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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: Upcoming Chamber Music And...

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2021/09/29

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Crescent City Chamber Music Festival founder Luke Fleming joins us to discuss CCCMF’s upcoming sixth season, “(Over)Come Together.” Performances will run at several different venues from September 30 to October 10. In an interview aired this June, New Orleans Opera General and Artistic Director Clare Burovac discusses the New Orleans Opera’s return to live performance at the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts for

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Louisiana Considered: Louisiana Seafood Industry Hit...

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2021/09/27

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Gulf Seafood Foundation Board Member Jim Gossen and former chairman of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board Harlon Pearce explain how Hurricane Ida disrupted Louisiana’s seafood industry and how the industry recovered from Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago. Food writer Ian McNulty reports on the heroic efforts undertaken by local meat markets in the River Parishes to produce andouille in communities hit hard

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Louisiana Considered: Louisiana Still Hasn’t Received...

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2021/09/27

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this episode of Louisiana Considered on Friday, September 24, 2021. Hosts Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace discuss New Orleans’ ongoing “trash crisis” and the federal government’s failure to provide assistance to Louisiana state and local governments after hurricanes Ida, Laura and Delta. State Representative Tanner Magee of Houma discusses what his constituents need from FEMA and legislators to rebuild from devastation wreaked by Hurricane

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Louisiana Considered: AT&T and Entergy Under Scrutiny...

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2021/09/23

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Lead Coastal Reporter Tegan Wendland presents findings from a joint investigation by NPR and ProPublica into Entergy’s failure to prepare South Louisiana’s power grid for a storm as intense as Hurricane Ida, despite decades of insistence to improve the grid by the City of New Orleans. State Representative Stephanie Hilferty discusses AT&T’s failure to provide explanations for lengthy service outages during

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Louisiana Considered: GNOF Leader Discusses Ida...

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2021/09/23

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Greater New Orleans Foundation President and CEO Andy Kopplin discusses how the Foundation has fared during the COVID-19 pandemic and what actions the Foundation is considering to assist with recovery from Hurricane Ida in the 13 parishes it serves. WWNO/WRKF reporter Ryan Nelsen reports from a heated New Orleans City Council meeting where Entergy New Orleans executives walked out when they were supposed to listen to

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Louisiana Considered: December Supreme Court Hearing...

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2021/09/21

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Public Health Reporter Rosemary Westwood reports on an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court hearing in December which could overturn or negate the abortion rights ruling of Roe v. Wade. The case will decide if Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a 2018 Mississippi case which effectively bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions in cases of rape or incest, is constitutional. Under current

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Louisiana Considered: Operation Blue Roof, New...

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2021/09/21

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hurricane Recovery Mission deputy commander Lt. Col. Robert Warren Green explains how the Army Corps of Engineers’ Blue Roof program works and why the wait for free tarp installation on roofs damaged by Hurricane Ida is so long. Operation Blue Roof will stop accepting applications for free blue roof installations on September 30. In a story aired today during NPR’s Morning Edition, WWNO City

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Louisiana Considered: Trash Collection Yet To Resume...

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2021/09/17

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO City Hall Reporter Ryan Nelsen reports on the growing amount of garbage stacking up on New Orleans’ streets in the wake of Hurricane Ida, which interrupted standard garbage collection in the city. In an interview aired yesterday during WBUR’s Here and Now, host Tonya Mosley asks Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy Environmental Law Professor Jim Blackburn to explain how Texas’ environmental

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Louisiana Considered: Updates On Tropical Storm...

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2021/09/15

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Meteorologist Dan Holiday joins us to talk about Tropical Storm Nicholas and the increasingly frequent occurrence of tropical storms along the Gulf Coast. WWNO/WRKF Capitol Access Reporter Paul Braun reports on Governor Edwards’ recent press conferences on COVID-19, Tropical Storm Nicholas and the state’s ongoing recovery from Hurricane Ida. Host Karl Lengel reports on the death of one out-of-state utility repair worker

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Louisiana Considered: Latest On Ida Damage And...

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2021/09/14

Patrick Madden hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Environment Reporter Mark Schleifstein explains how Hurricane Ida caused environmental damage in Louisiana. More than 2,300 possible chemical leaks and spills were reported to authorities after the storm. WWNO/WRKF Public Health Reporter Rosemary Westwood reports on public calls for new measures to protect seniors residing in independent-living seniors’ apartment complexes

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Louisiana Considered: HUD Sells Houses In Flood...

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2021/09/13

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Lead Coastal Reporter Tegan Wendland aided an NPR investigation into the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s sales of homes in flood-prone areas to unsuspecting citizens seeking affordable housing. The investigation found that HUD disproportionately sold more houses built in official flood zones compared to houses on high ground in multiple states, and that over 20% of the homes that HUD

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Louisiana Considered: How Scholars Study Disasters,...

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2021/09/09

Karl Lengel hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Dillard University Professor of Urban Studies and Public Policy Dr. Robert Collins explains how his team researches disasters like Hurricane Ida using social science research techniques. WWNO/WRKF Education Reporter Aubri Juhasz reports on the timeline for Louisiana K-12 schools to fully reopen in the wake of Hurricane Ida. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered: Governor’s Climate Task Force...

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2021/08/26

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Lead Coastal Reporter Tegan Wendland tells us about the Louisiana Climate Task Force’s draft plan, which is the latest step in establishing a firm emissions reduction goal for the state. Blue Krewe CEO Geoff Coats tells us about the nonprofit, community-based organizations upcoming relaunch of New Orleans’ bikeshare program. A fleet of 504 Blue Bikes hit the streets this week. We remember Tony Award-winning

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Louisiana Considered: Impact Of COVID-19 In New...

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2021/08/24

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Education Reporter Aubri Juhasz updates us on the impact of COVID-19 in New Orleans schools, which reported 364 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday. As a result, more than 4,600 students and teachers are under quarantine. The Historic New Orleans Collection art curator Judith Bonner joins us to talk about the Collection’s current exhibit of works by native Louisiana artist John Clemmer. John Clemmer: A Legacy in Art is

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Louisiana Considered: FDA Grants Pfizer COVID-19...

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2021/08/23

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Capitol Access reporter Paul Braun talks about the development of plans for COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Louisiana universities and state government workplaces after the FDA granted the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine full approval this morning. NPR Weekend Edition host Scott Simon interviewed Our Lady of the Angels Hospital Nursing Director of ICU Melissa Wise about how her hospital in Bogalusa is trying to give care

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Louisiana Considered: Fifth Anniversary Of 2016 South...

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2021/08/19

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. LSU Law Center: Climate Change and Policy Project Director Ed Richards discusses causes of the August 2016 floods that devastated southeast Louisiana and explains how we can compare the magnitude of those floods to other historical floods. Tulane University planetary science researcher Dr. Jennifer Whitten explains her research showing that what was previously believed to be liquid water under the surface of Mars’ polar ice

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Louisiana Considered: Data Center Of Southeast...

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2021/08/18

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Data Center of Southeast Louisiana Chief Demographer Dr. Allison Plyer joins us to discuss the Center’s work using data analysis to improve lives in Southeast Louisiana and to fight misinformation on social media. WWNO/WRKF public health reporter Rosemary Westwood speaks with Ochsner Health pediatrician Dr. William Lennarz about the risks the delta variant of COVID-19 poses to children under 12, who cannot yet be

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Louisiana Considered: COVID-19 Surge Continues To...

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2021/08/17

Karl Lengel hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF education reporter Aubri Juhasz reports the latest news on the spread of COVID-19 in classrooms. Some parents in New Orleans are frustrated by the lack of a virtual education option from most schools in the city. WWNO/WRKF lead coastal reporter Tegan Wendland fills us in on today’s press conference hosted by City of New Orleans Communications Director Beau Tidwell, where he said that the state will likely surpass

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Louisiana Considered: Southern States See Sharp...

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2021/08/16

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Gulf States Newsroom health care reporter Shalina Chatlani reports on the drastic decline in testing for HIV in some southern states during the pandemic, which experts say could lead to an increase in cases of HIV/AIDS in the next few years. In Louisiana, HIV testing has declined 33% since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Proactive screening for HIV is one of the best tools individuals have to prevent passing along

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Louisiana Considered: Heavier Penalties For Drag...

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2021/08/12

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WRKF Morning Edition host Karen Henderson spoke with Baton Rouge city council member Rowdy Gaudet about a city ordinance he sponsored which increases penalties for drag racing in Baton Rouge. The ordinance, passed last night, will levy a $500 fine for first-time drag racing offenders and a $1,000 fine for subsequent offences. Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and reporter Norman Robinson tell us about the newest marker on

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