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“This agreement solidifies a partnership for decades to come.”
ELECTION 2025
SAINTS OWNER GAyLE BENSON
Moreno continues to lead in fundraising
Saints sign long-term lease deal for Dome
NEW ORLEANS MAyOR
Political groups produce attack mailers targeting candidates BY BEN MYERS Staff writer
STAFF PHOTO By BRETT DUKE
Saints owner Gayle Benson and Gov. Jeff Landry celebrate during a news conference Thursday announcing a new long-term lease of the Caesars Superdome.
State wins several concessions in agreement BY ANTHONY McAULEY, TYLER BRIDGES and JEFF DUNCAN
ä Jeff Duncan: Deal secures Saints’ future — for now. PAGE 1C
Gov. Jeff Landry and Gayle Benson have signed a new long-term lease that will keep the Saints playing at the Caesars Superdome for at least another decade, after lengthy negotiations that were hung up over side real estate deals and the state’s share in profits from food sales and other concessions. The deal was formally announced Thursday during a signing ceremony on the field of the Superdome,
where Benson and Landry gathered with Saints officials and civic leaders. Benson and Landry both praised the agreement, with Benson calling it “an example of our continued special partnership with this great state of Louisiana.” “This agreement solidifies a partnership for decades to come,” she added. The lease runs through 2035 and
Staff writers
then gives the Saints options to renew every five years through 2055. It also resolves sticking points that had delayed final approval even after the stadium lease itself was finalized last month. At issue were the team’s lucrative leases tied to Benson Tower, Champions Square, and the Saints’ practice facility in Jefferson Parish, which state officials had sought to separate from the Superdome deal. In the end, the state and the Saints agreed to sign the package together,
ä See SAINTS, page 7A
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an “armed conflict” with them, according to a Trump administration memo obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, following recent U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean. The memo appears to represent an extraordinary assertion of pres-
WEATHER HIGH 84 LOW 74 PAGE 8B
idential war powers, with Trump effectively declaring that trafficking of drugs into the United States amounts to armed conflict requiring the use of military force — a new rationale for past and future actions. “The President determined that the United States is in a noninternational armed conflict with these designated terrorist organizations,” the memo says. Trump directed the Pentagon to “conduct operations against them pursuant
ä See MORENO, page 8A
Levee police arming SWAT-style team
Trump says U.S., drug cartels in ‘armed conflict’ BY AAMER MADHANI and LISA MASCARO
With just over a week left before the Oct. 11 primary, New Orleans mayoral front-runner Helena Moreno is far outspending her two major opponents and is sitting on twice as much cash as both combined, according to the latest campaign finance reports. Moreno, an at-large City Council member, and Royce Duplessis, a state senator, each raised more than $200,000 from Sept. 2 to Duplessis Sept. 21, according to the reports, which were due Wednesday. Council member Oliver Thomas brought in just $26,000. All three are Democrats. Moreno spent $925,000 and still has $770,000 cash on hand. Duplessis also spent a good amount, at $586,000, and holds Moreno $221,000. Thomas spent $222,000 and has $120,000. “Moreno’s campaign continues to be a financial juggernaut,” said Ed Chervenak, a University of New Orleans political science professor. A large portion of Moreno’s spending — more than half a Thomas million dollars in the three-week reporting period — went to televi- ä Mayoral sion, radio and digital advertising, candidates as polling shows an outright pri- address mary victory within reach. Moreschool no commanded 49% in a University of New Orleans survey this funding fee week, followed by Duplessis with issue. PAGE 8A 15% and Thomas with 13%. One in five respondents were undecided. Several earlier polls showed Moreno hovering near the majority needed for a primary win, with
Unit to get semiautomatic rifles, special training
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President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South ä See TRUMP, page 6A Lawn of the White House on Tuesday.
to an internal memo and agency officials, a change it says is needed to professionalize the force, but which watchdogs call concerning. The first phase of training for the new Special Response Team began on Sept. 22 and will involve “tactical BY ALEX LUBBEN movement with handguns Staff writer and rifles,” “room entering New Orleans’ levee au- and clearing,” and SWAT thority is starting a special certification, according to police unit armed with semi- the memo. The move comes automatic rifles and trained ä See LEVEE, page 6A in SWAT tactics, according
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