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McNeese president Homeless picked to lead LSU services face
Rousse promises corporate-oriented leadership
funding cuts Advocates fear the return of encampments, other issues BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer
Two years ago, New Orleans had millions of dollars in housing funds, a brand-new office dedicated to homeless services and a bold mission to tackle the city’s homelessness crisis once and for all. Now, after securing housing for nearly 1,400 people and clearing encampments across downtown New Orleans, the director of that effort says that proposed funding cuts for the program could put the city back at square one. In his office’s annual budget hearing before the New Orleans City Council
STAFF PHOTO By JAVIER GALLEGOS
on Wednesday, Nathaniel Fields, the director of the Office of Homeless Services, will present the bleak state of affairs as the council considers a 2026 spending plan with deep cuts across a range of city departFields ments. The City Council must approve a budget by Dec. 1. Under Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s proposed budget, Fields’ office would see an 80% cut, from $3.6 million to $700,000. At the same time,
ä See HOMELESS, page 6A
Board also appoints chancellor for BR campus
N.O. faltering on vendor payments
BY CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT
BY BLAKE PATERSON
Wade Rousse, front, and James Dalton receive a round of applause and shake hands on their way to the podium after being named LSU president and executive vice president, respectively, during the LSU Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday.
ä LSU is naming Verge Ausberry as its full-time After a monthslong process athletic director, and two hours of deliberation by according to the LSU Board of Supervisors, multiple sources. McNeese State University Presi-
Staff writer
dent Wade Rousse is LSU’s 29th president. A Louisiana native, Rousse pitched himself as a nontraditional candidate who would shake up the university with corporateoriented leadership after past presidents had lengthy academic backgrounds. He said the exact date he will start hasn’t been set. In an unexpected turn of events Tuesday afternoon, the board simultaneously appointed another finalist for the president posi-
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tion — James Dalton, executive vice president and provost at the University of Alabama — as the executive vice president of LSU. The position will include the traditional chancellor role of the flagship campus in Baton Rouge and signals a significant change to the current system. Accepting his position, Rousse said he intended to put a detailed
organizational chart out in the next 30 days and called the appointment “the honor of my life.” “Thank you for thinking creatively,” he told board members. “As we started this process, we started thinking about structure. At every event I went to, I talked about structure. In my mind, I have a 90-day, a 180-day and a 360-day plan.” Rousse will take control of LSU under intense public scrutiny: In the past two weeks, football coach Brian Kelly was fired and Athletic Director Scott Woodward left under pressure from Gov. Jeff Landry. Additionally, the Trump
ä See LSU, page 11A
Staff writer
On the eve of a key meeting in Baton Rouge that could determine whether New Orleans can secure a $125 million short-term loan to keep its operations funded, the city’s cash crunch is starting to affect its ability to pay for basic services. The city is past due on a roughly $3.2 million invoice from IV Waste for September trash pickup, owner Sidney Torres IV confirmed Tuesday. And officials appearing before the City Council on Tuesday warned that de-
layed payments from the city could force New Orleans’ senior centers to cut back on services — or even shutter their doors — through the end of the year. City officials are scrambling to find money to keep city operations funded and cover paychecks for nearly 5,000 workers, after Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration revealed last month that the city was on track to run out of cash before next year. The city’s original proposal to address its cash crunch, selling $125 million
ä See PAYMENTS, page 5A
Former Vice President Cheney dies at 84 He was a powerful and polarizing figure
died Monday from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said Tuesday in a statement. In Cheney’s hands, the vice presiBY CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press dency became a nexus of influence and manipulation — no longer the timid ofWASHINGTON — Dick Cheney, the hard- fice whose occupants had tended their charging conservative who became boss’s ambitions, gone to endless banone of the most powerful and polariz- quets and often waited in the wings for ing vice presidents in U.S. history and their own shot at the prize. “The Darth a leading advocate for the invasion of Vader of the administration,” as Bush described the public’s view. Iraq, has died at 84. When he bunkered in secure unGeorge W. Bush’s vice president
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disclosed locations after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, that was less an inconvenience for Cheney than a metaphor for a life of power that he exercised to maximum effect from the shadows. No one seemed more amused at that perception than Cheney himself. “Am I the evil genius in the corner that nobody ever sees come out of his hole?” he asked. “It’s a nice way to operate, actually.” Cheney served father and son
ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By CHUCK BURTON
Dick Cheney served two terms as George W. Bush’s vice ä See CHENEY, page 8A president.
Business ...................10A Commentary ................7B Nation-World................2A Classified .....................9D Deaths .........................4B Opinion ........................6B Comics-Puzzles .....5D-8D Living............................1D Sports ..........................1C
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