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La. shifts strategy for coastal restoration
New projects focus on land bridges, not river diversions
ABOVE: The Eaglees LEFFT: Stevie Nickks RIG GHT: Lainey Willson
BY MIKE SMITH Staff writer
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2026 Jazz Fest features veterans like the Eagles and Stevie Nicks joined by newcomers including Lainey Wilson and Teddy Swims BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer
The placement of names on the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival talent announcement isn’t random. Where a name appears on that topdown list is often negotiated between the marquee acts’ representatives and the festival. The first three, and thus most prominent, names on the 2026 announce-
ment — officially unveiled Thursday after a draft version leaked the previous day — are classic rock Jazz Fest veterans: the Eagles, Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart. The fourth name hails from a different generation of arena rock, but has also previously played the Fair Grounds: Kings of Leon. After Kings of Leon, the Jazz Fest lineup list pivots to fresh faces, including a tattooed one.
Teddy Swims, the Georgia native with a fondness for upper body ink, first earned a following via YouTube videos of cover songs; he slips easily from R&B to soul to country to rock. His own “Lose Control” catapulted him to international stardom. Lainey Wilson is one of the biggest new names in contemporary country music. In November, the native
Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration detailed a major shift in Louisiana’s strategy for addressing coastal protection and restoration on Wednesday, proposing a slate of projects for the next fiscal year that move definitively away from the large-scale river diversions long seen as linchpins in the state’s plans. The draft project budget for the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority for fiscal 2027, which begins in July, amounts to $1.27 billion, a significant drop from the current year. But that drop is largely because the state has canceled the controversial Mid-Barataria and MidBreton sediment diversion projects while preparing alternatives to take their place. The state’s coastal leadership made clear that it intends to prioritize other types of
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Home insurer lowers rates in Louisiana Many policyholders still seeing hikes
ä See JAZZ FEST, page 8A
BY SAM KARLIN Staff writer
One of Louisiana’s biggest property insurers sent a promising signal this week, saying declining reinsurance costs are allowing the company to cut homeowners insurance premiums by an average of 7.5%. The decision by SureChoice, the secondlargest home insurer in the state, is one sign of improvement in a yearslong insurance crisis that has stretched Louisiana homeowners’ budgets. But the news is not all positive. The rate cut comes just eight months
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Landry, Nungesser spar over Border Patrol operations and that he Governor’s Office calls comments ‘disappointing’ here, has received nu-
BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer
Showcasing rifts between Republicans on an issue that has roiled Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry’s office on Thursday scolded Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser for criticizing Border Patrol’s week-old immigra-
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tion enforcement operation in the state, calling his comments “disappointing” and accusing him of prioritizing foreign-born criminals over the state’s citizens. Nungesser said Wednesday that the sweeps were hurting the economy, that agents have stoked fear in people legally allowed to be
Republican leaders on a key yet controversial pormerous calls from business owners tion of President who are having Donald Trump’s trouble convincagenda. Trump won 60% of the ing workers to vote in the state clock in. Nungesser Landry last year. The statement “They said, ‘We’re getting rid of put Nungesser, a Republican, at odds with Landry and other local the criminals,’ ” said Nungesser,
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who is second-in-command to Landry and leads the state’s tourism efforts, on Wednesday. “These people, a lot of them have played by the rules and have a work visa and now are fearful.” But Landry’s spokesperson, Kate Kelly, said Thursday that Nungesser was showing undue concern for
ä See SPAR, page 6A
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