Louisiana Considered

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF education reporter Aubri Juhasz speaks with the Center for Learner Equity’s Jennifer Coco about a recently-published guide that helps New Orleans parents of children with disabilities to find schools with the right special education programs for their children. Aubri also visits New Orleans’ first academy for English la...

Adam Vos hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered, Louisiana Association of Educators President Tia Mills discusses what parents, educators and students can expect if the federal Build Back Better Act is passed. BRAC Senior Vice President of Business Intelligence Andrew Fitzgerald tells us how the Capital Region’s economy is expected to grow in 2022. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Actor Harry Shearer discusses the annual holiday charity event he hosts with his wife, Judith Owen : “Christmas Without Tears.” The event takes place next Tuesday and Wednesday at Le Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré in New Orleans. In an interview from this April, labor historian Jefferson Cowie discusses the first vote by Amazon war...

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Delta Festival Ballet Artistic Director Joseph Giacobbe discusses the ballet company’s 40th annual production of “The Nutcracker,” premiering this Saturday, Dec. 18 at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts. New Orleans School of Ballet Owner and Artistic Director Nikki Hefko discusses her school’s production of “The Nu...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO City Hall reporter Ryan Nelsen helps break down the results of Saturday’s elections. ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger discusses how an oil spill helped Louisiana fossil fuel billionaire Phyllis Taylor avoid paying any income taxes for 14 years. In excerpts from two past interviews, Nick Spitzer and Susan Larson interview novelist...

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Political consultant Karen Carvin Shachat discusses what candidates for public office in New Orleans are doing ahead of Saturday’s runoff elections. In an excerpt from American Routes, Mississippi-based blues guitarist Eddie Cotton, Jr. discusses his upbringing in Jackson and his musical heroes. WWNO City Hall...

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Louisiana Progress Policy and Advocacy Director Peter Robins-Brown discusses his organization’s congressional redistricting map projections, available for comparison to the current maps at louisiana.redistrictingandyou.org . The LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Dr. John Pardue discusses how the department tests...

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considere. Krewe of Red Beans’ Devin De Wulf chronicles the Krewe’s history and discusses Feed the Second Line , an effort to give back to the New Orleans community. Author Elizabeth Rush discusses the continuing impact of her 2018 book on how climate change affects human communities, “Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.” She als...

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. New Orleans Opera Director of Community Partnerships and Education Dr. Tara Melvin joins us to discuss The Storybook Project, a program that will use children’s books to introduce kids to classical music. Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans Executive Director Danielle Del Sol discusses this year’s Holiday Home Tour, which la...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF education reporter Aubri Juhasz reports on how Louisiana school boards submitted simulations of standardized test scores to account for a loss of learning time during the pandemic. Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Desare Frazier and WWNO/WRKF’s Rosemary Westwood speak with Mississippi Edition host Karen Brown about the...

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. New Orleans District A City Councilmember Joe Giarusso III discusses his re-election last month and his upcoming policy plans. The hosts discuss the upcoming Dec. 11 elections and today’s gubernatorial press conference on the COVID-19 omicron variant. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF News Director Patrick Madden discusses the potential impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in South Louisiana and the decision to carry NPR’s special coverage of the case’s opening arguments on air at both stations. WWNO/WRKF Public Health reporter Rosemary Westwood reports on the scene outside of the S...

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Desare Frazier and WWNO/WRKF’s Rosemary Westwood speak with Mississippi Edition host Karen Brown about the upcoming Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which will determine the future of abortion access in the United States. The Symphony Chorus of New Orleans’ Music Dire...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. In two episodes from WWNO’s podcast “TriPod: New Orleans at 300,” NPR’s Laine Kaplan-Levenson gives us the history of New Orleans’ forgotten WWII internment camp, Camp Algiers. Part one tells the story of how innocent Europeans living in Latin America were wrongfully kidnapped by FBI agents and brought to the camp. Part two detai...

Diane Mack hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. New Orleans Jazz Museum Director Greg Lambousy discusses two upcoming events: Sound Collage: A Celebration of Music and Light on Dec. 3, and the annual Improvisations Gala on Dec. 4. Prospect New Orleans Executive Director Nick Stillman joins us to talk about Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, an ongoing New Orleans citywide art...

Patrick Madden hosted this episode of Louisiana Considered. Investigative reporter Rich Webster discusses the latest findings from his investigation into the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. He recently uncovered efforts to conceal racial profiling of Hispanic motorists by deputies. Karl Lengel speaks with Ingrid Anderson about the Second Annual Human Horse Races, taking place Thanksgiving Day a...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Music Inside Out host Gwen Thompkins debuts her new show, “Back by Popular Demand - The Music Inside Out Sessions,” which features the stories of musicians whose lives and careers were upended by the COVID-19 pandemic and how they were able to get by. In this episode, vocalist Erica Falls (Galactic, Allen Toussaint) tells us how...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Author, journalist and Tulane University history professor Walter Isaacson discusses his new book, “The Code Breaker.” It’s a biography of Dr. Jennifer Doudna , winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on the CRISPR gene editing system. The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Food Writer Ian McNulty chronic...

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Clarus Research Group President Dr. Ron Faucheux breaks down the voter turnout numbers from New Orleans’ mayoral race last weekend. Congressman Troy Carter of New Orleans discusses the Build Back Better bill, which passed in the House of Representatives this morning, and the selection of former New Orleans may...

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Tulane University Assistant Dean of Clinical Research Dr. Vivian Fonceca argues the need for research on “long COVID,” a nickname for symptoms suffered by some COVID-19 patients for varying periods after they are no longer infected. Little is known about what causes the symptoms, which most commonly include headaches, fatigue, brain...

Patrick Madden hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Kaiser Family Foundation Associate Director for Public Opinion Ashley Kirzinger , Dartmouth College John Philips Professor in Religion Randall Balmer and Southwestern Seminary Land Center Director and pastor Daniel Darling join us for a roundtable discussion about what can be done to combat COVID-19 vaccine misinformation targ...

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Cellist Dr. Jee Yeoun Ko discusses her upcoming annual Coats for Kids Concert , taking place this Thursday, Nov. 18, which will bring classical and jazz musicians together in concert and collect winter coats for children at several New Orleans schools. The event will be held in tribute to its former co-host, Ellis Marsalis. Ballet M...

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace co-hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu has been selected to spearhead the distribution of funds from the federal infrastructure bill, which is expected to be signed by President Biden later today. WRKF’s Karen Henderson and Paul Braun and WWNO City Hall reporter Ryan Nelsen discuss the results of this week...

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace co-hosted this Friday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.  In an interview originally aired earlier this week on “Here and Now,” NPR’s Robin Young interviewed Louisiana Transportation and Development Secretary Dr. Shawn Wilson about how the state plans to use more than $7 billion from the federal infrastructure bill passed last week in Congress. WWNO/WRKF Capitol...

We speak with two environmental resource experts about an effort to produce green energy in Louisiana. Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’ Patrick Courreges explains the process of “carbon sequestration,” or removing carbon during chemical processing and pumping it underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. I...