) Series 2025”issued pursuant to aTenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 1, 2025 (the Tenth Supplemental Indenture”); and (vii) Draw-Down Bond Anticipation Note(Additional Capital Improvements) Series 2026”issued pursuant to an Eleventh Series Supplemental Indenturedated as of July 1, 2026 (the EleventhSupplemental Indenture”); WHEREAS,the AviationBoardhas been advised by its Financial Advisor,Frasca &Associates, Inc.,that the Series 2017 Bonds may be currently refunded within ninety days of their January 1, 2027 optional redemption date and that the AviationBoardshouldcompletethe legal proceedings in order to refund

maintained, or operated by the Aviation Boardatthe Airport or such portion of such revenues as maybedeterminedbythe Aviation Boardina supplemental sale resolution. SECTION 3. Application is hereby made to the Louisiana State BondCommission for consent, authority,and approvalofthe Refunding Bonds. The not-to-exceed costsofissuance attached hereto as Exhibit A for the RefundingBonds arehereby approved. By virtue of the Aviation Board’sapplication for,acceptance and utilization of the benefits of the Louisiana State BondCommission’s approval(s) resolved andset forth herein, the Aviation Boardresolvesthat it understands andagrees thatsuchapproval(s) areexpresslyconditioned upon, anditfurtherresolvesthatitunderstands, agrees andbinds itself, its successors andassigns to, full andcontinuing compliancewith the “State BondCommission PolicyonApproval of Proposed Use of Swaps, or otherforms of Derivative Products Hedges, Etc.”, adoptedbythe Commission on July 20, 2006, as to the borrowing(s) andothermatter(s) subject to the approval(s), including subsequent application andapproval undersaidPolicyofthe implementation or use of anyswap(s) or other product(s) or enhancement(s) covered thereby SECTION 4.Acopy of this resolution shall be published as soon as possible afterits adoption in the official journalofthe Aviation Board. For aperiod of thirty (30) days from the date of such publication anyperson in interest shall have the righttocontest the legality of this resolution and of the Refunding Bonds to be issuedpursuant hereto andthe provisions securing the Refunding Bonds. Afterthe expiration of said thirty (30) days, no one shall have anyright of action to contest the validity of the Refunding Bonds or the provisions of this resolution, andthe Refunding Bonds shall be conclusively presumedtobelegal andnocourt shall thereafterhave authority to inquire into such matters.

SECTION 5.The prior selection of ButlerSnow LLP as Bond Counseltothe Aviation Boardinaccordance with the prior request for qualifications for BondCounseland evaluations of the responses thereto is hereby ratified. Further the Commissioners do hereby ratify the retention of Auzenne &Associates, L.L.C.,asSL-DBE BondCounselfor the Aviation Board SECTION 6. The Aviation Boardformally requests the City Council to adopt aresolution approving the issuance, sale, anddelivery of the Refunding Bonds andauthorizingthe taking of allactions andexecution of alldocuments needed to accomplish the purposeshereof. This Resolution wasoffered by Ogden andsecondedbyThornton andhaving been submitted to avote,the vote hereon wasasfollows: BoardMember YeaNay Absent Recused Hon. Michael G. Bagneris, Chairman ✓ J. DouglasThornton, Vice-Chairman ✓ Octave J. “Todd” Francis III ✓ James Williams ✓ Ruth Kullman ✓ Roger H. Ogden ✓ Gary L. Smith, Sr ✓ Hon. Neil C. Abramson ✓ This resolution wasadopted on the 21st day of May,2026. /s/ Hon. Michael G. Bagneris Hon. Michael G. Bagneris, Chairman NewOrleansAviation Board EXHIBIT ATOTHIS RESOLUTION HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED. SAID EXHIBIT AISAVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION AT THE OFFICES OF THE NEW ORLEANS AVIATION BOARD, 900 AIRLINE DRIVE, KENNER, LOUISIANA, MONDAYS THROUGH FRIDAYSDURING NORMAL

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 2008 TENNESSE STREET,THIS CITY,IN

TITLED:FIRST

VERSUS MORRIS MAYFIELD,SR CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2025-6429

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue, in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 2008 TENNESSEE ST NEWOR‐LEANS, LA 70117 LOT: 36, SQUARE:950989 THIRDMUNICI‐PALDISTRICT ACQMIN: 1105937 WRIT AMOUNT: $70,325.10

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans

GH 1 LOGS LEGAL GROUPLLP 504838-7535

trictofthe City on July 9, 2026 at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

4048 TALL TIM‐BERS DR NEW ORLEANS, LA 70131 LOT: 14 SQUARE:11 FIFTHMUNICI‐PAL DISTRICT ACQ: 663933 WRIT AMOUNT:

$218,738.20

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans GH 24 NEWMAN MATHIS,BRADY &SPEDALE, APLC 225-3433456 WAYNEA.MAIO‐RANA

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026 jun3-jul 8-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 3534 BLAIRSTREET, THIS CITY,IN THE MATTERENTI‐TLED:CARRING‐TONMORTGAGE SERVICES LLC VERSUS ESTATE OF CELESTINE DOBBS

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2025-208

lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 3534 BLAIRST NEWORLEANS, LA 70131 LOT: 123-A, SQUARE:7 FIFTHMUNICI‐PALDISTRICT ACQMIN: WRIT AMOUNT: $100,860.57

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans

GH 13 JACKSON& MCPHERSON, LLC504-5819444

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026 jun3-jul 8-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 4901 CORONADO DR, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THEMATTER EN‐TITLED:U.S BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION VERSUS DURELL KVASNY,HEIR OF JARVIS ENOCH EVANSA/K/A JARVIS E. EVANS A/K/AJARVIS EVANSAND OC‐TAVIAJOHNSON

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2024-8444

p p erty to wit:

4901 CORONADO DR NEW OR‐LEANS, LA 70127

LOT66- SQUARE 10 3RDMUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQMIN: 1319966

CORONADO HEIGHTSSUBDI‐VISION WRIT AMOUNT: $130,350.72

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonal Checks FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans

RB 14 LAWOFFICESOF HERSCHEL C. ADCOCK,JR. LLC(225) 7560373 COREYJ.GIROIR

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026

jun3-jul 8-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 6950-52 MILNEBOULE‐VARD,THISCITY, IN THEMATTER

ENTITLED: NEWREZ LLC D/B/ASHELL‐POINTMORT‐GAGE SERVIC‐INGVERSUS

DENISP VAMVORAS (A/K/A DENIS

VAMVORAS, DENISVAMVO‐RASSR.)AND THEUNOPENED SUCCESSION OF MILESP VAMVORAS (A/K/A MILES

g ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue, in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on July 9, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 6950-52 MILNE BD NEWOR‐LEANS, LA 70124

LOTS:31& 32, SQUARE:60 SECOND MUNIC‐IPAL DISTRICT ACQMIN: 773291 WRIT AMOUNT:

$174,099.62

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check,Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

Michelle M. Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans

GH 16 LOGS LEGAL GROUPLLP 504838-7535 EMILYA MUELLER

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026 jun3-jul 8-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 3807 NORTHTEAK AVENUE,THIS CITY IN THEMATTER ENTITLED: PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC VERSUS TAU‐RELLE KEITH THOMAS

on June 4, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 3807 NTEAKAV NEWORLEANS, LA 70131

FIFTHMUNICI‐PALDISTRICT SQUARE 118, LOT287 ACQ MIN:1264481 WRIT AMOUNT: $157,113.71

SusanHutson Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans RB 4 HALLIDAY, WATKINS& MANN P.C. AT‐TORNEYSAT LAW318-3881440 ASHLEY E. MOR‐RIS

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 4/29/2026 & 6/3/2026 apr29-jun3-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 202 WARRINGTON DR,CITYOF NEW ORLEANS, IN THEMATTEREN‐TITLED:NEWREZ LLCD/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SER‐VICING VERSUS SHAWNSCOTT (A/K/A SHAWN NICHOLAS SCOTT, SHAWN FELICIASCOTT)

cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue, in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on June 4, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 202 WARRING‐TONDRNEW ORLEANS, LA 70122 LOT2 -SQUARE A 3RDMUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQMIN: 1121142 GENTILLY PARK WRIT AMOUNT: $70,399.21

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

SusanHutson Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans RB 17 LOGS LEGAL GROUPLLP 504838-7535 EMILYA MUELLER

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 4/29/2026 & 6/3/2026 apr29-jun3-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE

SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2024-6448

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue, in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on June 4, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

3720 CADILLAC ST NEWOR‐LEANS, LA 70122 SQUARE 2498, LOTD-1 THIRDMUNICI‐PALDISTRICT ACQ MIN:1378882 WRIT AMOUNT: $304,833.00

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Checkor Money Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

SusanHutson Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans BD 10 LAWOFFICES OF HERSCHEL C. ADCOCK,JR. LLC (225) 756-0373 COREYJ.GIROIR

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 6/3/2026 & 7/8/2026 jun3-jul 8-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT THAT

VAMVORAS SR MILESVAMVO‐RAS)

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2024-10932

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2024-10836

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2025-625

SUMMARYOFENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, LLC’S

ANNUAL MISO UPDATE OF THE MISOCOST RECOVERYRIDER PURSUANT TO SECTION II.C OF THE MISO COST RECOVERYRIDER

Pursuant to Section II.C of the MISO Cost Recovery Rider,Entergy New Orleans, LLC (“ENO”) must file an annual update to Attachments Aand Btothe MISOCost Recovery Rider (“Annual MISO Update”). The MISO Cost Recovery Rider defines the procedurebywhich ENOshall implement and adjust MISO Cost Recovery Rider rates to recover the costs charged to ENO pursuant to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator,Inc. (“MISO”) Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission-approved Open Access Transmission Energy and Operating Markets Tariffs (“MISOTariff”) that arenot recovered via the Fuel Adjustment Clause and certain related costs, net of revenues received pursuant to the MISOTariff, as ordered by the Council of the City of New Orleans in Council Resolution R-15-139 and R-19-

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled

THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 3720 CADILLAC STREET,THIS CITY,IN THEMATTEREN‐TITLED:U.S BANK TRUST NATIONAL AS‐SOCIATION, NOT IN ITSINDIVID‐UALCAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEEFOR RCAF ACQUISI‐TION TRUST VERSUS DARREL WILSON AND THADDEUS J. SENTMORE A/K/ATHAD‐DEUS SENT‐MORE CI VI L

PUBLIC NOTICE SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND BEAR‐INGMUNICIPAL NUMBER 1414 MAZANT STREET,CITYOF NEW ORLEANS, IN THEMATTEREN‐TITLED:REO TRUST2017RPL1 VERSUS

CI VI L DI ST RI CT CO UR TF OR PA RI SH OF OR LE AN S Case No: 2025-7033

A/K/ARUBY

A/K/ARUBYM HALL A/K/A RUBY HALL

By virtue of a WritofSeizure andSaledi‐rected to me by theHonorable Judges of Civil District Court forthe Parish of Orleans, in the aboveentitled cause, Iwillpro‐ceed to sell by public auction, on theground ﬂoor of theCivil District Court Building,421 Loyola Avenue in theFirst Dis‐trictofthe City on June 4, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon,the fol‐lowing de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 1414 MAZANT ST NEWOR‐LEANS, LA 70117 LOT: B, SQUARE: 595 THIRDMUNICI‐PALDISTRICT ACQMIN:202514524 WRIT AMOUNT: $58,426.90

Seized in the abovesuit, TERMS- CASH Thepurchaser at themoment of adjudication to make ade‐positoften per‐cent of thepur‐chaseprice,and thebalance within thirty days thereafter

Note:The pay‐ment must be Cash,Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed CheckorMoney Order. No Per‐sonalChecks. FACE MASKS ANDTEMPERA‐TURECHECKS AREREQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 4/29/2026 & 6/3/2026 apr29-jun3-2t THEUNOPENED

SusanHutson Sheriff, Parish of Or‐leans GH 13 LAWOFFICESOF HERSCHEL C. ADCOCK,JR., LLC(225) 7560373 DENNISF.WIG‐GINS,JR

TheN.O.Advo‐cate Date (s): 4/29/2026 & 6/3/2026 apr29-jun3-2t