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Landry urges rejection of N.O. bailout
State Bond Commission to consider $125 million measure BY BLAKE PATERSON Staff writer
Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday urged state leaders to reject cashstrapped New Orleans’ request for a $125 million bailout and called for a state administrator to manage the city’s finances, prompting city leaders to scramble to con-
vince the state to chart a different course. The city needs the approval of the State Bond Commission — which is scheduled to meet Thursday — to sell $125 million in short-term revenue bonds, essentially payday loans for distressed governments. Officials hoped to use the money to make payroll
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through the end of the year, after Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration said last week that delays in federal grant payments threatened the city’s cash flow. The city is also looking for ways to plug a $160 million budget deficit. But Landry in a social media post Tuesday came out against the proposal and urged Republican lead-
ers in the state Legislature to join him. He also suggested appointing a fiscal administrator to oversee the city’s finances. The state committee responsible for making that recommendation is holding an emergency meeting Wednesday. “It is imperative that (New Orleans) address its financial matters promptly,” the governor said on X. He added that the Legislature’s Republicans, many of whom serve
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Category 5 storm slams Jamaica
Caribbean island suffers heavy flooding, wind damage, landslides
on the state Bond Commission, should “deny the city’s request to accumulate debt on the backs of its citizens.” Landry’s social media post kicked off a 48-hour sprint among New Orleans’ political leaders to convince state officials that they’re capable of managing the city’s finances without outside interference, that a similar fiscal crisis
ä See BAILOUT, page 4A
Loyola rejects Turning Point chapter GOP leaders criticize decision, suggest loss of state funding BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer
Waves splash in Kingston, Jamaica, as Hurricane Melissa strikes the island on Tuesday.
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sessment could be slow. “There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5,” Prime Minister KINGSTON, Jamaica — Heavy floodwaters swept Andrew Holness said. “The question now is across southwestern Jamaica, winds tore the speed of recovery. That’s the challenge.” Floodwaters trapped at least three families roofs off buildings and boulders tumbled onto roads Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa came in their homes in the community of Black Rivashore as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, one er in western Jamaica, and crews were unable of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record. to help them because of dangerous conditions, Landslides, fallen trees and numerous pow- said Desmond McKenzie, deputy chair of Jaer outages were reported as Melissa hit with maica’s Disaster Risk Management Council. 185 mph winds near New Hope, with officials ä See JAMAICA, page 6A cautioning that the cleanup and damage asAssociated Press
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Few storms have formed in Caribbean BY KASEY BUBNASH
But when Melissa formed last week, it made history in another way: It was the first named storm of the year to make it into the CaribWith wind speeds that reached a whopping bean Sea, where, despite warmer than aver185 mph by Tuesday morning and rain bands age water, things have been eerily quiet this that could flood the Caribbean with feet of wa- hurricane season. Only two named storms, Melissa and Tropiter, Hurricane Melissa likely will go down as the most devastating Atlantic storm of 2025 cal Storm Barry, have tracked through the and among the strongest ever to hit Jamaica’s ä See STORMS, page 8A shores.
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and Lexi Perkins traveled to Jamaica for their honeymoon but found themselves trapped on the island as Hurricane Melissa came ashore on Tuesday. Page 8A
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Louisiana’s Republican leaders chastised Loyola University on Tuesday after its student government association declined to formally recognize a campus chapter of Turning Point USA, a conservative political student group founded by the late Charlie Kirk. Gov. Jeff Landry, Attorney General Liz Murrill, the chair of the state Republican Party and the Louisiana Freedom Caucus, a faction of hard-right state lawmakers, criticized the decision to deny the Turning Point chapter’s request to become a chartered student organization at the New Orleans school, with the governor saying he would look into the matter and the caucus chair suggesting that the private university could lose any state funding it may receive. Loyola does not receive direct state funding but has some project-specific state-funded grants, and some students receive state scholarships, according to Aariel Charbonnet, a spokesperson for the university. Since Kirk’s assassination last month, Republicans have promoted Turning Point USA and cast any criticism of Kirk and his organization as an attack on free speech. On Monday, Landry spoke at a rally hosted by LSU’s Turning Point chapter and called on the university to erect a statue of Kirk on campus. Landry previously criticized Louisiana universities for not welcoming conservative voices and pushed for greater freedom of expression on campuses.
ä See LOYOLA, page 4A
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