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Landry’s N.O. stance mirrors other red states Critics complain tough approach doesn’t help
Council takes first steps to controlling S&WB N.O. leaders pursue challenge of reforming utility
BY BEN MYERS Staff writer
will without consulting or collaborating with local leaders. “We are allowing a governor to slap us around like a rag doll,” state Rep. Delisha Boyd, D-New Orleans, said at a recent community forum. “We have a guy trying to score points with Donald Trump,” added state Sen. Sidney Barthelemy Jr., D-New Orleans. “That doesn’t have anything to do with benefiting our state.” In recent weeks, Landry has said
The New Orleans City Council on Thursday took its first steps toward exerting unprecedented control over the Sewerage & Water Board as city leaders pursue a generational shift in how the city manages its troubled water utility. A council committee passed new measures aimed at increasing transparency and accountability in the utility’s governing board, budgeting practices McCarron and emergency response. The committee also approved motions calling for an audit of S&WB finances and a Civil Service pay study to increase compensation for field workers. The full council is expected to pass the measures on Aug. 6. Beyond that, the council and Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration plan to explore ways to more closely align the stand-alone agency with city government — perhaps even turning it into a City Hall department. “We are making history,” said District A council member Aimee McCarron, who helped shape the proposed measures. “Today, we are the first council and administration to take on the challenge of reforming the Sewerage and Water Board. The current governing structure is a systematic failure.” The meeting ended with an unplanned, half-hour exchange between Council President JP Morrell and S&WB Executive Director Randy Hayman, who forcefully defended his position.
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Gov. Jeff Landry has pushed changes in New Orleans’ court system and vetoed spending projects in the city.
Governor says he has ‘done more for N.O. than any other governor’ BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer
With several aggressive moves against New Orleans this year, Gov. Jeff Landry has become the latest Republican governor to adopt policies that have angered Democratic cities in their state. Landry pushed the Legislature to eliminate jobs in New Orleans’ court system, disproportionately vetoed spending projects in New Orleans, publicly downplayed the city’s role
in Louisiana’s economy and has refused entreaties in recent weeks from Mayor Helena Moreno to meet to try to normalize relations. Landry’s moves mirror those by Republican governors in Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi, who have all either imposed greater state control over their Democratic-led cities in recent years or taken away some of their political power. New Orleans officials say Landry is targeting their city by imposing his
Trump floats pulling AG nominee
to Senate Republicans’ demands The senators said the Justice Senators’ demands over a sweeping tax audit immu- Department seemed interested in over tax audit immunity nity deal benefiting the president reaching an agreement with them, but the White House wouldn’t and members of his family. deal at issue After failed negotiations forced budge to aid the confirmation of
BY MICHELLE L. PRICE, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday he may pull acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination for the full-time post to avoid conceding
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the delay of a committee vote to advance Blanche’s nomination, Trump suggested he was holding firm against pressure from Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis. They have expressed concerns about the controversial settlement of Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, which a judge denounced as an exercise in self-dealing.
Trump’s loyal former personal attorney, who has aggressively pursued the administration’s priorities as acting attorney general. Instead, Trump said in a social media post that he might pull Blanche’s nomination and resubmit it after Cornyn and Tillis leave office next year.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears before the Senate ä See NOMINEE, page 8A Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on July 15.
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