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State Sen. Gerald Boudreaux, Lafayette Mayor-President Monique Boulet and others hold a ribbon-cutting Tuesday at Prime Time Head Start at the Holy Rosary Institute.
Students return to Holy Rosary campus with Head Start
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Trump blasts UN in speech President tells General Assembly institution not living up to potential
BY AAMER MADHANI and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump castigated the United Nations as a feckless institution in a speech to the world body on Tuesday, praising the turn America has taken under his leadership while warning Europe will be ruined if it doesn’t turn away from a “double-tailed monster” of ill-conceived migration and green energy policies. His roughly hourlong speech before the U.N. General Assembly was both grievance-filled and self-congratulatory as he used the platform to applaud his secondterm achievements and lament that some of his fellow world leaders’ countries were “going to hell.” The address was the latest reminder
ä See TRUMP, page 4A
Cassidy wants to see data on Tylenol
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Head Start teacher Khalia Irons passes out stickers to students at Prime Time Head Start at the Holy Rosary Institute in Lafayette on Tuesday. BY ASHLEY WHITE Staff writer
The sounds of laughter, singing and learning once again can be heard at the historic site of the Holy Rosary Institute in Lafayette. Prime Time Head Start and Early Head Start have welcomed nearly 60 3and 4-year-olds to its satellite campus and celebrated with a ribbon-cutting Tuesday morning. “We’re really excited about what this means and what this represents, not
only for Holy Rosary, but what it represents for this community and the people we serve,” Holy Rosary Institute Redevelopment Board President Dustin Cravins said. “We couldn’t be more thankful to have young people back on this historic campus. It’s very vital to the work we’re doing here.” The celebration was attended by several community leaders, including Lafayette Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet, state Sen. Gerald Boudreaux and state Rep. Tehmi Chassion, Parish
Council member A.B. Rubin and City Council member Kenneth Boudreaux. The Holy Rosary location is one of four Prime Time Head Start programs in Lafayette and Iberia parishes. Last year, its Immaculate Heart of Mary campus, which serves children from 6 weeks to 5 years old, celebrated a renovation and expansion. Head Start was first launched in 1965 and focuses on providing comprehensive health, nutrition and education
ä See STUDENTS, page 6A
FDA recommendations don’t match studies, many say BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT Staff writer
In a news conference Monday, President Donald Trump repeatedly gave medical advice to pregnant mothers: “Don’t take Tylenol.” Trump was unveiling new guidance from the FDA that urges mothers to talk with their doctor and minimize the use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in the popular pain reliever. The guidance points to some studies that have found a link between the drug and neurological conditions like autism and ADHD. The announcement swiftly drew
ä See TYLENOL, page 4A
Abandoned oil platforms along La. coast remain untracked 6, 2024. more than 1,113 offshore strucState’s oversight of Feb. Now, the platform sits rusting tures within 3 miles of Louisiana’s structures questioned and empty in the waters of Black coastline in state waters. Of those,
BY ALEX LUBBEN Staff writer
BLACK BAY — The anonymous log, found months later in an oil platform’s living quarters, documented a worker’s tasks: He pumped oil, cleaned sludge and repaired the structure. Then, abruptly: “Shutting in field prepping to leave Wednesday morning. We have red or orange flagging tape on every valve that we closed,” reads an entry dated
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Bay, northeast of Buras, just one of at least 879 offshore structures abandoned in Louisiana’s state waters, according to a new analysis by True Transition. The nonprofit compiled its report after discovering a gap in state data: While Louisiana tracks oil wells, it does not track the platforms built to service them. Using satellite images from Skytruth, another environmental nonprofit, and data from the state’s Department of Energy and Natural Resources, the report identifies
only 234 appear to be near active oil and gas wells. The rest — 879 — are likely idle or abandoned. Unlike other states and the federal government, Louisiana does not know where oil and gas platforms in its state waters are located. “We contacted everyone — DENR, the Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, the Coast Guard — and no one could provide a map or a count,” said Megan Biven, the founder of
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ä See PLATFORMS, page 6A Damaged inshore oil platforms and rigs stand in the Gulf south of Venice.
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