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Health measures advancing rapidly BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer
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Carlos Santana, left, and his band play on the Festival Stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Thursday.
SUNNY & SMOOTH Santana, Morris Day & the Time, Cage the Elephant close a big Thursday at Jazz Fest
Downpours briefly drenched parts of Uptown and downtown New Orleans on Thursday morning. But just as it did its first weekend, the 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival escaped the rain. The sun bore down all Keith day, generating Spera long lines at the lemonade and ice tea stands inside the Fair Grounds. The day was not without its dark clouds. Three pedestrians were struck by a seafood box
truck around 10:30 a.m. outside the festival grounds at Gentilly Boulevard and Lapeyrouse Street. They were transported to a hospital via MORE @ ambulance. JAZZ FEST And acclaimed Americana singONLINE er-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo canceled his two scheduled Thursday appearances. A reason was not disclosed, but Escovedo, who is based in Texas, has dealt with a number of health issues in recent years.
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Morris Day & the Time performs on the Congo Square Stage on Thursday, the fifth day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
‘It’s a story of renewal’ Exhibit honors 50 years of Vietnamese Americans in N.O.
tiful. But also, she knew it,” Tran said as she described her parents in a recorded oral history that was included in the collection’s “Making it Home: Vietnam to New Orleans” exhibit that opened in April. “My dad was a partyer. … He liked BY DESIREE STENNETT to gamble. He had a motorcycle. Staff writer He was in the Vietnamese miliEncased in glass in an exhibit at tary.” The Historic New Orleans CollecTran’s parents were among the tion is the beauty pageant trophy more than 1 million people who that made author Elizabeth Tran fled their homeland at the end of start to ask her parents about the the Vietnam War 50 years ago this week. past. “My mother is a beauty queen ä See EXHIBIT, page 8A from Saigon, so she was very beau-
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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 health department under President Donald Trump. And they come as some Republican state lawmakers and officials across the country hitch their wagons 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 paAbraham tient’s consent is problematic for me as a physician,” Abraham said of proposed water fluoridation ban. Both bills advanced out of the Senate committee on a party-line vote, with its six Republican members voting yes and three Democratic members voting no. The full Senate passed the bills nearly
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Josie Gristina, center, and Nicole Siegel listen to an oral history Thursday while viewing the ‘Making It Home: From Vietnam to New Orleans’ exhibit at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
New rules for solar projects debated
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For much of 2021, one issue dominated Tangipahoa Parish politics: Should the parish allow a 100-megawatt solar farm to be built on 1,200 acres of farmland? And if so, under what rules? On one side, residents and farmers worried it would be an eyesore and pose a safety hazard and take up valuable agricultural land. On the other, solar developers and landowners argued that property owners should be allowed to do what they want with their land and that the project was clean and safe. After issuing a temporary moratorium, the council passed regulations requiring 50foot vegetative barriers, among other rules. In April, the solar farm went online. But the debate left lasting scars. “We had people crying. We have, still to this day, neighbors that do not speak,” said state Rep. Kimberly Coates, R-Ponchatoula, who was a member of the Parish Council.
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