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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: Dr. Joseph Kanter on lifting...

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2021/10/28

Patrick Madden hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Meteorologist Dan Holiday joins us to discuss the threat posed by storms heading our way from the west Wednesday afternoon. WWNO/WRKF Public Health reporter Rosemary Westwood talks to Dr. Joseph Kanter, the state’s health officer, about Louisiana’s indoor mask mandate being lifted earlier this week, except in some settings. In an excerpt from this week’s “Bookmark” from WWNO/WRKF’s weekly show The Reading Life, host

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Louisiana Considered: New Orleans Film Society to...

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2021/10/26

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. The New Orleans Film Society’s Kiyoko McCrae and Clint Bowie join us to discuss the 32nd Annual New Orleans Film Festival. Tickets are available today and the festival kicks off Nov. 5. NOLA Project’s Brittany Williams tells us about “Tell It To Me Sweet: A Winding Trail of Tales,” her upcoming Halloween production to be presented in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden. The production will have eight performances from Oct

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Louisiana Considered: Broken promises to Louisiana...

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2021/10/25

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Gulf States Newsroom reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick reports on the 10-6 lifers, inmates and former inmates who were promised they’d only spend 10 years and six months in prison for their crimes if they exhibited good behavior. But as laws regarding minimum sentencing changed, their sentences were revised to life in prison with no chance of parole. In a story originally produced for NPR’s “Living Downstream” podcast, Gulf

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Louisiana Considered: JP Morrell on his bid for...

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2021/10/25

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF investigative reporter Rich Webster discusses his investigation of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. His reporting, in partnership with ProPublica and The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, uncovered a systemic lack of accountability and transparency when it comes to use of force by officers and a perception that residents from Black and minority communities are treated

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Louisiana Considered: Students with limited English...

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2021/10/21

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Gulf States Newsroom education reporter Aubri Juhasz speaks with New Orleans educators Cheruba Chavez and Emma Merrill about Louisiana’s strict requirements for high school graduation, which make it difficult for students who don’t speak English as a first language to graduate on time. State Reps. Barbara Freiberg (R - Baton Rouge) and Tammy Phelps (D - Shreveport), both on the House Education Committee, give us their

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Louisiana Considered: Don Gandolini on TV/film union...

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2021/10/20

Also, we learn about a special lunar phenomenon and station membership. Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Don Gandolini, international representative for IATSE, discusses why the film workers’ union is asking for better working conditions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered; Filmmaker Jason Berry looks at...

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2021/10/20

Diane Mack hosted Tuesday's episode of Louisiana Considered. Famed stage and TV actor Brian Batt talks about his one-man show "Dear Mr. Williams," which kicks off Le Petit Theatre's season. Author and filmmaker Jason Berry discusses his new documentary "City of a Million Dreams", which looks at jazz funerals in New Orleans. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered: Journalist Eve Abrams On...

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2021/10/20

Patrick Madden hosted Monday's episode of Louisiana Considered. Journalist and radio producer Eve Abrams talks about her latest podcast episode for "70 Million" and recent criminal justice reform efforts in New Orleans. Donald Remy, Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department Of Veterans Affairs, on how the effort to booster shots to veterans and the top issues facing student veterans right now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered: NOLA Council Member Kristen...

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2021/10/20

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. New Orleans City Councilor Kristin Gisleson Palmer of district C discusses her campaign to win the Division 2 At-Large council seat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered: Lt. Gen. Honoré on who pays for...

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2021/10/14

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Russel Honoré, a retired lieutenant general who was in charge of the U.S. response to Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago, says cleanup of oil that escaped from abandoned oil infrastructure during Hurricane Ida could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Who should pay for it? Here's what Honore has to say. Shreveport filmmaker Gregory Kallenberg talks with us about the Louisiana Film Prize and what it's doing for indie film

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Louisiana Considered: Killian & the Comeback Kids to...

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2021/10/13

Also, a forecast of Hurricane Pamela’s effects on Louisiana and a look at how NOLA’s criminal legal funds itself through arrests. Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Film director and actor Taylor Purdee joins us to discuss his most recent musical film, “Killian & the Comeback Kids” (2020). The cast, composers and filmmakers will host a live Q&A session and performance of selected songs from the film this Friday, Oct. 15 at the Zeitgeist Theatre

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Louisiana Considered: Doctors fight vaccine...

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2021/10/12

Also, New Orleans cyclists stage a protest, a unique art exhibit in the Bywater and how some charities supported victims of Hurricane Ida. Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Public Health reporter Rosemary Westwood reports on Louisiana doctors’ efforts to convince pregnant people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The CDC now recommends that pregnant people get vaccinated to prevent hospitalization, death and adverse pregnancy outcomes. WWNO

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Louisiana Considered: LaPlace residents weigh options...

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2021/10/12

Also, Texas residents seeking abortions are traveling to a Shreveport women’s health clinic. Patrick Madden hosted this episode of Louisiana Considered. In a story originally aired Friday on NPR’s All Things Considered, NPR’s Sarah McCammon and Gulf States Newsroom reporter Shalina Chatlani talk with residents of LaPlace about why they choose to remain in the city despite repeatedly being subjected to extreme tropical weather conditions. In another story by Sarah McCammon aired last

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Louisiana Considered: New Orleans council-at-large...

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2021/10/11

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this episode of Louisiana Considered on Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. New Orleans City Council member Jared Brossett discusses plans and policy ideas regarding his campaign to run for council-at-large in the upcoming City Council elections. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered: Egalitarian methods for...

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2021/10/07

Also, DOTD is planning for a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge. Adam Vos hosted this episode of Louisiana Considered. Louisiana Progress Policy and Advocacy Director Peter Robins-Brown discusses the state’s redistricting process and what fair, competitive congressional districts should look like. DOTD Communications Director Rodney Mallett talks about plans for a third bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge and how DOTD hopes it will improve traffic in

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Louisiana Considered: A documentary looks at Jim...

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2021/10/06

At least 1,500 incarcerated people in Louisiana were convicted by non-unanimous juries. Karl Lengel hosted this episode of Louisiana Considered. Al Jazeera News Senior Producer Jeremy Young discusses “The Jim Crow Convictions,” a documentary by Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines and The Lens about criminal convictions in Louisiana made under a Jim Crow-era law, taken off the books in 2018, that allowed juries to convict without a unanimous decision. In acknowledgement of National Fire Prevention

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Louisiana Considered: Mishandled Evacuation Of...

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2021/10/06

The Music Box Village and Musaica Chamber Ensemble return to live performance in New Orleans. Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick reports on the close-quarters, unhygienic conditions that incarcerated residents faced during the botched evacuations of Louisiana jails and correctional facilities during Hurricane Ida. Project Airlift Program Director of Public Programs Eliza McDermott discusses the reopening of the Music

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Louisiana Considered: Reproductive Rights Are At...

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2021/10/05

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. In an excerpt from this weekend’s All Things Considered, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg and host Michel Martin discuss what’s at stake this Supreme Court session, especially regarding women’s reproductive rights. In a discussion from Louisiana Considered aired September 21, WWNO/WRKF Public Health Reporter Rosemary Westwood and host Diane Mack discuss a specific case the Supreme Court will hear that could

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Louisiana Considered: Desire, Louisiana

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2021/09/30

Patrick Madden hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. In a story originally aired October 2018 as part of the series “TriPod: New Orleans at 300,” former WWNO/WRKF reporter Laine Kaplan-Levenson tells the story of New Orleans’ Desire community, a housing project originally marketed toward Black veterans of World War II and later toward low-income residents. Houses in Desire were built hastily and cheaply on top of an old landfill, and residents of the community were forced

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Louisiana Considered: Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s...

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2021/09/29

Patrick Madden hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF reporter Rich Webster discusses public response to findings from a joint investigation by WWNO/WRKF and ProPublica into the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. The investigation found that the office runs with little oversight or accountability for deputies’ behavior in the field, and that there are stark racial disparities in shootings by deputies. The ACLU and U.S. Rep. Troy Carter commented on the findings

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