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Health measures advancing rapidly Pro-ivermectin, anti-fluoride bills sailing through amid MAHA push
BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer
Bills to ban fluoride in the state’s public water systems and make ivermectin available over the counter have so far advanced swiftly through the Louisiana Legislature, easily passing the Republican-controlled Senate. The proposed changes are linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who this year was appointed to run the nation’s ä Dentists health department under President Donald Trump. critical And they come as some of move Republican state lawmakto ban ers and officials across the fluoride. country hitch their wagons PAGE 4A to Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement. Louisiana Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham, the state’s top public health official and a vocal backer of Kennedy’s health agenda, lobbied for both bills during public testimony before the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. He said both are “patient freedom” issues. “Putting a chemical in the water without the patient’s consent is problematic for me as a physician,” Abraham said of proposed water fluoridation ban.
POWER THROUGH PRAYER ABOVE: Attendees hold out their hands in praise Thursday during a National Day of Prayer service at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Lafayette. The annual observance is designated by Congress and held on the first Thursday of May, when people are asked to pray and meditate. RIGHT: Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel speaks during the service.
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Trump taps Waltz for U.N. position
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Former Hana Grill building in Lafayette sold Group plans to open new restaurant at site BY ADAM DAIGLE
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The former Hana Grill building has been sold and will be demolished in the coming weeks. A new restaurant is planned for the site.
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A local group bought the old Hana Grill in Lafayette with the hopes of opening a restaurant along the Vermilion River. A group led by Lafayette business owner Jonathan Foreman bought the building at 1601 W. Pinhook Road for just under $1 million from a Mississippi-based seller in a deal that closed Monday, according to land records. Foreman and his brother, Patrick, who own an oil and gas equipment
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rental business, are looking for a restaurateur to partner on the project. The current building will be demolished in the coming weeks, they said, with the hopes of having a restaurant opened in two or three years. “We grew up on the river,” said Jessica Foreman, the owner’s sister who is handling marketing. “Because of that, we see it as a huge asset for Lafayette and one that’s extremely underutilized. We would love to be able to put more energy into it.” The building has sat empty since the Hana Grill closed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic five years ago and never reopened.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is nominating national security adviser Mike Waltz as United Nations ambassador while Secretary of State Marco Rubio would take over Waltz’s duties on an interim role. He announced the major shake-up of his national security team shortly after news broke that Waltz Waltz and his deputy are leaving the administration. Waltz has been under scrutiny for weeks after reporting from The Atlantic that he had mistakenly added the magazine’s editor-in-chief to a Signal chat being used to discuss military plans.
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