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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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Summer Lyric Theatre closes season with ‘Pippin’;...

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2024/07/30

The Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University closes its season with Pippin. Director and choreographer Diane Lala and actress Chase Kamata give us all the details behind the production of this timeless rock musical. Beginning on Aug. 10, the 2024 Congrès Mundian Acadien will celebrate Acadian diaspora and history. Held in Nova Scotia, this event is not only a time to honor Acadian culture but also to serve as a reunion, inviting Cajun guests from across the globe to return to their

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Louisianans with disabilities concerned over new...

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2024/07/29

On Aug. 1, a slew of new laws passed by the state legislature in the spring will go into effect. Among them are sweeping changes to Louisiana’s absentee voting system, and many are worried this will make it tougher to vote by mail for November’s elections. Times Picayune/The Advocate’s Megan Friedmann tells us more about these laws and why critics are concerned. Then, WWNO and WRKF’s Matt Bloom speaks with Andrew Bizer, a lawyer for Disability Rights Louisiana, to hear why his advocacy

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Shreveport paracanoe athlete and prosthetist Jillian...

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2024/07/26

The 2024 Paris Olympics have officially begun, and Louisiana is boasting plenty of Olympians this year, both LSU students and Bayou State natives. But we also have no shortage of para-athletes gearing up for their own games beginning on Aug. 28.One of those athletes is Jillian Elwart, a paracanoe racer getting ready for her Paralympic debut. She is also a certified prosthetist at Shriners Children’s in Shreveport, the same hospital where she was once treated. She joins us to talk about her

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Why thousands of Louisianans are losing SNAP...

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2024/07/25

In the last few months, more than 15,000 Louisianans have been kicked off of food stamps. This comes after COVID-era work requirement waivers expired, with most Louisiana residents losing SNAP benefits in January. Nick Chrastil, a reporter for The Lens NOLA, tells us why thousands more Louisianans are expected to lose their benefits due to a new state law. On Sunday, President Biden announced that he was officially dropping out of the presidential race. Shortly thereafter, he endorsed Vice

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Louisiana’s role in NASA’s upcoming moon mission;...

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2024/07/24

The push to unionize auto plants in the South appears to have lost momentum. This comes after a big loss in May when workers at a Mercedes factory rejected joining the United Auto Workers.Stephan Bisaha of the Gulf States Newsroom visited the UAW’s campaign in Montgomery, Alabama to learn why it’s so hard to unionize in the Deep South.Last week, the large core of the Artemis II moon rocket left an assembling facility in Michoud, Louisiana and headed for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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Hurricane season forecast; ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’...

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2024/07/23

In the last few weeks, Hurricane Beryl tore through the Caribbean, made landfall in Texas and continued northward. As it drowned Houston in floodwaters, leaving millions without power, some impacts were felt in west and southwest Louisiana.The Coastal Desk’s Eva Tesfaye talked with state climatologist Jay Grymes about what Hurricane Beryl can tell us about the rest of Louisiana’s hurricane season.The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company is gearing up for a presentation of A Streetcar Named

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Biden drops out; new laws restrict photo sharing; how...

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2024/07/22

On Sunday, President Joe Biden announced that he will not seek re-election. This comes after weeks of calls for him to step down amid concerns about his age after a poor debate performance and concerns over his age. Shortly after his announcement, he endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination.Times Picayune/New Orleans Advocate’s editorial director and columnist, Stephanie Grace joins us for more on what this means for Louisiana and the nation. Next month, three

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Gravy: A Shrimp Boat Blessing with no Shrimp Boats

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2024/07/19

Fishing has long been a dangerous and capricious industry, where luck – in harvests, weather, accidents – has almost as much to do with a captain’s success as his skill. The annual blessing, an old European tradition established in Bayou La Batre by a Catholic family of transplants from Louisiana, was a bulwark to ever-present risks. Shrimp boat captains would decorate their boats with festive flags and parade along the bayou, receiving a blessing from the Archbishop of Mobile, a little

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NAMI merges New Orleans and St. Tammany chapters;...

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2024/07/18

It’s day two of qualifying for November elections and there are already candidates vying to represent Louisiana’s new majority-Black congressional district. The Times Picayune/New Orleans Advocate’s editorial director and columnist Stephanie Grace tells us who is entering this race.The National Alliance on Mental Illness in New Orleans is officially merging chapters with the St. Tammany Parish branch. Now the larger consolidation will serve nine parishes in most of the southeastern part of

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Update on Baton Rouge superintendent search; Report...

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2024/07/17

The East Baton Rouge Parish school system remains without a permanent superintendent after board members delayed their vote on a final pick last week. On Monday night, another finalist dropped out of the running. The process has drawn criticism from community groups and teacher unions. They argue the current interim superintendent Adam Smith should get the job. But he wasn’t even selected as a finalist. Our reporter Matt Bloom has been following this story. He spoke with WWNO’s Bob

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La. trampoline gymnast Alexi Shostak heads to Paris...

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2024/07/16

Terrance Winn loved sports, was a smart student and planned to go to college. And then at 16, he was arrested for murder, charged as an adult and sentenced to life in prison.30 years later, Winn was released. He’s now a prison reform advocate and the director of a group that helps mentor kids and keep them out of jail.In the final installment of our series on gun violence in Shreveport, the Gulf States Newsroom’s Kat Stromquist spoke with Winn about his efforts to reduce crime in the area

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How three Louisianans wound up playing baseball in...

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2024/07/15

July 15, marks the start of the PBS Short Film Festival. The festival is designed to increase the visibility of independent films, and for the 11th straight year in a row, a film nominated by Louisiana Public Broadcasting has made the list. This year's film, The Ballad of Rose Mae, is a musical drama by Baton Rouge filmmakers Gray Fagan and Bailey Wax. They join us now for more on their filmmaking journey and partnership that began in a high school acting class. If you’re a Louisianan

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Former Saints player and ALS patient and advocate...

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2024/07/12

On Thursday July 11, Steve Gleason was honored at the ESPY awards with the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage. The former Saints player first rose to fame when he blocked a punt against the Atlanta Falcons in the team’s first game back in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. But in the years since, Gleason’s been living with ALS, a disease that attacks nerve cells and renders patients unable to move, speak and breathe on their own. Still, Gleason has had some extraordinary accomplishments

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How to talk to your loved one about Alzheimer’s; for...

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2024/07/11

There are nearly 100,000 people in Louisiana living with Alzheimer’s disease, many of whom rely on family to care for them. But what about the young children who are encountering a beloved grandparent or older adult with the disease. How do they deal with the big emotions that come with their encounters?There’s a new children’s book, due to be published in September, entitled NANA, NANA, a story of a grandchild and his grandmother as she moves through the stages of Alzheimer’s. Author Nate

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Judge orders health and safety measures for farm line...

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2024/07/10

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is famous for its ruthless working conditions for inmates on the farm line. In fact, many even refer to the prison simply as “The Farm.”But now, a judge ordered Angola officials to consider the health and safety needs of incarcerated people and take immediate measures to “correct the glaring deficiencies in their heat-related policies.”Katy Reckdahl has been covering this story for The Lens and joins us for an update. The National Academies of

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Coastal advocates voice concerns over Landry...

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2024/07/09

Governor Jeff Landry’s administration wants to overhaul how the state manages its natural resources. Part of the push could mean big changes for the agency responsible for restoring Louisiana’s coastline. As the Coastal Desk’s Halle Parker reports, coastal advocates fear any changes could undermine coastal restoration.A dozen top emerging pianists from around the globe are coming to the Crescent City this week to compete at the 29th New Orleans International Piano Competition presented by

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New climate initiatives from Big Freedia, the Hip Hop...

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2024/07/08

As gun violence persists in the Gulf South, community members in Shreveport, Louisiana are reckoning with last year's mass shootings and murders. And locals are pointing to the area's history of mass incarceration as a contributing factor.In part two of our series on gun violence in the region, the Gulf States Newsroom's Kat Stromquist traveled to Northern Louisiana and met residents who say decades of locking people up hasn't worked.In the U.S., Black Americans are 40 percent more likely

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Sea Change: Coastal Cities for the Future

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2024/07/05

Most of the world's biggest cities are on the coast. As sea levels rise and storms worsen, how can we reimagine our coastal cities so that they can survive and thrive in the face of climate change? Today we talk with leaders across from Nigeria, Portugal, California and Alabama about how they’re fighting for the future of their cities. Sea Change is a WWNO and WRKF production. We're a part of the NPR Podcast Network and distributed by PRX. SeaChange is made possible with major support from

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Many La. rural health clinics face closure; UNO team...

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2024/07/03

Louisiana’s unpopular “constitutional carry” law goes into effect on Independence Day. It allows anyone over 18 to carry a concealed firearm without a permit or specialized training. Stephanie Grace, editorial director and columnist for The Advocate | The Times-Picayune, discusses how residents and police are preparing for the new rules.More than 25% of Louisiana’s rural hospitals are “vulnerable to closure,” according to a report released earlier this year by Chartis, a healthcare

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Gov. Landry cuts funding to support emergency...

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2024/07/02

Last week, Governor Landry vetoed $1 million in funding allocated to Catholic Charities of Acadiana. The veto is a major blow to the organization that works to address homelessness and provide emergency shelter in the Lafayette area. Christiaan Mader is the founder of the Current and has been covering this story. He tells us more about who will be impacted by this loss in funding. “One More Game,” is a new photography exhibit by Camille Farrah Lenain that documents the Rougaroux, a New

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