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Ex-mayor urges N.O. to unite Morial meets with Mayor-elect Moreno BY JAMES FINN Staff writer
HISTORY MYSTERY
How did a 2,000-year-old Roman grave marker end up in a New Orleans backyard? BY POET WOLFE Staff writer
Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenzo, were doing yard work at their New Orleans home in March when he found a marble slab beneath a lemon tree, hidden under a tangle of thick vines and dirt. Santoro heard Lorenzo call for her: “You’ve got to come see this.” The couple looked closely at the stone and noticed Latin letters carved across it. Santoro, an anthropologist at Tulane University, was “immediately fascinated” by the discovery, imagining that it was a grave marker left behind by the
home’s previous owners for a family member. She reached out to colleagues in Latin and classical studies, who suggested the slab might be something far more unlikely — an authentic Roman tombstone. They were skeptical, but it turned out that the improbable theory was correct. The stone was a 2,000-year-old grave marker for Sextus Congenius Verus, a second-century soldier and sailor in the Roman Imperial Navy. “It was very quick,” Santoro said. “Once I put out the energy that I needed help with it, New Orleans delivered.”
ä See MARKER, page 7A
ABOVE: An ancient Roman tombstone was found in the backyard of a New Orleans home in March.
PHOTO PROVIDED By DANIELLA SANTORO
Former Mayor Marc Morial met with Mayor-elect Helena Moreno in New Orleans on Tu e s d a y , offering counsel as M o r e n o begins her t r a n s i t i o n Morial and urging New Orleanians to “unite behind” Moreno following a tumultuous campaign that culminated Saturday in her decisive primary victory.
His remarks also came days after one of Moreno’s competitors in the race, City Council member Oliver Thomas, said in an explosive concession speech that she won because “different organizations lined up” to ensure her victory, Moreno including news organizations, and that “the devil don’t want 99%; the devil want 100%.”
ä See UNITE, page 6A
State’s chief justice, judges spar over pay
their disagreement. Weimer locked in over For several years, Weimer been trying to convince a yearslong battle has an obscure board called over special fund the Judicial Supplemental
BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer
John Weimer sits atop the judicial system in Louisiana as the chief justice of the state Supreme Court. But Weimer has spent years running into a brick wall of opposition from judges when he tells them that they have to make a decision that would hit them in the pocketbook. Last week, they disregarded Weimer’s plea once again. One judge even engaged in a testy exchange with him
Compensation Fund to pay the Supreme Court for the time its staff spends to administer it. The board is unknown to the public but matters greatly t o j u d g e s Weimer because it decides how much to augment their salaries from the fund, which is fed by fees on civil court filings across the state. The
ä See PAY, page 6A
Shutdown brings unprecedented restructuring to government BY LISA MASCARO
AP congressional correspondent WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick winners and losers — who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.
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As the shutdown enters its third week, the Office and Management and Budget said Tuesday it’s preparing to “batten down the hatches” with more reductions in force to come. The president calls budget chief Russ Vought the “grim reaper,” and Vought has seized on the opportunity to fund Trump’s priorities, paying the military while slashing jobs in health, education, the sciences and other
areas with actions that have been criticized as illegal and are facing court challenges. Trump said programs favored by Democrats are being targeted and “they’re never going to come back, in many cases.” Speaking during an event at the White House, Trump added, “We’re being able to do things that we were unable to do before.” With Congress at a standstill —
the Republican-led House refusing to return to session and the Senate stuck in a loop of failed votes to reopen government as Democrats demand health care funding — the budget office quickly filled the void. Vought, a chief architect of the conservative Project 2025 policy book, is reshaping the size and scope of federal government in ways similar to those envisioned
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in the blueprint. It is exactly what certain lawmakers, particularly Democrats, feared if Congress failed to fund the government. Trump’s priorities — supporting the military and pursuing his mass deportation agenda — have been largely uninterrupted, despite the closures. The administration found leftover tariff revenues to
ä See SHUTDOWN, page 9A
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