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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: Louisiana’s Coastal Master...

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2021/07/08

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Environment journalist Bob Marshall talks about the links between the recent condo collapse in Surfside, FL and Louisiana’s dwindling coastal wetlands. Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan could help us stave off some effects of climate change if the state can find the funds. LIGO-Caltech Lead Scientist Dr. Brian O’Reilly describes one of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory’s most recent findings - a black hole

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Louisiana Considered: Louisiana’s Lost Gravesites,...

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2021/07/07

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. The New York Times’ Alexandra Eaton and New Orleans-based researcher and artist Imani Jacqueline Brown tell us about their team’s use of forensic architecture to find lost gravesites of enslaved people on chemical plant construction sites owned by petrochemical companies like Formosa in St. James Parish. RISE St. James organizer and recent Goldman Environmental Prize winner Sharon C. Lavigne joins us to tell the story of

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Louisiana Considered: Walter Isaacson On His Book...

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2021/07/06

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Author, journalist and Tulane University history professor Walter Isaacson discusses his new book, “The Code Breaker.” It’s a biography of Dr. Jennifer Doudna, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on the CRISPR gene editing system. The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Food Writer Ian McNulty describes his history with the creation and consumption of tomato sandwiches. See

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Louisiana Considered: Preserving New Orleans’...

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2021/07/06

Karl Lengel hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. City of New Orleans Cemetery Superintendent Emily Ford and New Orleans Mayor’s Office Deputy Communications Director David Lee Simmons tell us about efforts to preserve New Orleans’ iconic cemeteries. 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

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Louisiana Considered: The Growing Possibility Of A...

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2021/07/02

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WRKF/WWNO Capitol Access Reporter Paul Braun joins us to discuss the latest on Louisiana state house conservatives’ push to hold a session to override Gov. Edwards’ vetoes of multiple pieces of recent legislation. Mississippi Public Broadcasting reporter Ashley Norwood informs us about Mississippi’s state supreme court’s overturning of a medical marijuana program which passed a statewide vote. LSU Manship School Assistant

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Louisiana Considered: FEMA’s Failures To Address...

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2021/07/02

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. NPR Science Desk reporter Rebecca Hersher discusses how socioeconomic conditions determine how people are affected by pollution and climate change, as well as their access to disaster relief and energy. Outgoing President and CEO of the New Orleans Business Alliance Quentin L. Messer, Jr. joins us to talk about his new position in Michigan, which is similar to the position he held at NOLABA. See omnystudio.com/listener

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Louisiana Considered: DHS Secretary Pushes For...

Louisiana Considered ·

2021/07/02

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO New Orleans City Hall Reporter Ryan Nelsen joins us to discuss today’s press conference on New Orleans’ vaccination rates at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. New Orleans Opera General Director Clare Burovac discusses the New Orleans Opera’s return to live performance at the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts this November and the 2021-2022 season. Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane Curator

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Louisiana Considered: The Secret Basketball Game That...

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2021/06/28

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. From the WWNO archives, NPR’s Throughline podcast producer and reporter Laine Kaplan-Levenson tells us the story of Louisiana’s first integrated high school sports competition. Author Ethan Michaeli discusses his recent article in the magazine 64 Parishes, Louisiana and the Defender, about how the Black-owned newspaper the Chicago Defender covered stories from Louisiana during the 20th century. See

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Louisiana Considered: Louisiana’s Eviction Crisis,...

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2021/06/24

Patrick Madden hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO New Orleans City Hall Reporter Ryan Nelsen joined us from a press conference on the post-pandemic eviction crisis in New Orleans. WRKF/WWNO Capitol Access Reporter Paul Braun updates us on the possibility of the legislature’s first veto override session under the state’s new constitution. WWNO/WRKF Public Health Reporter Rosemary Westwood tells us why it’s important that Louisiana’s undocumented workers get

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Louisiana Considered: Fighting For Insurance Reform,...

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2021/06/23

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Real Reform Louisiana Executive Director Eric Holl joins us to discuss his nonprofit organization’s recent attempt to draw attention to the need for insurance reform in Louisiana - by delivering tiki torches to the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry’s office in Baton Rouge because auto insurance rates have yet to decline as a result of the tort reform legislation last year. We follow up with venue and

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Louisiana Considered: Red River Parish’s Balanced...

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2021/06/22

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Gulf States Newsroom Education Reporter Aubri Juhasz spoke with Red River School Board Superintendent Alison Hughes, Red River Elementary School Principal Mike Beck and parent Roxie Gray-Reliford about the parish’s switch to a “balanced” school calendar in which the school year is divided into quarters instead of two semesters. New Orleans Museum of Art Curator Katie Pfohl joins us to discuss her new exhibit at NOMA, NEW

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Louisiana Considered: Proposal To Move New Orleans’...

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2021/06/21

Patrick Madden hosted this episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO City Hall Reporter Ryan Nelsen joins us to discuss New Orleans mayor Latoya Cantrell’s proposal to move New Orleans City Hall to the city’s Municipal Auditorium, which hundreds of community members protested last week. Louisiana author and director of the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans M.O. Walsh’s novel “The Big Door Prize'' is being produced as a television series on Apple TV+. Walsh was born

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Louisiana Considered: Perspectives On Changes To...

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2021/06/18

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Step Up Louisiana member Juan Cruz and his organization advocate for progressive reform to Louisiana’s economic policies, including unemployment insurance. Cruz joins us to advocate for increasing the state’s unemployment insurance payouts and keeping the federal unemployment boost for as long as possible. Senior Director of Business Intelligence at the Baton Rouge Area Chamber Andrew Fitzgerald joins us to advocate for

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Louisiana Considered: The Big Door Prize, National...

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2021/06/17

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Louisiana author and director of the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans M.O. Walsh’s novel “The Big Door Prize'' is being produced as a television series on Apple TV+. Walsh was born and raised in Baton Rouge and his fiction and essays have appeared in notable publications like the Guardian, the New York Times, the Southern Review and others. Restaurateur Dickie Brennan, owner of the Bourbon

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Louisiana Considered: How Ronald Greene’s Family Is...

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2021/06/15

Patrick Madden hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Criminal Justice Reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick describes the coverup of the truth behind Ronald Greene’s death while in the custody of Louisiana State Police Troop F. Bobbi-Jeanne also interviewed Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin; her attorneys, Ronald Haley and Lee Merritt, and TV Journalist Perry Robinson. Civil Rights Attorney Ronald Haley tells us about the legal proceedings in the case of Ronald Greene and

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Louisiana Considered: The Chicago Defender’s...

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2021/06/14

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Author Ethan Michaeli discusses his recent article in the magazine 64 Parishes, Louisiana and the Defender, about how the Black-owned newspaper the Chicago Defender covered stories from Louisiana during the 20th century. The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra’s new Executive Director, Anwar Nasir, tells us about his plans for the LPO and what he brings to the Orchestra with his backgrounds in professional dancing, arts

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Louisiana Considered: Final Day Of State Legislative...

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2021/06/10

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WRKF/WWNO Capitol Access Reporter Paul Braun gives us the latest updates from the statehouse on the final day of the legislative session. East Baton Rouge Parish Housing Authority CEO J. Wesley Daniels, Jr. explains how the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit, which funds internet access for those struggling to afford it, can help people cross the “digital divide” and gain access to education and jobs online. WWNO’s Karl Lengel

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Louisiana Considered: Bicycle Safety In South Louisiana

Louisiana Considered ·

2021/06/09

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Bike Easy Executive Director Dan Favre and Bike Baton Rouge Founder Mark E. Martin discuss the state of bicycle safety and plans for bike path development in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Louisiana Considered: A Tribute To Ellis Marsalis And...

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2021/06/08

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Dancer, choreographer and dance school director Lula Elzy and jazz saxophonist Derek Douget talk about the Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre’s upcoming 30th Anniversary Celebration: A Tribute To Ellis Marsalis and Carol Sutton. WWNO/WRKF Public Health Reporter Rosemary Westwood spoke with LSU Professors Robert Mann and Meredith Veldman, who both support a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students and faculty this fall

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Louisiana Considered: Court Watch NOLA Releases...

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2021/06/07

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Criminal and Social Justice Reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick speaks with Court Watch NOLA Deputy Director Veronica Bard and Executive Director Simone Levine about the watchdog organization’s findings in its 2020 annual report. WWNO Lead Coastal Reporter Tegan Wendland visits Lincoln Beach, which was shut down by New Orleans’ city government decades ago, and speaks with New Orleans for Lincoln Beach cofounders

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