AGR - Louisiana Edition

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for July 7, 2026. We open with a question that's becoming harder to ignore: have we become so politically tribal that we've stopped judging people by their actions? We examine the bizarre case of a volunteer with the effort to recall Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry who is accused of carjacking a...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for July 6, 2026. On this episode of American Ground Radio, we kick things off with a tough conversation about crime, repeat offenders, and the responsibility of business owners, law enforcement, and elected officials after a Shreveport police officer was shot outside a nightclub. Is the proble...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 30, 2026. We open with one of the biggest Supreme Court decisions of the year as the justices strike down President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship. We explain why the debate centers on just four words in the 14th Amendment—"subject to the jurisdiction thereof"—an...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 29, 2026. We kick things off with a look at Louisiana's Senate runoff and what the results say about voter turnout, Republican unity, and the growing influence of President Trump's endorsement. Was this election decided by enthusiasm, strategy, or something else entirely? From there, w...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 26, 2026. This episode covers everything from Louisiana politics to the future of the Democratic Party—and the stakes couldn't be higher. We start with Governor Jeff Landry's latest moves to reshape LSU, including new appointments to the Board of Supervisors and what they could mean fo...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 25, 2026. We open with Governor Jeff Landry sending what can only be described as a fiscal message to New Orleans — vetoing more than $12 million in state construction funding tied to city projects, including a new city hall, an early learning center, and Habitat NOLA housing infrastru...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 24, 2026. Fresh off our trip to Times Square, we return home with a renewed appreciation for Louisiana after a conversation with a family that recently relocated from Washington, D.C. Their enthusiasm for Shreveport raises a simple question: have we become so focused on our state's pro...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 23, 2026. Broadcasting from the heart of Times Square, we take a step back from the daily headlines to reflect on what makes America unique as the nation approaches its 250th birthday. Surrounded by people from every corner of the world, we discuss the enduring promise of the American...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 19, 2026. We open with Louisiana's ongoing teacher pay raise battle and the growing debate over who should control education funding. Governor Jeff Landry says teachers deserve more money, a judge says the Constitution says otherwise, and local school districts are stepping in where st...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 18, 2026. We open with a creative legal challenge from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and a coalition of states asking whether the abortion drug mifepristone should be studied under the Safe Drinking Water Act. We break down the argument, the science, and the debate over whethe...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 17, 2026. We open with Senator Bill Cassidy taking another shot at President Trump, this time over the new Iran peace agreement. Cassidy invokes Ronald Reagan, claiming the former president would be "rolling over in his grave" over the deal. We examine whether that comparison holds up,...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 16, 2026. We open with a look at one of Louisiana's most contentious political races as a new Senate runoff poll raises questions about whether it's measuring voter opinion or trying to shape it. We break down the survey, the increasingly bitter battle between Julia Letlow and John Fle...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 15, 2026. We open with a 2028 presidential conversation nobody expected — Louisiana Senator John Kennedy has not ruled out a run for president, and people are approaching his donors about it. We debate whether Kennedy's legendary Senate skills translate to executive leadership, invoke...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 12, 2026. We open with a controversy that may be a preview of the future of American politics. An AI-generated campaign video has exploded into the Louisiana Senate runoff, drawing condemnation from Governor Jeff Landry, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and others. We examine the d...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 11, 2026. We open with a local idea that could help solve a national problem. With law enforcement agencies across Louisiana struggling to fill vacancies, officials in Shreveport and Caddo Parish are launching an effort to recruit military police officers leaving Barksdale Air Force Ba...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 10, 2026. We open with two major election integrity reforms taking effect in Louisiana that supporters say will strengthen confidence in the voting process. One law eliminates provisional ballots for voters who fail to provide proper identification, while another requires voter registr...

We open with a Louisiana education funding decision that has a June 23rd deadline — Governor Landry's executive order to redirect $168 million from non-instructional school dollars into one-time stipends for teachers and support staff, preventing a de facto pay cut that kicks in July 1st. We work through the complications — the voters rejected the constitutional amendment that would have funded pe...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 8, 2026. We open with a Louisiana law that raises an obvious question: why did it take so long? After the Orleans Parish jailbreak exposed a stunning 10-hour delay in notifying the public that violent inmates had escaped, Governor Jeff Landry signed legislation requiring correctional f...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 5, 2026. We open with Governor Jeff Landry's first veto of the legislative session — and it's a surprising one. A bill that passed both chambers of the Louisiana legislature unanimously, with zero opposition votes, would have increased compensation for wrongfully convicted and later ex...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 4, 2026. We open with a Louisiana bill sitting on Governor Landry's desk that sounds great on the surface and is actually terrible policy — Senator Beth Mizell's bill to ban retail surcharges on debit card transactions. We explain why this is not a conservative principle, why it will n...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 3, 2026. We open with a local Caddo Parish controversy that reveals something much larger about modern American politics: the rise of performative government. After a parish commissioner vowed to keep reintroducing a resolution opposing Louisiana's congressional maps "until kingdom com...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 2, 2026. We open with a local controversy that reveals a much larger problem in American politics: what happens when elected officials stop seeing themselves as public servants and start seeing themselves as gatekeepers. A Caddo Parish commissioner publicly complained that Speaker Mike...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for June 1, 2026. We open with a deceptively simple question that turns into something much bigger: why do so many communities tolerate visible decline? A mayoral campaign in Shreveport built around picking up litter sparks a broader conversation about the line between government responsibility...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for May 29, 2026. We open with a conversation about purpose, work, and the mindset that shapes our lives. Is America really a nation working for the weekend, or have we lost sight of the deeper purpose behind what we do every day? We explore the difference between merely surviving the workweek...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for May 28, 2026. We open with a blistering response to Congressman Cleo Fields and the NAACP’s growing push to pressure black student-athletes away from universities in states they label “racist” over congressional redistricting disputes. We break down the Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana’s c...