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Hutson in crowded race for sheriff Approval rating has plummeted amid ethical questions, lawsuits
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The Mystic Krewe of Barkus rolls through the French Quarter ABOVE: Zen Blue shakes hands with Enzo Gonzalez, 5, for treats during the Mystic Krewe of Barkus parade in the French Quarter on Sunday. The 32nd annual Mystic Krewe of Barkus paraded through the French Quarter to the theme ‘Vanity Fur: Barkus Rules the Runway!’ The parade was rescheduled to after Mardi Gras due to weather. MIDDLE RIGHT: Bubbles float around dogs during the parade on Sunday. RIGHT: A poodle walks in the Mystic Krewe of Barkus parade in the French Quarter on Sunday.
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Grain facility to boost organic farming, firm says
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Louisiana wildlife chief to take a top job at ICE BY ALYSE PFEIL | Staff writer
Madison Sheahan, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, is leaving to take a top role in Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Donald Trump’s administration, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Sunday morning. Sheahan will serve as deputy director, Noem said. “It’s no surprise that President @realDonaldTrump has
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tapped Madison Sheahan to help lead the Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement Agency,” Gov. Jeff Landry said in a post on social media platform X. “I look forward to working with Madison in her new role.” Landry said the department’s deputy secretary, Tyler Bosworth, “will be detailed to handle the responsibilities of the Secretary until Madison assumes her official role.”
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The script has flipped for Susan Hutson. Just three years ago, New Orleans’ first female sheriff had beaten an embattled but heavily favored incumbent in Marlin Gusman and was poised to take over a staff of more than 600 deputies and receive the keys to the city’s long-troubled jail, under federal court watch since 2013. Her surprise runoff win in 2021 as a progressive reformer placed Hutson, previously the city’s independent police monitor, among New Orleans’ most powerful leaders. Now, after a series of stumbles and well-publicized Hutson struggles to tamp down violence in a lockup that has swelled to about 1,500 inmates, Hutson is the one drawing challengers and assaults on her record. The 89-bed mental health facility that she pledged to fend off is halfway built un- Woodfork der a judge’s order, to the lament of the community activists who supported her. Hutson’s approval among voters has plummeted amid a swirl of ethical questions and lawsuits alleging a pattern of mismanagement, which she denies. Her hold on key back- Shorty ers appears tenuous. Enter a pair of prominent early challengers, in what’s shaping up as a crowded race this November. Michelle Woodfork, who held a brief stint as interim superintendent of the New Orleans
Neighbors oppose Holy Cross project
Madison Sheahan, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, is leaving to take a top role in Immigration and Customs Enforcement. STAFF FILE PHOTO By JAVIER GALLEGOS
BY DESIREE STENNETT | Staff writer The first vessel carrying about 30,000 metric tons of imported organic soybeans, wheat and other grain is expected to arrive at the Alabo Street Wharf in Holy Cross this summer. It will take a full-time crew of 17 — six facility workers, seven dock workers and four security officers — to run the operation for Canada-based Sunrise Foods International. The facility will be a first-of-its-kind organic grain operation for the United States, company officials said in their first interview since the plan for the Port of New Orleans site was revealed in late September. The $13 million project represents a huge step for the multinational company that has operations in Chicago, Nebraska, Texas, Canada and Europe.
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