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Tornado tally from Arthur rises to 14
Better detection, disorganized storm system led to unusually large total BY ALEX LUBBEN Staff writer STAFF PHOTOS By SOPHIA GERMER
Tulane University signs surround Charity Hospital in New Orleans on Tuesday. The university is taking over the effort to turn the site into a hub of education, medical research and apartments.
Tulane to take over Charity transformation Agreement, not yet final, is key milestone in effort to redevelop the building, medical corridor and New Orleans’ downtown
BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer
Tulane University is taking over the long-stalled effort to turn the former Charity Hospital in downtown New Orleans into a hub of education, medical research and apartments, university officials said Tuesday, a key milestone in an ambitious redevelopment project that has bedeviled city leaders for nearly two decades. Under an agreement Tulane reached earlier this month with 1532 Tulane Holdco, the consortium selected in 2018 to oversee the $300 million project, Tulane will be responsible for restoring the 90-year-old former hospital and turning roughly two-thirds of it into the new home of the Tulane Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the Tulane Innovation Institute.
ä See CHARITY, page 3A
ä See ARTHUR, page 5A
Previous failure of new S&WB power complex not disclosed by officials
A cyclist passes Charity Hospital, which is slated to become the new home of the Tulane Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the Tulane Innovation Institute.
Winner of Democrat primary will make history nearly captured the May 16 primary outOne will be first Black U.S. ELECTION 2026 right, has far more money than Crockett, has a full campaign staff — unlike Crockett Senate campaign finalist in — and has endorsements from the Louisiana paign finalist in Louisiana since Reconstruc- Democratic Party and New Orleans Mayor La. since Reconstruction tion. Helena Moreno.
BY TYLER BRIDGES
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and Jamie Davis, a farmer from tiny Tensas Parish, is vying for the Democratic Party state Treasurer John Fleming are competing Senate nomination on Saturday against Gary Saturday for the Republican Senate nominaOne of two men who grew up in rural north- Crockett, a business owner in New Orleans tion in a separate party primary. east Louisiana will make history Saturday by who is originally from Madison Parish. ä See SENATE, page 4A Davis is heavily favored in the runoff. He becoming the first Black U.S. Senate cam-
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WEATHER HIGH 94 LOW 77 PAGE 10A
The remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur produced at least 14 tornadoes that touched down in the New Orleans region last week, according to the National Weather Service, a cluster that forecasters said was big but not unprecedented for a disorganized earlyä Coastal Miss. season storm. Storms like Arthur communities — tropical systems clean up after that don’t build enough Arthur. PAGE 4B force to become hurricanes — can be surprisingly damaging. And on Thursday morning, residents across the New Orleans area awoke to torrential rains, strong winds and nearly a dozen twisters that carved small paths through several parishes. Jay Grymes, Louisiana’s state climatologist, said in an interview Tuesday that disorganized storms like Arthur are often be unpredictable, spinning off tornadoes and dropping huge amounts of rain.
BY BEN MYERS Staff writer
The Sewerage & Water Board power equipment that tripped offline last week when the remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur slammed into New Orleans had failed once before on a day with little to no rainfall. The May 20 failure at the S&WB’s newly built power complex occurred just before a five-day stretch in which New Orleans saw as much as seven inches of rain. The utility didn’t publicly disclose the issue. Steve Nelson, the city’s deputy chief administrative officer for infrastructure, confirmed the previous failure on Tuesday morning. The two failures of a newly minted, $300 million power complex have raised concerns about the resiliency of the power system and how the S&WB will keep drainage pumps running during severe weather in the near future.
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