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“What was not well known up until our study is that these storm surge events are appearing to become more severe in terms of the water they bring in on average.” D.J. RASMUSSEN, one of the study’s authors
President’s proposed budget threatens space observatory
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Bronze sculptures by artist Bill Ludwig were saved from the scrap heap.
BY CLAIRE GRUNEWALD Staff writer
Sale of saved sculptures a success Art lovers purchase works of Bill Ludwig
BY DOUG MacCASH Staff writer
All of Kate Gaar’s hard work paid off. A steady stream of visitors arrived at Gaar’s temporary art gallery on Decatur Street last weekend to lay eyes on the exquisite collection of sculpture she’d rescued from a Chalmette scrapyard. And, instead of being melted down, many of the sculptures were purchased by appreciative art lovers. The art was the work of the late Bill Ludwig, a master metal sculptor who created the famous statue of Ignatius J. Reilly on Canal Street. Precisely how the eerie, surrealistic male and female figures ended up at the scrapyard remains a mystery. But the owners of W.B. Scrap Metal recognized the quality
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La. LIGO scientists fear cuts
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A photographer braves the water on Lakeshore Drive to get a photo of the storm surge after Hurricane Francine hit the Mandeville lakefront in September.
Study: Storm surge worsening in Gulf Research finds warming waters, rising seas could be main contributors
Coast are some of the worst hot spots for intensifying storm surge. The causes are still being determined, but warming waters and accompanying rising seas could be main contributors, the scientists from Princeton, Tulane and other institutions say. “The Gulf Coast has a much more severe BY JOSIE ABUGOV hazard for storm surge than the rest of the Staff writer country — that’s kind of been known,” said As the state prepares for a hurricane sea- D.J. Rasmussen, one of the study’s authors. son predicted to be above average, a new “What was not well known up until our study shows storm surge may be worsening study is that these storm surge events are more than previously thought along much appearing to become more severe in terms of the Gulf Coast, including southeast Loui- of the water they bring in on average.” This means that on top of rising sea levels siana. The findings based on nationwide coastal and land sinking, worsening storm surge data from the past 70 years indicate the ä See SURGE, page 10A southeastern Atlantic and eastern Gulf
Scientists believe if the Trump administration’s proposed budget is approved, a Louisiana space observatory could be on the chopping block and see its scientific mission crippled. The Trump administration announced on May 30 a proposed federal budget request for 2026 that would cut $5.2 billion, or 57%, of the National Science Foundation’s $9 billion annual budget. The proposal could lead to the shutdown of the NSF-funded observatory tucked away in the Livingston Parish piney woods, which made international headlines in 2015 when it detected gravitation waves from black holes more than a billion light years away. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is one of two in the United States. Its counterpart is LIGO Hanford in Washington state. Under the proposed federal budget, only one LIGO observatory would operate with a reduced level of spending for LIGO technology development in the 2026 fiscal year, according to the budget proposal. LIGO Livingston Observatory Head Joseph Giaime said that if either observatory were to close, “the amount of space we can see into is much diminished.” “We run together. We use data together. We’re able to dig more deeply into space together,” he said. While it is unclear which LIGO observatory would have to shut
ä See LIGO, page 10A
Trump-Musk alliance blows up records related to sex abuser ä Cassidy meets with Trump on Split rapidly escalates the Jeffrey Epstein because Trump is spending bill. PAGE 14A in them. into a public feud mentioned The tech entrepreneur even
BY MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance took off like one of SpaceX’s rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up. The spectacular flameout Thursday peaked as Trump threatened to cut Musk’s government contracts and Musk claimed that Trump’s administration hasn’t released all
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shared a post on social media calling for Trump’s impeachment and skewered the president’s signature tariffs, predicting a recession this year. The messy blowup between the president of the United States and the world’s richest man played out on their respective social media platforms after Trump was asked during a White House meeting with Germany’s new leader about Musk’s criticism of his spending
bill. Trump had largely remained silent as Musk stewed over the past few days on his social media platform X, condemning the president’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” But Trump clapped back Thursday in the Oval Office, saying he was “very disappointed in Musk.” Musk responded on social media
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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon ä See ALLIANCE, page 14A Musk in the Oval Office on May 30.
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