Projecting out over downtown New Orleans from the walls of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art is a massive 90-foot mural of a drum major— or the leading member of a marching band that keeps the whole band in tempo—dressed in the Mardi Gras colors of green, purple, and gold with his knee bent in the air and his head reaching towards the ground. While a mural in the middle of New Orleans may appear, upon _rst glance, to have very little to do with Plaquemines Parish, the artist responsible for the project, Keith Duncan, spent the _rst years of his life in the parish’s southern end.

At the February 8 Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District (PPHTD) meeting, commissioners approved an ordinance that will implement random drug testing of “unclassified employees.” It should be noted that “classified employees,” or those who work under civil service regulations, are already subjected to random drug tests; this ordinance simply means that all positions in the port (including leadership) can be potentially drug tested.

January 24, 2024 Mark Anthony Wheat, 58, Seminary, MS: hit and run. Marcus P.

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January 26, 2024 Suit #68669: Cavalry Spv I Llc vs. Trevelle Batholomew, Monies Due.

A nation without borders is not a nation. Presently, the United States is not a secure nation. For several decades America has allowed vast numbers of illegal entries into our homeland. People who merely cross the border and set up residency without having gone through any required legal procedures.

Think your country respects you? Racial preferences in hiring and college admissions, gender choice beyond scientific conviction, mocking religion and certain other conventional beliefs, raising taxes, and failure to enforce laws already on the books. President Joe Biden has no core values or beliefs and has changed his political positions 180 degrees over time on crime and abortion.

When I rst took over as insurance commissioner in 1991, things were really in a mess. Regulation by the Louisiana insurance department was nonexistent.

NOLA Terminal has hired Plaquemines Parish resident Anthony Barrois to serve as terminal manager for its _agship operations facility on the Mississippi River. Located in Plaquemines Parish, NOLA Terminal’s state-of-the-art facility will be the rst of its kind in the region, allowing access for large vessels and accommodating mixed-use terminal and storage operations for a variety of products and cargoes.

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