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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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Impacts of La.’s ‘three strikes law;’ exploring...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/09/13

Louisiana’s habitual offender law has been in place since 2009. Often referred to as a “three strikes” rule, it’s a controversial law that allows judges to put people convicted of certain crimes in prison for extended sentences, if they’ve had previous felony convictions. A recent effort attempted to undo this law, but last week the Louisiana Supreme Court struck down the changes. Reporter Richard Webster has been covering the habitual offender law for Verite News and ProPublica. He joins

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La. school district sues TikTok, Instagram; Tennessee...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/09/12

The Livingston Parish school district is suing TikTok and Instagram, saying the social media apps have built addictive platforms that caused a mental health crisis among teenagers. The district is also suing two internet service providers, alleging that they are responsible for facilitating minors’ access to social media platforms. Jacqueline DeRobertis, who covers Livingston Parish for The Advocate newspaper has been reporting on the lawsuit – and walks us through the details. A

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New grant to study maternal mortality; reflections...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/09/11

Tulane University, Ochsner Health and the nonprofit RH Impact were awarded a seven-year $16.5 million grant in August to research Louisiana’s high maternal mortality rate. The money will help establish the Southern Center for Maternal Health Equity, which will aim to research and find solutions for pregnancy-related complications and deaths. Dr. Joseph Biggio, OB-GYN and system chair for the Maternal Fetal Medicine department at Ochsner, and Carmen Green, vice president of research and

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Sea Change Presents: Outside/In ‘Windfall’

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/09/08

Today marks the beginning of a whole new industry here in the Gulf of Mexico: offshore wind energy. The Biden administration opened the first-ever wind lease sale in the Gulf, and 300,000 acres of the Gulf will be auctioned off. Companies will now bid for the rights to put giant wind turbines off the coast of southwest Louisiana and east Texas. It’s a big day to say the least. And there’s been a whole lot of excitement leading up to the lease sale. It even has bipartisan support. And this

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Gubernatorial debate preview; school mental health...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/09/07

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in Louisiana and nationwide. According to the Orleans Parish School District, more than 60 children have been shot this year and 19 have died. Even as violent crime in general is dropping, the percentage of gun deaths of children under the age of 18 has increased nationally. In response, New Orleans public schools are taking a more active role in preventing and responding to violence by focusing on student mental health, conflict

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Diverse candidates run for sheriff; Baton Rouge...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/09/06

News broke last week of an unmonitored interrogation facility at a Baton Rouge Police warehouse, dubbed “the Brave Cave.” One officer resigned shortly after the news broke and others have been reassigned. Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome announced Thursday that the Baton Rouge Police Department’s street crimes unit had been disbanded. She joins us today to discuss how the “Brave Cave” happened, what’s being done to address it, and how the scandal might impact Baton Rouge’s

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Remembering David Berger – New Orleans Jewish...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/09/05

Today – Sept. 5, 2023 – marks 51 years since the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics, when members of a Palestinian terrorist organization murdered 11 athletes competing for Israel. One of the victims was David Berger, a Jewish-American Tulane graduate who lived in New Orleans before moving to Israel, the country he would represent as a weightlifter on the world stage. Lafayette attorney and Cajun historian Warren Perrin’s recent book, “The Weight of History, the Power of Apology,”

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Sea Change: Expand Your Blue Mind Part 2

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/09/01

It's summertime. Most of us hope to spend time on the beach, or by a river, or a pool, and we thought we'd try to understand why? Why do we want to be by water, and why does it make us feel so good? And it’s not just us. Understanding how the power of water makes us healthier and happier is actually a growing field of research. Today, we're diving into our human connection to oceans and how we can harness that love of water to help us protect the largest gulf in the world -- our own Gulf of

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BRPD ‘Brave Cave’; efforts to report labor...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/31

The Baton Rouge Police Department is under scrutiny after news broke of its so-called “Brave Cave,” a BRPD warehouse at police that was allegedly used as an unmonitored interrogation room. One BRPD officer resigned shortly after the facility’s existence was reported Tuesday. Lara Nicholson has been covering this story for the Baton Rouge Advocate and she joins us for more. Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Workplace Justice Project in New Orleans signed a memorandum

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As Tiger Island fire rages on, Ag commissioner Mike...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/30

Last week, a series of wildfires broke out in Beauregard Parish in southwestern Louisiana, near the Texas border. Several communities received evacuation orders and the parish sheriff’s office estimates that 40,000 acres have burned so far. According to the most recent reports from Wednesday August 30, the fire is 50 percent contained – but dry vegetation and high winds are beginning to push the flames east. Mike Strain, Louisiana’s commissioner of agriculture and forestry, gives us the

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Why the EPA dropped civil rights investigation in...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/29

In the final days of June, the federal Environmental Protection Agency suddenly closed what environmental advocates once hailed as a landmark civil rights investigation into Louisiana’s permitting process for industrial projects. The investigation’s abrupt closure came after months of negotiations between Louisiana’s Department of Environmental Quality and federal regulators. The year-plus investigation was closed without a resolution – and the EPA didn’t explain why. The Coastal Desk’s

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New program invites leaders to experience La. in...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/28

Earlier this summer we spoke with Mark Raymond Jr., who has been fighting for more accessible buildings and services in New Orleans since a boating accident left him partially paralyzed in 2016. Raymond’s Split Second Foundation built New Orleans' first gym designed for people with disabilities. Now, he’s running the “Roll with Me” campaign, a program in which he invites local civic leaders to navigate their cities in wheelchairs. He hopes the effort will help them better understand the

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Sea Change: Expand Your Blue Mind Part 1

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/25

It's summertime. Most of us hope to spend time on the beach, or by a river, or a pool, and we thought we'd try to understand why? Why do we want to be by water, and why does it make us feel so good? And it’s not just us. Understanding how the power of water makes us healthier and happier is actually a growing field of research.Today, we're diving into our human connection to oceans and how we can harness that love of water to help us protect the largest gulf in the world -- our own Gulf of

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Latest on minors at Angola — plus the psychological...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/24

Last year, the state of Louisiana moved dozens of incarcerated children to an old death row facility at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the largest maximum security prison in the country. Advocates say the kids — mostly Black youth — are suffering from isolation and extreme heat. And at a recent hearing in Baton Rouge, civil rights lawyers asked a federal judge to take emergency action to remove them from the facility. Bobbi-Jeane Misick, a reporter for Verite, has been

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How one LSU student responded to a tragedy with a...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/23

It’s not easy to picture what’s in the air we breathe. But earlier this month, a researcher debuted a new tool that could help visualize pollution in the Gulf South region. The Coastal Desk’s Halle Parker tells us how some environmental groups are already using the new device.Baton Rouge’s Tigerland district, near Louisiana State University, is a popular after-hours hangout for college students, when the bars fill up and the beverages flow freely. But after her friend was hit by a car while

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New book looks at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/22

This month marks 18 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the southeastern United States, uprooting the lives of many who lived in New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf states. It took the storm only a matter of days to wreak havoc on the region. But it took – and continues to take – years to repair all of the damage, which is just as much emotional and psychological as it is physical. In his new book, “Connecting After Chaos,” Tulane professor Stephen Ostertag writes about the

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School canceled in Baton Rouge after bus drivers...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/21

Public schools in Baton Rouge canceled classes Monday after an employee sickout that began with bus drivers expanded over the weekend to include cafeteria workers. Charles Lussier, reporter for the Baton Rouge Advocate, tells us about the conditions that led to the strike and negotiations between school officials and union representatives. After 82 years, a Louisiana sailor who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has finally been identified. The

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Sea Change: The Craft of Climate Writing

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/18

Today on Louisiana Considered, we bring you the latest episode of our climate change podcast, Sea Change. Humans have always used stories to make sense of the world…that’s just how our brains work. And, so it makes sense that we need stories to help us understand the enormity of climate change. Today, we talk with Jeff Goodell, Katharine Wilkinson, and Nathaniel Rich — three authors who write books that people want to read… maybe can’t put down… about the biggest existential threat of our

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More than half of Louisianans have experienced...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/17

More than half of Louisiana residents have experienced physical violence in their lifetimes. One in five Louisianans has been threatened or harmed with a gun. Researchers at Tulane University have been studying the impacts of people’s experiences with violence in the Louisiana Study on Violence Experiences Across the Lifespan. Anita Raj, executive director of Tulane’s Newcomb Institute, led the study. She joins us to discuss her team’s findings, and how the research could be used to

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Shreveport Little Theatre’s history chronicled in new...

Louisiana Considered ·

2023/08/16

Last week, the state broke ground on its costliest and most controversial project aimed at rebuilding Louisiana’s degraded coastline and maintaining the marsh as sea levels continue to rise. Located in Plaquemines Parish, the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion will totally alter the landscape off the parish’s west bank. The Coastal Desk’s Halle Parker joins to tell us more about the project and the future of Louisiana’s coastal restoration efforts. Robert Darrow, managing director and

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