Louisiana Considered

At least 1,500 incarcerated people in Louisiana were convicted by non-unanimous juries. Karl Lengel hosted this episode of Louisiana Considered. Al Jazeera News Senior Producer Jeremy Young discusses “The Jim Crow Convictions,” a documentary by Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines and The Lens about criminal convictions in Louisiana made under a Jim Crow-era law, taken off the books in 2018, that allowed juri...

The Music Box Village and Musaica Chamber Ensemble return to live performance in New Orleans. Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick reports on the close-quarters, unhygienic conditions that incarcerated residents faced during the botched evacuations of Louisiana jails and correctional facilities during Hurricane Ida. Project Airlif...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. In an excerpt from this weekend’s All Things Considered, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg and host Michel Martin discuss what’s at stake this Supreme Court session, especially regarding women’s reproductive rights. In a discussion from Louisiana Considered aired September 21, WWNO/WRKF Public Health Reporter Rosemar...

Patrick Madden hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. In a story originally aired October 2018 as part of the series “TriPod: New Orleans at 300,” former WWNO/WRKF reporter Laine Kaplan-Levenson tells the story of New Orleans’ Desire community , a housing project originally marketed toward Black veterans of World War II and later toward low-income residents. Houses in Desire were...

Patrick Madden hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF reporter Rich Webster discusses public response to findings from a joint investigation by WWNO/WRKF and ProPublica into the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. The investigation found that the office runs with little oversight or accountability for deputies’ behavior in the field, and that there are stark racial dispa...

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Crescent City Chamber Music Festival founder Luke Fleming joins us to discuss CCCMF’s upcoming sixth season, “(Over)Come Together.” Performances will run at several different venues from September 30 to October 10. In an interview aired this June, New Orleans Opera General and Artistic Director Clare Burovac discusses the New Orlean...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Gulf Seafood Foundation Board Member Jim Gossen and former chairman of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board Harlon Pearce explain how Hurricane Ida disrupted Louisiana’s seafood industry and how the industry recovered from Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago. Food writer Ian McNulty reports on the heroic efforts underta...

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace hosted this episode of Louisiana Considered on Friday, September 24, 2021. Hosts Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace discuss New Orleans’ ongoing “trash crisis” and the federal government’s failure to provide assistance to Louisiana state and local governments after hurricanes Ida, Laura and Delta. State Representative Tanner Magee of Houma discusses what his cons...

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Lead Coastal Reporter Tegan Wendland presents findings from a joint investigation by NPR and ProPublica into Entergy’s failure to prepare South Louisiana’s power grid for a storm as intense as Hurricane Ida, despite decades of insistence to improve the grid by the City of New Orleans. State Representative Stephanie Hilferty...

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Greater New Orleans Foundation President and CEO Andy Kopplin discusses how the Foundation has fared during the COVID-19 pandemic and what actions the Foundation is considering to assist with recovery from Hurricane Ida in the 13 parishes it serves. WWNO/WRKF reporter Ryan Nelsen reports from a heated New Orleans City Council mee...

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Public Health Reporter Rosemary Westwood reports on an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court hearing in December which could overturn or negate the abortion rights ruling of Roe v. Wade . The case will decide if Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , a 2018 Mississippi case which effectively bans abortions after 15 weeks of...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hurricane Recovery Mission deputy commander Lt. Col. Robert Warren Green explains how the Army Corps of Engineers’ Blue Roof program works and why the wait for free tarp installation on roofs damaged by Hurricane Ida is so long. Operation Blue Roof will stop accepting applications for free blue roof i...

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO City Hall Reporter Ryan Nelsen reports on the growing amount of garbage stacking up on New Orleans’ streets in the wake of Hurricane Ida, which interrupted standard garbage collection in the city. In an interview aired yesterday during WBUR’s Here and Now , host Tonya Mosley asks Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Poli...

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Meteorologist Dan Holiday joins us to talk about Tropical Storm Nicholas and the increasingly frequent occurrence of tropical storms along the Gulf Coast. WWNO/WRKF Capitol Access Reporter Paul Braun reports on Governor Edwards’ recent press conferences on COVID-19, Tropical Storm Nicholas and the state’s ongoing recovery from Hu...

Patrick Madden hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Environment Reporter Mark Schleifstein explains how Hurricane Ida caused environmental damage in Louisiana. More than 2,300 possible chemical leaks and spills were reported to authorities after the storm. WWNO/WRKF Public Health Reporter Rosemary Westwood reports on public calls for...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Lead Coastal Reporter Tegan Wendland aided an NPR investigation into the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s sales of homes in flood-prone areas to unsuspecting citizens seeking affordable housing. The investigation found that HUD disproportionately sold more houses built in official flood zones...

Karl Lengel hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Dillard University Professor of Urban Studies and Public Policy Dr. Robert Collins explains how his team researches disasters like Hurricane Ida using social science research techniques. WWNO/WRKF Education Reporter Aubri Juhasz reports on the timeline for Louisiana K-12 schools to fully reopen in the wake of Hurricane Ida. See om...

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Lead Coastal Reporter Tegan Wendland tells us about the Louisiana Climate Task Force’s draft plan , which is the latest step in establishing a firm emissions reduction goal for the state. Blue Krewe CEO Geoff Coats tells us about the nonprofit, community-based organizations upcoming relaunch of New Orleans’ bikeshare pr...

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Education Reporter Aubri Juhasz updates us on the impact of COVID-19 in New Orleans schools, which reported 364 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday. As a result, more than 4,600 students and teachers are under quarantine. The Historic New Orleans Collection art curator Judith Bonner joins us to talk about the Collection’s curr...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF Capitol Access reporter Paul Braun talks about the development of plans for COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Louisiana universities and state government workplaces after the FDA granted the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine full approval this morning. NPR Weekend Edition host Scott Simon interviewed Our Lady of the Angels Hospital Nu...

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. LSU Law Center: Climate Change and Policy Project Director Ed Richards discusses causes of the August 2016 floods that devastated southeast Louisiana and explains how we can compare the magnitude of those floods to other historical floods. Tulane University planetary science researcher Dr. Jennifer Whitten explains her research showi...

Karl Lengel hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Data Center of Southeast Louisiana Chief Demographer Dr. Allison Plyer joins us to discuss the Center’s work using data analysis to improve lives in Southeast Louisiana and to fight misinformation on social media. WWNO/WRKF public health reporter Rosemary Westwood speaks with Ochsner Health pediatrician Dr. William Lennarz about...

Karl Lengel hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WWNO/WRKF education reporter Aubri Juhasz reports the latest news on the spread of COVID-19 in classrooms . Some parents in New Orleans are frustrated by the lack of a virtual education option from most schools in the city. WWNO/WRKF lead coastal reporter Tegan Wendland fills us in on today’s press conference hosted by City of New...

Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. Gulf States Newsroom health care reporter Shalina Chatlani reports on the drastic decline in testing for HIV in some southern states during the pandemic, which experts say could lead to an increase in cases of HIV/AIDS in the next few years. In Louisiana, HIV testing has declined 33% since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered. WRKF Morning Edition host Karen Henderson spoke with Baton Rouge city council member Rowdy Gaudet about a city ordinance he sponsored which increases penalties for drag racing in Baton Rouge. The ordinance, passed last night, will levy a $500 fine for first-time drag racing offenders and a $1,000 fine for subsequent offences. Lieuten...