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2026 LEGISLATURE ELECTIONS
Updated voting map clears House
Final approval close but legal challenges loom BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer
The Louisiana Legislature is on the brink of passing a new congressional map after the House approved an updated version Thursday and Republican leaders in both chambers have thrown their support behind the plan. But court challenges by Republicans and Democrats loom, creating uncertainty about if and when the map will be finalized ahead of the November midterm elections. Legislative leaders helming the redistricting effort have said legal action is an inevitability they’re prepared to confront with a map they believe will withstand court challenges. “The map is constitutional. That’s why I like it,” said Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter, a key Republican in the redistricting effort. “I think it will pass a constitutional challenge.” The House passed a map with five Republican-leaning districts and one Democratic-leaning district that ties together Black communities from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. Lawmakers did so after over seven hours of debate, with Democrats in the chamber emotionally protesting the elimination of one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. “If you vote for this bill, you are participating in a racist act,” Rep. Edmond Jordan, D-Baton Rouge, told his colleagues in the Legislature.
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Bossier Bossier Webster Webster
Lincoln Lincoln
Caddo Caddo
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Calcasieu Calcasieu
Madison Madison
Catahoula Catahoula
Natchitoches Natchitoches
Beauregard Beauregard
Richland Richland
Jackson Jackson Winn Winn
Proposed Louisiana congressional district map
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BY ALEX LUBBEN Staff writer
Gov. Jeff Landry announced Thursday that the state had reached an agreement with oil giant Exxon Mobil to resolve lawsuits seeking compensation from the company for damaging the state’s rapidly eroding coastline, but details of the deal are likely to remain secret. The announcement raised questions over not only the contents of the agreement, but also what effect it would have on similar pend- Landry ing cases. It was also unclear to what degree the deal would benefit Louisiana’s vital coastal restoration efforts, which face a severe reduction in funding in the years ahead. It may even add to mounting speculation over whether Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking to expand its rocket operations to a site along Louisiana’s coast.
ä See EXXON, page 14A
Plaquemines Plaquemines
Terrebonne Terrebonne
HANO will manage Guste Homes after vacancy, water issues
Staff S ff map Source: Louisiana Legislature
The Senate is likely to pass the new map Friday and send it to Gov. Jeff Landry for his signature after Republican leaders this week reached an agreement on how to draw the lines of Louisiana’s six congressional districts. The map approved Thursday looks roughly like the one approved in 2022, and addresses several points of contention between the House and the Senate over how some parishes were split between multiple districts.
“The map is constitutional. That’s why I like it.” STATE SEN. CALEB KLEINPETER, R-Port Allen
“If you vote for this bill, you are participating in a racist act.”
cerned neighbor.” Residents of Banks’ 3200 block weren’t sure who distributed the notices, but they had some ideas. Tensions had simmered for months over the blighted blue house. Since a group of gregarious day laborers moved out, a new crew had begun sheltering there. They frequently consumed drugs, relieved themselves in alleyways
Management group under scrutiny
STATE REP. EDMOND JORDAN, D-Baton Rouge
ä See MAP, page 6A
doned house, printed messages appeared in mailboxes, asking neighbors to take action. “The man in charge of the property at 3217 Banks is Mr. Carlos Liriano,” the leaflets read. “Please consider reaching BY JAMES FINN out to him with a text or a call Staff writer to request that he do something A few weeks before gunfire about the fact that the property rang out on Banks Street in an has turned into a crack house.” They were signed: “a conongoing dispute over an aban-
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Coastal land disputes settled, Landry says
St. Bernard St. Bernard
BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer
and left trash strewn across the stoop, neighbors said. One neighbor saw a fire in the backyard. Others noticed bikes, food and work equipment went missing. “That earlier crowd, they were chill,” said Javiron Thompson, an IT worker whose apartment shares an alleyway
New Orleans’ public housing agency will oversee Guste Homes following mounting scrutiny of the resident management corporation that has overseen the 685-unit complex for decades. The shift comes as part of a plan developed by the Housing Authority of New Orleans and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which earlier this year threatened to shutter part of the Central City complex, citing high vacancy rates. In a statement on Thursday, HANO said that it would “assume direct management responsibility” for the Guste high-rise and its three townhome developments as part of its plan to address the vacancy and maintenance issues
ä See SHOOTING, page 14A
ä See MANAGE, page 6A
Tension over blighted property ends in shooting Psychiatrist had grown frustrated, records show
Louisiana, Exxon agree to deal
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