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Drew Hawkins

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
17
Latest publication
Sep 28, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Drew Hawkins

    John Georges believes Meta AI deals will ‘save journalism’ — and Louisiana’s largest newspaper (opens the original)

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    John Georges likes to tell you he got his start sweeping the floors of his grandfather’s business. He likes to tell you he watches both Fox News and CNN. He likes to tell you he rebuilt the Greek Orthodox church in New Orleans after Katrina, brought the shuttered Greek consulate back after 20 years and was made honorary consul — a title he likes to tell you he never asked for. Because John Georges cares what people think. He says so himself, freshly returned from his other home on the Greek isla

  2. Article · Sep 20, 2026 · Drew Hawkins

    SpaceX has big plans for a new Louisiana 'Star Base,' worrying some near there (opens the original)

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    The center of the small town of Abbeville, La., near the Gulf of Mexico, was closed off to the public for a few hours last month to hold an invitation-only event. Executives, developers and politicians met in an event venue often used for weddings. There they watched an action-movie-style video depicting Elon Musk landing in a helicopter to a techno-music soundtrack. Waiting for him was Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry. "I think Star Base is cool," Musk says in the film. "Star Base Louisian

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Drew Hawkins

    New Orleans ICE office has the second-highest arrest rate in the country, data shows (opens the original)

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    On a normal day, Dale Ross said she sees about 20 or so people appear before a judge at the New Orleans Immigration Court on the fifth floor of One Canal Place Office Tower at the end of Canal Street. Now, volunteer court watchers like her are seeing numbers "closer to the hundreds." On the morning of June 1, more than 200 people were scheduled for immigration hearings at the court — a docket that swelled past 250 by the following day. Most were scheduled for master calendar hearings, often used

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Drew Hawkins

    New SpaceX site in Louisiana concerns some residents (opens the original)

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    A region of coastal marshes in small towns in Louisiana will now be home to what Elon Musk says will be a $100 billion SpaceX launch base. Republican Governor Jeff Landry and state lawmakers waived regulations, helping to get the project there. And as Drew Hawkins of the Gulf States Newsroom reports, residents nearby say they were kept in the dark about what it will mean for them. DREW HAWKINS, BYLINE: Little downtown Abbeville, Louisiana, is blocked off for an invitation-only event. The biggest

  5. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Drew Hawkins

    Ascension Parish president says he's not withholding records, while withholding records (opens the original)

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    Ascension Parish President Clint Cointment told his parish council at an Aug. 20 meeting that his administration has nothing to hide about the Hyundai Steel deal — that every record is public and can be easily obtained through public records requests. "There's no NDAs that exist today. There's nothing that's being withheld from the public," Cointment said at the meeting. "Happy to do any kind of public information request that you want. It's all public. Everything I do, everything is public. And

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