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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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Whooping cough rates surge; LABI releases annual...

Louisiana Considered ·

2025/09/10

Louisiana is dealing with its worst whooping cough outbreak in decades. Hospitalizations have continued to rise over the summer, and two babies have died. Health reporter Rosemary Westwood joins us for more on the outbreak and why the disease is so dangerous for young babies.The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) has released its annual scorecard, an analysis of the legislature’s performance on a number of policy issues from a business and industry perspective including

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How a new AI data center is turning a small town into...

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2025/09/09

Earlier this year, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, broke ground on a $10 billion data center for artificial intelligence in the middle of a Louisiana cornfield. Located in the town of Holly Ridge, the unfinished data center is already turning Richland Parish into a boomtown.Stephanie Riegel has been covering this for the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate. She tells us about her recent trip to the region.Renowned painter, author and illustrator Alex Beard might be known for his Magazine

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How NOLA jazz funeral has evolved; findings on...

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2025/09/08

The nonpartisan, public policy organization, Leaders for a Better Louisiana, recently released its latest Louisiana Fact Book. It’s a list of 35 indicators over five key areas used to measure the state’s overall wellbeing. The organization’s chief policy officer, Barry Erwin, joins us to discuss this year’s slight upward trend.The documentary “City of A Million Dreams - Parading for The Dead In New Orleans” explores the history and evolution of the New Orleans jazz funeral. That final

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Sea Change: A Train Ride Through Katrina's Legacy

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2025/09/05

For the first time since Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago, you can take a train ride across the Gulf Coast, from Mobile to New Orleans. And all these years later, the cities along that route are still living with the storm's aftermath. In this episode, we hop aboard the train and make four Gulf Coast stops along the way to share that story. About what happened during Katrina. How some places built back better, and how others are still trying to figure out how to rebuild.---This

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Will Trump send National Guard to NOLA?; concerns...

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2025/09/04

It’s Thursday, and time for our Week in Politics with the Times Picayune’s/The Advocate’s editorial director and columnist, Stephanie Grace. Today, we discuss President Trump’s proposal to send the National Guard to New Orleans and how Gov. Jeff Landry has responded. Ask anyone in New Orleans, and they know: Hurricane Katrina was such a devastating disaster because of the catastrophic failure of the city’s levee system. In the storm’s wake, the federal government built an entirely new levee

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What happens to inmates convicted by split juries;...

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2025/09/03

In 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that non-unanimous jury verdicts – previously legal only in Louisiana and Oregon – were unconstitutional. Yet there are more than one thousand people in our state who had been convicted by non-unanimous juries before the court ruling and who remain behind bars. Richard Webster joins us for more on what happens next to those who have been convicted by split juries.Last month, Second Harvest Food Bank announced it will open two new facilities in south

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Culture Collision returns to NOMA; why coastal Miss....

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2025/09/02

The New Orleans arts community, which was scattered across the nation post-Katrina in 2005, provided a healing balm for the city when artists finally made their way back home. Fast forward to 2008, an idea spawned at WWNO by general manager Paul Maassen provided a platform for those struggling artists to bring the community together.That platform is what we now know as Culture Collision, a preview of the arts and cultural season, which is celebrating 15 years. WWNO business manager and

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20 years ago, these pre-K students wrote a book about...

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2025/08/29

When Hurricane Katrina happened 20 years ago, 4-year-old Nigel Tapp evacuated from the Lower Ninth Ward to Montclair, New Jersey – the hometown of managing producer Alana Schreiber. When his pre-K classmates learned that his family had lost their house to the storm, they wrote a book and sold it to raise money. Twenty years after Katrina – and the publication of “Nigel and the Hurricane,” Schreiber reunited Nigel with his classmates and the pre-K teacher who started it all.Check out the

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20 years since Katina: How the Vietnamese community...

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2025/08/28

When Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago, New Orleans East was especially hard hit. This part of the city is home to a large Vietnamese population, many of whom had experienced fleeing their home in the aftermath of the Fall of Saigon. Yet the Vietnamese community bounced back, in larger numbers, and at a faster rate than many other enclaves. Cyndi Nguyen is a New Orleans East resident and former city council woman who currently serves as the community outreach strategist for New

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20 years since Katrina: veteran journalists reflect...

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2025/08/27

When Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago, many residents were looking to find their way out of New Orleans, but journalists were descending upon the city looking for a way in. In the days and weeks that followed, the country was overwhelmed with a variety of media narratives, as journalists worked to report honestly on the situation without ignoring the fear and desperation they saw. For many, they had to toe the line between telling the story and getting involved in the

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20 years since Katrina: impact on teachers, schools;...

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2025/08/26

After Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans 20 years ago, public education in the city came to a complete stop. And when schools reopened, many of the city's educators didn't get their jobs back. Instead, they were replaced with young people who were new to teaching and new to New Orleans.Education reporter Aubri Juhasz spoke with two teachers on opposite sides of that divide.While all New Orleans public schools were forced into this all-charter system, the ways in which the schools bounced

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20 years since Katrina: Climate change, ecological...

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2025/08/26

Hurricane Katrina destroyed an estimated 320 million trees in the Gulf Coast. This was not only a dramatic shift in the look of the landscape, but left the region more vulnerable to further disasters without the trees to absorb carbon and intercept stormwater.Over the last 20 years, NOLA Tree Project has planted tens of thousands of trees to help rebuild New Orleans’ canopy. Executive director Connie Uddo joins us to talk about the project. .Climate change is making hurricanes stronger than

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Sea Change Live: 20 Years After Katrina

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2025/08/22

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath reshaped New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we gathered to remember all that was lost, reflect on the lessons learned, and pay tribute to all the good that has been done in the two decades since. And, we look to the future: where do we go from here, and how can this region not just survive but thrive?Renowned jazz musician Dr. Michael White performs original music written in response to Katrina and reflects on connections

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Events to mark 20 years since Katrina; Louisiana...

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2025/08/21

The Katrina 20 Local Planning Committee is commemorating Hurricane Katrina with performances, art and more, throughout the city, stretching to Mississippi and Alabama.The Coastal Desk’s Eva Tesfaye spoke with Asali deVan Ecclesiastes, executive director of the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, to learn more about the events and how you can get involved. For months, the Trump administration has been cutting funding for university-based scientific research across the nation. But the Louisiana

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Hip-hop musical commemorates Hurricane Katrina;...

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2025/08/19

MakeGood is a New Orleans-based nonprofit that creates custom-designed, 3D-printed prosthetics for people with disabilities and limb differences. We speak with Noam Platt, the organization’s founder, and James Robert III, director of advanced fabrication, about how the group works directly with people to design devices tailored to their needs.Next week, more than 75 young New Orleans actors will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with “504: The Hip-Hop Musical,” a

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History of New Orleans’ Desire Area: misconceptions,...

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2025/08/15

It’s been nearly 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall, destroying countless communities in its wake. One neighborhood that suffered the wrath of the storm and never fully recovered is the Desire Area in the Upper Ninth Ward. Back in 2018, NPR’s Laine Kaplan Levinson reported on the history of this neighborhood and misconceptions about an area known for its public housing. Today, we give that story a second listen.WWNO and WRKF have partnered with the producers of the PBS

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Updates on NOLA mayor’s race; Jefferson Parish loses...

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2025/08/14

It’s Thursday and that means it’s time to catch up on politics with The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate’s editorial director and columnist, Stephanie Grace. Today we hear about the latest polls, dropouts and endorsements in New Orleans’ mayor’s race.At the end of July, Jefferson Parish lost its bond rating. It wasn’t downgraded or reduced – it was lost completely, pulled by Moody’s and S&S Global Ratings. The Times Picayune/New Orleans Advocate’s Lara Nicholson has been covering

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SNAP cuts impact local grocers; urban planning...

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2025/08/13

Steep cuts are coming to SNAP benefits, better known as food stamps. And that’s bad news for grocery stores that see the bulk of their sales from SNAP dollars. The Gulf States Newsroom’s Stephan Bisaha reports from one independent grocery store in Alabama bracing for the cuts.An unprecedented natural disaster is a dramatic way to learn hard lessons about how we plan and construct our cities. Yet Hurricane Katrina, 20 years ago, did just that for New Orleans. Since Katrina, New Orleans has

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Public library to host first all-children’s book...

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2025/08/12

The Friends of the New Orleans Public Library organization is holding its first-ever all-children’s book sale. And it comes as a new school year begins. The organization’s director, Shannan Cvitanovic tells us more about the event and who is invited. The NOLA Project: Theatre for the BOLD, recently announced its 2025-26 season, and this year’s works revolve around iconic texts. Artistic Director Tenaj Wallace joins us with a sneak peek at what’s to come.The StoryCorps Mobile Tour visited

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Back-to-school changes in Baton Rouge; “The Tempest”...

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2025/08/11

August signals the end of summer break, and students across Louisiana are heading back into the classroom. Monday is the first day of school for public school students in Orleans, Jefferson and Lafayette parishes. Students in Baton Rouge returned to class last week – and were met with a host of changes.Charles Lussier covers education for The Baton Rouge Advocate. He joins us to break down those changes.The Louisiana Shakespeare Company is presenting an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s

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