John DeSantis: When Race & Labor Strife Turned Deadly
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> John DeSantis is a reporter based in southeast Louisiana. He unc...
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Where the Alligators Roam
Where The Alligators Roam is back on the ether, if not the air. The show is now done from the downtown Lafayette studios of Acadiana Open Channel. It streams on Cypress Street Radio on Sunda...
Episodes
20 of 41 episodesRhonda Gleason: Schools as Killing Fields Reignite Moral Outrage
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America was formed in the af...
Dr. Brian Marks & The Geography of Fairness
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> At the start of 2018, we are nearly three years out from the for...
Mike Stagg: Looking Backward & Forward
This show materialized when I could not find a guest to interview during the final week of 2017. So, I wrote up some notes and reminders and...
John M. Barry: The Writer Who Changed Louisiana's Conversation About the Coast
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> John M. Barry‘s books have informed and moved people, but his gr...
Our Congressional Map Does Not Represent Us
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> An intra-party squabble involving Louisiana’s then-seven congres...
Lily Stagg's Life-changing Summer in the Cycle Saddle
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Lily Stagg spent the late spring and most of the summer of 2016...
Michelle Erenberg: Lifting Lousiana Women Above Laws Based on Lies
Michelle Erenberg is co-founder of Lift Louisiana — a non-profit based in New Orleans that advocates for the freedom of women to exercise th...
Scott Eustis: Witness to Louisiana's Wetlands Reckoning
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Scott Eustis has had a busy mid-2017.As the Gulf Restoration Net...
U.S. Wars Kill Us, Too!
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> The United States spends more on military arms, equipment and pe...
Dr. Willie Parker: The Parable of the Good Samaritan and Abortion
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Dr. Willie Parker was born into poverty and Christianity in Birm...
Mike Deshotels: Using the Courts to De-Spin John White
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> For six years, there has been an epic David v. Goliath battle be...
Jack McGuire: Earl K. Long's Unlikely Defender
Jack McGuire met then-Governor Earl K. Long during Long’s 1959 campaign for Lieutenant Governor (in those days, Louisiana governors were bar...
Aimee Boyd Robinson: Petitioning to End a Scofflaw's Rule
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Brian Pope was elected Lafayette City Marshal in December 2014,...
Rick Swanson: Truth Is Essential to Reconciliation
<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Dr. Rick Swanson is chair of the UL Lafayette Political Science...
Albert Slap: The Risk & Costs of Climate Change
"For the second successive August, Louisiana is getting hit hard by rain. Last year, it was three days of heavy rains that dumped 20-inches...
Nancy MacLean: How Democracy Was Chained
"Nancy MacLean's Democracy In Chains not only sheds light on the history of the ideas that have come to dominate the best funded wing of U.S...
People, the Coast and Climate
"Scientists at 13 federal agencies have released the final draft of their report on the impact of climate change on the United States. The r...
Kim Goodell: Water As Our Sacred Trust
"Americans are accustomed to things just working. Flip a switch and the lights come on. Open a tap and clean water flows from it. But, as in...
LeAnn Magee: Taking Abita Green with Dollars & Sense
"Abita Springs is nestled in the piney woods of St. Tammany Parish, just east of Covington and north of Mandeville. The town has a well-earn...