8/25 Tuesday: Football Programs, Louisiana Immigration Task Force, Remembering Hurricane Katrina, and New Orleans

HOUR ONE: 

Gilbert Gaul

Gilbert Gaul is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author.  He shares his book Billion Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big Money Culture of College Football.  

Valarie Hodges

Valarie Hodges is the Representative of District 64.  She is a Republican.  Hodges gives news on the Louisiana immigration task force.  

HOUR TWO:

Gary Rivlin 

Gary Rivlin is a celebrated journalist.  He shares his book Katrina: After the Flood.  

Andrea Gabor

Andrea Gabor is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch’s Weissman School of Arts and Sciences.  She comments on her article The Myth of the New Orleans Makeover.

8/24 Monday: Industrial Dow Jones, Bobby Jindal, Fall Elections, America's Police, and Donald Trump

HOUR ONE: 

Fred Dent III

Fred Dent III is celebrating his 28th year in the financial planning and investment business. He started Dent Asset Management in 1997.  He comments on the precipitous drop in the Industrial Dow Jones.  

Colonel Rob Maness

Col. Rob Maness is running for U.S. Senate.  He speaks on the Gubernatorial election that is quickly approaching. 

HOUR TWO: 

Joe Domanick

Joe Domanick is an award-winning investigative journalist and author.  Currently, Domanick is Associate Director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ) at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, West Coast editor of The CrimeReport.org and editor and host of CMCJ's Juvenile Justice New Network forum.  He shares his book Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing.  

Quin Hillyer

Quin Hillyer is a Contributing Editor of National Review magazine, a Senior Editor for The American Spectator magazine, and a nationally recognized authority on the American political process.  He shares a recent article about Donald Trump.  

8/21 Friday: Governor Bobby Jindal, Shakespeare in the Swamp, David Vitter Calls for a Teacher Pay Hike, and the Ashley Madison Scandal

HOUR ONE: 

Mark Ballard

Mark Ballard is the Capitol Bureau Chief of the Advocate.  He discusses Governor Jindal and comments on the fall Gubernatorial election.

John Schneider

John Schneider is the founder of John Schneider Studios.  He is also an accomplished actor and musician.  Schneider promotes an upcoming event to take place August 27-29 called Shakespeare in the Swamp. 

HOUR TWO: 

Steve Monaghan

Steve Monaghan was first elected president of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers in 2003. In November of 2014, he was elected to his fifth term in office.  He comments on David Vitter's call for a teacher pay hike. 

Mike Wolf

Mike Wolf is a Baton Rouge Attorney.  He sheds some light on the repercussions of the Ashley Madison hack.  

8/20 Thursday: Mississippi River Delta Restoration Program, More on Elbert Guillory and the N word, President of FAIR, Gubernatorial Q&A, and Remembering Hurricane Katrina

HOUR ONE: 

Steve Cochran

Steve Cochran is the Director of the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Program.  Cochran discusses his recent article in The Advocate: Saving Louisiana’s coast is even more urgent after the hurricanes of the past.  Cochran warns that by 2100, Louisiana wetlands will be gone if they keep eroding at their current rate.  

Elbert Guillory

Senator Elbert Guillory returns again today to further discuss his controversial TV spot as he continues on his quest for the Lieutenant Governor's position. 

GUBERNatorial Q&A

According to the latests labor statistics, Louisiana's unemployment rate of 6.4% is tied for the nation's sixth-highest jobless rate.  As governor, what specific programs would you propose to get more people working? The candidates answer in the following order: John Bel Edwards, Jay Dardenne, and Scott Angelle.  David Vitter was also invited to respond, but did not.

HOUR TWO: 

Dan Stein

Dan Stein is the President of FAIR: Federation of American Immigration Reform.   

Tika Laudun

Tika Laudun is a senior staff member at Louisiana Public Broadcasting and is responsible for the development of LPB's documentary and educational productions.  She remembers the impact of Hurricane Katrina as the storm's 10th anniversary approaches next week.  



8/19 Wednesday: The Diversity Explosion, Alcohol Dir. of Louisiana, Senator Elbert Guillory and the N word

HOUR ONE: 

William Frey

Bill Frey is an internationally recognized demographer specializes in issues involving urban populations, migration, immigration, race, aging, political demographics, and the U.S. Census. He is also a research professor in population studies at the University of Michigan.  He shares his latest book Diversity Explosion. 

Troy Hebert

Former Senator Troy Hebert was appointed by Governor Bobby Jindal to serve as Commissioner of the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control in November of 2010.  Hebert's vehicle was stolen from his home Sunday night and returned Tuesday by the fire department after an attempt was made to set the car on fire.  

HOUR TWO:

Elbert Guillory 

Senator Elbert Guillory is running for Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.  He used the N word in a TV spot.  Though controversial, Guillory defends his TV spot asserting that the word is a part of history of which people need to be reminded. 

8/18 Tuesday: LSU and the International Space Station, the Civil War, Chef John Folse, and Candidate for Governor NOLA Attorney Cary Deaton

HOUR ONE: 

Gregory Guzik

Gregory Guzik is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at LSU.  He shares the involvement of the university with the international space station. 

David Madden

David Madden is a Civil War historian and author.  He shares his latest book, The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction. 

HOUR TWO: 

John Folse

John Folse is a Louisiana Chef and founder of Lafitte’s Landing Restaurant.  Folse shares news of his upcoming book Can You Bake It: The Dirt On Vegetables.   

Cary Deaton 

Cary Deaton is a New Orleans Attorney.  He just announced his candidacy for the upcoming Gubernatorial race.  Deaton was a Democratic candidate in the 2011 Governor's election.  Deaton says that John Bel Edwards was meant to be a "spoiler" for his election.