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Louisiana Considered

WWNO/WRKF Newsroom

“Louisiana Considered” showcases South Louisiana"s biggest stories and features interviews with journalists, newsmakers, and artists. The show is a collaboration between the WWNO and WRKF newsrooms. Airs Monday through Friday at noon.

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Louisiana Considered: Bike routes in the works in New...

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2022/01/05

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. RoadWork NOLA Mobility and Safety Outreach Manager David Lee Simmons and Healthy Community Services Founder and Executive Director Angela Chalk join us to talk about the City's collaboration with the NOLA Complete Streets Coalition on Moving New Orleans Bikes, which aims to expand transportation options in New Orleans and make the City’s streets more accessible to cyclists, pedestrians and transit riders. WWNO/WRKF

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Louisiana Considered: OperaCréole celebrates Black...

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2022/01/04

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF education reporter Aubri Juhasz reports on the latest guidance from the state health department for schools as students return from holiday breaks. OperaCréole founders Givonna Joseph and Aria Mason discuss their unique company’s upcoming 10th anniversary concert, which will be “A celebration of Black Women in classical music and civil rights, from Ida B. Wells to Kamala Harris.” The concert takes place Jan

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Louisiana Considered: State’s supply of rapid tests...

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2022/01/04

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF public health reporter Rosemary Westwood updates us on the availability of COVID-19 tests in Southeast Louisiana. In an interview first heard on NPR’s Morning Edition, NPR Congressional Reporter Claudia Grisales speaks with U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger about what the agency has done to recover from the riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Several Gulf States Newsroom reporters present some of

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Louisiana (Re-)Considered: Encore interviews about...

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2021/12/22

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. In a July 2021 interview, Tulane University Assistant Professor Jennifer Whitten tells us about her work on NASA’s VERITAS spacecraft, designed to create maps of Venus’s surface and analyze what substances constitute the planet’s surface and interior. In November, bicycle advocate Mark E. Martin joined us to talk about the dangers posed to cyclists on Louisiana roads. Martin is the founder of Bike Baton Rouge, a

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Louisiana Considered: How New Orleans residents...

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2021/12/22

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. In an interview first aired on WBUR’s Here & Now, St. Louis Public Radio reporter Eric Schmid and host Celeste Headlee discuss how out-of-date building codes contributed to the destruction wreaked by tornadoes in multiple Midwestern states earlier this month. Gulf States Newsroom wealth and poverty reporter Stephen Bisaha reports on the problems posed for those living below the poverty line by the contradictory

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Louisiana Considered: Special education programs and...

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2021/12/20

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF education reporter Aubri Juhasz speaks with the Center for Learner Equity’s Jennifer Coco about a recently-published guide that helps New Orleans parents of children with disabilities to find schools with the right special education programs for their children. Aubri also visits New Orleans’ first academy for English language learners who speak Spanish as their first language. Gulf States Newsroom wealth and

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Louisiana Considered: Baton Rouge region is expected...

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2021/12/17

Adam Vos hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered, Louisiana Association of Educators President Tia Mills discusses what parents, educators and students can expect if the federal Build Back Better Act is passed. BRAC Senior Vice President of Business Intelligence Andrew Fitzgerald tells us how the Capital Region’s economy is expected to grow in 2022. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered: Harry Shearer on “Christmas...

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2021/12/15

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Actor Harry Shearer discusses the annual holiday charity event he hosts with his wife, Judith Owen: “Christmas Without Tears.” The event takes place next Tuesday and Wednesday at Le Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré in New Orleans. In an interview from this April, labor historian Jefferson Cowie discusses the first vote by Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, AL to unionize. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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24:29

Louisiana Considered: Two “Nutcracker” productions in...

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2021/12/14

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Delta Festival Ballet Artistic Director Joseph Giacobbe discusses the ballet company’s 40th annual production of “The Nutcracker,” premiering this Saturday, Dec. 18 at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts. New Orleans School of Ballet Owner and Artistic Director Nikki Hefko discusses her school’s production of “The Nutcracker in New Orleans,” which also premieres this weekend at Loyola University’s

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Louisiana Considered: How a Louisiana billionaire...

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2021/12/14

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO City Hall reporter Ryan Nelsen helps break down the results of Saturday’s elections. ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger discusses how an oil spill helped Louisiana fossil fuel billionaire Phyllis Taylor avoid paying any income taxes for 14 years. In excerpts from two past interviews, Nick Spitzer and Susan Larson interview novelist Anne Rice, who passed away Saturday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered: Analyzing candidates for NOLA...

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2021/12/10

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Political consultant Karen Carvin Shachat discusses what candidates for public office in New Orleans are doing ahead of Saturday’s runoff elections. In an excerpt from American Routes, Mississippi-based blues guitarist Eddie Cotton, Jr. discusses his upbringing in Jackson and his musical heroes. WWNO City Hall reporter Ryan Nelsen reports on the race for New Orleans Sheriff. The runoff election for

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Louisiana Considered: Tools for understanding...

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2021/12/09

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Louisiana Progress Policy and Advocacy Director Peter Robins-Brown discusses his organization’s congressional redistricting map projections, available for comparison to the current maps at louisiana.redistrictingandyou.org. The LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Dr. John Pardue discusses how the department tests wastewater to discover the prevalence of COVID-19 in the Baton Rouge community. See

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Louisiana Considered: How the Krewe of Red Beans gave...

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2021/12/08

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considere. Krewe of Red Beans’ Devin De Wulf chronicles the Krewe’s history and discusses Feed the Second Line, an effort to give back to the New Orleans community. Author Elizabeth Rush discusses the continuing impact of her 2018 book on how climate change affects human communities, “Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.” She also talks about her 2019 trip to Antarctica to research the continent’s diminishing glaciers,

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Louisiana Considered: Upcoming music and architecture...

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2021/12/08

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. New Orleans Opera Director of Community Partnerships and Education Dr. Tara Melvin joins us to discuss The Storybook Project, a program that will use children’s books to introduce kids to classical music. Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans Executive Director Danielle Del Sol discusses this year’s Holiday Home Tour, which launches Dec. 11. Food writer Ian McNulty reports on the struggle restaurants are facing this

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Louisiana Considered: How public schools account for...

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2021/12/06

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF education reporter Aubri Juhasz reports on how Louisiana school boards submitted simulations of standardized test scores to account for a loss of learning time during the pandemic. Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Desare Frazier and WWNO/WRKF’s Rosemary Westwood speak with Mississippi Edition host Karen Brown about the upcoming Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which will

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Louisiana Considered: NOLA City Councilmember Joe...

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2021/12/03

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. New Orleans District A City Councilmember Joe Giarusso III discusses his re-election last month and his upcoming policy plans. The hosts discuss the upcoming Dec. 11 elections and today’s gubernatorial press conference on the COVID-19 omicron variant. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...

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2021/12/01

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF News Director Patrick Madden discusses the potential impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in South Louisiana and the decision to carry NPR’s special coverage of the case’s opening arguments on air at both stations. WWNO/WRKF Public Health reporter Rosemary Westwood reports on the scene outside of the Supreme Court chambers just after the case’s opening arguments. In a piece aired earlier

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Louisiana Considered: Supreme Court case will...

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2021/11/30

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Desare Frazier and WWNO/WRKF’s Rosemary Westwood speak with Mississippi Edition host Karen Brown about the upcoming Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which will determine the future of abortion access in the United States. The Symphony Chorus of New Orleans’ Music Director Steven Edwards discusses the Chorus’ upcoming performance of Handel’s “Messiah” on

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Louisiana Considered: Camp Algiers, New Orleans’...

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2021/11/29

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. In two episodes from WWNO’s podcast “TriPod: New Orleans at 300,” NPR’s Laine Kaplan-Levenson gives us the history of New Orleans’ forgotten WWII internment camp, Camp Algiers. Part one tells the story of how innocent Europeans living in Latin America were wrongfully kidnapped by FBI agents and brought to the camp. Part two details how actual Nazis, the FBI’s intended targets, found leadership roles on the internee

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Louisiana Considered: Jazz and arts events happening...

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2021/11/27

Diane Mack hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. New Orleans Jazz Museum Director Greg Lambousy discusses two upcoming events: Sound Collage: A Celebration of Music and Light on Dec. 3, and the annual Improvisations Gala on Dec. 4. Prospect New Orleans Executive Director Nick Stillman joins us to talk about Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, an ongoing New Orleans citywide art exhibition which began as a celebration of the city’s triennial. See

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