“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.
A Medicaid program may cut ties with Ochsner; how SpaceX development plans with impact Pecan Island
One of Louisiana’s four remaining Medicaid programs may end its coverage for the Ochsner network, potentially impacting 70,000 patients across the state. Ochsner describes itself as the largest Medicaid healthcare provider in Louisiana and has facilities in nearly every region in the state.
Louisiana Illuminator reporter Julie O’Donoghue (https://lailluminator.com/author/julie-odonoghue/) has been covering this story. She joins us with the latest.
SpaceX wants to build one of the biggest spaceports in the world on the Louisiana coast—a sprawling $100 billion complex near tiny Pecan Island, where marshes, birds, and generations of coastal communities are already living with a rapidly changing landscape. Louisiana sees the project as an economic opportunity—and a potential new source of money to help save its disappearing coast. But for people who live there, the arrival of rockets raises a different question: What happens when the future of space collides with a place that is already struggling to survive?
This episode is hosted by Executive Producer Carlyle Calhoun and Coastal Reporter Michael McEwan. Additional reporting and interview tape from Gulf States Newsroom reporter Drew Hawkins. Our theme music is by Jon Batiste, and our sound designer is Emily Jankowski.
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Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Alana Schreiber. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber. We get production and technical support from Garrett Pittman, Adam Vos and our assistant producer Aubry Procell.
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15 Oct 2026
A look at the state constitutional amendments; Louisiana Shrimp Fest; Spanish colonial history on display at Tulane
The midterm elections are quickly approaching, and Louisiana has 10 constitutional amendments on the ballot covering a number of issues.
Stephanie Grace (https://www.nola.com/opinions/stephanie_grace/), editorial director and columnist at the Times Picayune/The Advocate, joins us to break down the ballot, the public response and why Gov. Landry is not weighing in.
The Louisiana Shrimp Festival (https://louisianashrimpfestival.org/) returns this weekend at the Broadside. The event will feature food, live music and family-friendly activities to raise awareness for the urgent challenges facing Louisiana’s shrimping industry.
Shrimper Kindra Arneson (https://dontcageouroceans.org/kindra-arnesen-womens-southern-fisheries-alliance/), Dana Honn (https://danahonn.com/about), author, chef and co-founder of the festival, and Jeff Plumely (https://www.lsu.edu/agriculture/rnr/people/profiles/plumlee.php), assistant professor and fisheries specialist at Louisiana State University, join us with more on the event.
A new exhibition at Tulane’s Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center traces the struggle for Spanish American independence from the 1760s through the 1820s. The exhibition is called “Spain, Spanish America and the Atlantic World in an Age of Revolution,” (https://library.tulane.edu/news/Spain%2C%20Spanish_America_Age_of_Revolution) and it features rare books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers and early constitutions.
Hortensia Calvo (https://stonecenter.tulane.edu/hortensia-calvo), Tulane professor and the exhibition’s curator, joins us with more.
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Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Alana Schreiber. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber, and our assistant producer is Aubry Procell. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman. Our intern is Ryann Goldberg.
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14 Oct 2026
What Hurricane Isaias revealed about storm forecasting; overdetention in state prisons; NOLA BugFest returns
Hurricane Isaias is officially behind us, and our neighbors along the Gulf Coast are picking up the pieces from this storm. But what can this hurricane tell us about the current state of tropical weather forecasting?
Climatologist Jay Grymes (https://www.lsu.edu/state-climate-office/about_losc/people.php) joins us to discuss advancements in forecasting, what storm tracking reveals about potential damage and the state of weather communication and preparation.
Overdetention is becoming a serious problem in U.S. prisons, particularly in Louisiana. The U.S. Justice Department has found Louisiana’s prison system regularly holds people who have served their full sentence longer than it should, releasing them later than their scheduled release date. The state’s corrections department is subject to at least one lawsuit from people who were overdetained.
Data shows (https://app.lla.state.la.us/publicreports.nsf/0/8d1932ad74c9dfa186258d93005ff196/$file/00009a70.pdf) more than 1,200 people were held beyond their release dates. Prior years have shown up to 2,000 people per year held behind bars too long.
Andrea Hagan, (https://www.loyno.edu/academics/faculty-and-staff-directory/andrea-hagan) founder of Pattern Hunters LLC and an instructor in Criminology and Justice at Loyola University New Orleans, tells us more about this issue and what it reveals about the justice system.
NOLA BugFest (https://nola.gov/next/mosquito/topic/nola-bugfest/) returns this Saturday, bringing together entomologists, educators, conservation organizations and community partners for a full day of free programming. Visitors of all ages can enjoy hands-on exhibits, educational demonstrations, games and crafts.
Claudia Riegel, (http://linkedin.com/in/claudia-riegel-25725067) director of the New Orleans Mosquito, Termite & Rodent Control Board, tells us more about the event and the importance of entomology education.
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Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Adam Vos. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber. We get production support from Garrett Pittman and our assistant producer Aubry Procell. Our intern is Ryann Goldberg.
You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It’s available on Spotify, the NPR App and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you!
Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you’re at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you’d like to listen to.
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