Louisiana Considered Podcast
By WWNO/WRKF Newsroom
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“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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How Baton Rouge and New Orleans could make roads safer for cyclists
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May 15, 2024 |
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La. bill would classify abortion pills as controlled substances; Bayou Boogaloo kicks off in Mid-City
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May 14, 2024 |
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Landry signs bills to deregulate insurance market; carbon dioxide leak rocks La. town
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May 13, 2024 |
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How LNG expansion impacts communities from the Gulf South to Japan
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May 10, 2024 |
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La. congressional map battle heads to Supreme Court; NOLA pianist pushed boundaries
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May 09, 2024 |
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Nonprofit sues La. on behalf of foster youth; Jewish leaders push back against death penalty method
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May 08, 2024 |
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Why this year’s hurricane season could be 'extremely active’; Dracula debuts at the NOLA ballet
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May 08, 2024 |
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Louisiana congressional map struck down yet again; How to go birding on the Mississippi Flyway
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May 06, 2024 |
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Pro-Palestinian protests disrupt La. colleges; Xavier plans historically Black medical school
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May 02, 2024 |
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St. George gets court’s OK to build new city; NOLA garden fights mystery sewage bill
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May 01, 2024 |
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Jazz Fest poster artist honors The Dixie Cups; community park opens under NOLA expressway
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Experts share solutions to reduce maternal, infant mortality; Jewish group holds anti-war Passover Seder
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Speaker Mike Johnson backs Ukraine aid; La. teachers consider quitting over low pay
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Air quality declines in Baton Rouge, improves in NOLA; Rice’s Whale advocates seek protections
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Slidell clears debris from tornado damage; Jazz Fest cooks serve up crawfish dishes
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Families scramble to fill summer food assistance gap; NOLA artist documents changing coastline
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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How Germany pumps billions into Louisiana’s LNG plant expansion
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Where the effort to rewrite Louisiana’s constitution stands; Intimate partner violence costs millions annually
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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5th Circuit sees uptick in voting rights cases; LSU gets $160 million grant to study clean energy
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Sanctuary city ban bill moves through legislature; tribute honors Alvin Batiste, Edward ‘Kidd’ Jordan
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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1 in 5 Baton Rouge students is chronically absent; exhibit pairs quilting and planets
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Why La. is exporting record amounts of LNG to Europe; crawfish prices remain historically high
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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How southern schools fared in NCAA March Madness; Subsistence agriculture thrives along the Gulf Coast
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Lawmakers debate rollback of ‘3-year’ insurance rule; Bill would block some La. power line construction
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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French Quarter Festival kicks off 41st season; Solar eclipse dazzles viewers across the country
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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LSU researchers record solar eclipse from Texas; Puppet show highlights climate change impacts
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Shrimpers lose a way of life as LNG plants expand; Program trains formerly incarcerated people as lobbyists
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Landry wants scholarships stripped from athletes who miss national anthem; Research spotlights La. actors of color
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Carbon storage hampered by La. abandoned oil wells; NOLA workers push for bill of rights
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Louisiana prisoners lose medical release options; Poetry festival celebrates wordsmiths of color
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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FEMA streamlines disaster assistance program; La. expands access to pregnancy doulas
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Inside Louisiana’s massive LNG plant expansion; Republicans defeat abortion rights amendment
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Baltimore crash raises Mississippi River safety questions; How home buying could change after NAR settlement
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Experts share solutions to La.’s home insurance crisis; Actress on playing Carole King in NOLA production
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Trump, Biden win Louisiana primaries; NOLA’s Grow Dat Youth Farm faces possible closure
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Glass bottles restore vanishing coastline in St. Bernard Parish; Baton Rouge downtown sees economic growth
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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How paying college athletes has changed Louisiana sports; soprano makes New Orleans Opera debut
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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La. 2nd majority-Black congressional district faces lawsuit; ULM team discovers ancient mounds
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Exit exams remain a hurdle for many La. students; LGBTQ+ candidates face uphill battles
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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La. lawmakers start regular session in Baton Rouge; NOLA food pantry navigates loss of federal assistance
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Louisiana gives massive tax breaks to chemical manufacturers. What are the economic impacts?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Why Faubourg Brewing closed its NOLA plant; How gospel music inspired a famous jazz singer
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Landry declares crawfish season disaster; La. drops FAFSA requirement for high schoolers
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Mid-Barataria diversion stops construction; UNO archaeologists dig underneath St. Louis Cathedral
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Dollar store chains threaten La.’s small businesses; Super Bowl 2025 is hiring diverse NOLA suppliers
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Krewe of Freret bans plastic beads for Mardi Gras 2025; Immersive play opens in the Treme
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Flood insurance companies would face less regulation under state proposal; Exhibition explores La.’s female hunters
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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La.’s special session on crime wraps; NOLA will no longer have all charter schools
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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La. House approves permitless concealed carry; How Lent has evolved; Election officials prep for primaries
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Special session’s biggest crime policy proposals; Historic preservationists adopt AI tools
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Helping more La. community college students complete 4-year programs; Study predicts dire wetland loss
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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La.’s execution methods expansion bill; Check-in with Baton Rouge crisis center; Former poet laureate hosts Black history event
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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A look back at Louisiana’s news media history and the first female publisher of a major newspaper
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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La’s special session on crime begins, new app finds cheap groceries, NOLA’s new French Consul
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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History of La.’s prison system; Black Masonic Orders and Freemasonry; Cook-off for the coast
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Barriers to accessing mental health treatment before trial; Brazilian ballet at the Marigny; Indigenous farming practices
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Art exhibit explores Black hairstyles; archdiocese evades legal accountability for sexual abuse; DOJ investigates small-town police department
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Caitlin Clark closes in on all-time NCAA basketball scoring record; a look back on Rosenwald schools
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Why the Justice Dept. is investigating a Miss. town; La. property taxes; history of prohibition
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Encore: two stories on lost and found Mardi Gras footage
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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In honor of Lundi Gras, we look back at some of our favorite carnival stories
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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History of Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club; Lafayette man creates one of world’s hottest peppers
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Branford Marsalis to head music center; creative aging writers workshop, nursing home Mardi Gras
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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‘King Cake-opoly’; inside look at Rex and Comus; Carnival cleanup
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Gulf South skips Summer EBT; Mardi Gras horse adoptions; cervical cancer prevention
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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NOLA runner prepares for Olympic Marathon trials; conversation with Lafayette’s new mayor-president
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Gov. Landry’s 1st month; WWII Museum founder receives honor; Mardi Gras fiscal impacts
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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La. Freedom Caucus’ anti-LGBT messages; investigation into judicial funds; carpooling in Baton Rouge
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Pollution impacts in La.; Queer Eye returns to NOLA; one-man comedy comes to Le Petit Theatre
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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St. George updates; empowering students in the classroom; why LSU removed DEI language from websites
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Louisiana athletes prep for the Olympics – and some qualifying events head to Louisiana
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Impacts of Deepwater Horizon spill 13 years later; exploring political middle grounds
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The government’s role in school choice; why some consider La.’s tax system to be ‘regressive’
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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NOLA City Council takes on corruption; recycling efforts; latest from Musaica Chamber Ensemble
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Hear the story of the Deslondes Rebellion, the largest revolt of enslaved people in U.S. history
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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La. one step closer to second majority-Black district; Gov. Landry pushes for closed primaries
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Louisiana farmers will gather to discuss climate change; understanding this year’s crawfish shortage
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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New exhibit explores Louisiana’s connection to Haiti; NOLA mural collection unveils 10th painting
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Encore: How the Baton Rouge bus boycott inspired Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Landry’s first week as Gov.; history of the Saenger Theatre; donating blood in Louisiana
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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La. tribes struggle for recognition; fight to end racial quotas on state’s medical board
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Using wetlands to fight emissions; support for student parents; history of NOLA’s fraternal clubs
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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New Orleans early education initiatives; new Louisiana laws; photo exhibit on undocumented workers
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Exploring the human-animal relationship through music; remembering La.’s first Black Lt. Gov.
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Sea Change: A World of Hope
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Gov. Edwards prepares to leave office; infrastructure developments; NOMA poetry workshop
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Louisiana DCFS warns about card skimmers; mental health programs for service industry workers
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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How two former weightlifters are preserving the memory of friend killed at 1972 Olympics, David Berger
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Encore: Addressing Louisiana’s feral hog problem and getting to know McArthur ‘genius’ Courtney Bryan
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Encore: Field burning alternatives and Dialogue on Race
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Encore: Healing practices of south Louisiana and a conversation with NOLA night mayor Howie Kaplan
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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La.’s political shift; court case on state air permits; LSUHS opens medical education center
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Gulf South food banks; the year in politics; a French Quarter museum discusses urban enslavement
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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History of prohibition and bootlegging in La.; how one pianist connects cajun and classical music
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Bringing tablets into jail; “undie” rock show comes to NOLA; new research on school choice
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Meet the volunteers helping save Theatre Baton Rouge; efforts to get more girls to play trumpet
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Sea Change: The American Whale
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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New NOPD chief’s approach to crime; holiday cooking tips; 18th annual ‘Christmas Without Tears’
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Loyola to screen once-lost Mardi Gras Indian film; Opera Louisiane’s holiday show; heat islands
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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UMC nurses vote to unionize; NOPD’s plan to deploy drones; Upcoming Ogden After Hours performance
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Dec 12, 2023 |