AGR - Louisiana Edition

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 15, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 12, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 11, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 10, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 9, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 8, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 5, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 4, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 3, 2025.  We break down the exploding growth of AI data centers and why neighbors are shouting “not in my backyard!” even as the numbers tell a different story. Do these massive facilities really spike energy bills and drain local water supplies — or could they actually lower costs...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 2, 2025.  We react to the uproar in New Orleans as protesters hit the streets chanting against ICE and Operation Swamp Sweep. Their message? “Immigrants are welcome here.” But this fight isn't about immigrants. It’s about illegal re-entry, ignored deportation orders, criminal fugit...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 1, 2025.  We dive into the news shaking LSU Nation: the hiring of Lane Kiffin — and the eye-popping $90 million price tag attached to him. Has America officially lost its mind? How is it that a college football coach can command a salary that would make CEOs blush, while teachers s...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for November 26, 2025.  New Orleans is trying something… unconventional. With the police department hemorrhaging officers and non-emergency response times stretching into hours, the city has outsourced traffic-accident calls to a private company called On Scene Services. No badge, no gun, no ar...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 25, 2025.  Louisiana lawmakers have quietly signed off on one of the biggest financial decisions in state history — a one-year extension of six massive Medicaid managed-care contracts totaling an eye-popping $17 billion. And yes, this happened while the legislature wasn’t even in s...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for November 24, 2025.  A new lawsuit in Louisiana is taking dead aim at something the state should’ve never approved in the first place: letting private carbon-capture companies use eminent domain to seize private land for their own profit. And look, eminent domain is supposed to be for public...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for November 21, 2025.  As we head into the new year, Louisiana’s got a batch of new laws taking effect January 1st… but one of them is raising eyebrows in a big way. House Bill 681 — signed earlier this year — was supposed to protect elected officials from doxing and harassment. Sounds reasona...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 20, 2025. We dig into a Louisiana law most people have never even heard of—Act 479, the state’s new rules on seclusion and restraint for special-needs students. It’s one of those issues politicians tiptoe around, activists oversimplify, and school boards quietly dread. But parents...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 19, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 18, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 17, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 14, 2025.  We dig into Louisiana’s latest political absurdity—an ethics loophole so wild it practically rewrites the definition of “ethics.” While casino executives are banned from making political donations, the Louisiana Board of Ethics has decided their sports-betting subsidiarie...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for November 12, 2025.  We break down the politics and implications of the latest government shutdown—and why Democrats are scrambling to pin the fallout on President Trump. We examine how the shutdown began, what it cost the country, and why the Democratic Party is struggling to defend a strat...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 11, 2025.   Shreveport City Council member Jim Taliaferro

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for November 10, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for November 7, 2025. 

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 6, 2025. 0:30 The state of Louisiana has agreed to let New Orleans borrow $125 million to keep the city afloat — without taking control of its finances. We unpack what that really means for taxpayers and why some say it’s rewarding bad behavior rather than fixing a broken system. W...