Episode Details

On today's show, Newell shares his thoughts on a deferred $850-per-float "Carnival Gap Adjustment" fee currently being considered by the New Orleans City Council to help offset the city's $4 million Mardi Gras service deficit. Then, Newell has on Kedric Payne with the Campaign Legal Center to examine the legal and ethical questions concerning newly uncovered records about congressional stock trading after Representative Julia Letlow reportedly signed an NDA involving a Meta subsidiary and later made trades involving Meta and Nvidia, Lowrey Crews, the founder & CEO of The 18th Ward, to discuss the challenges and roadblocks the nonprofit organization is facing that are preventing deserving children from participating in their youth sports programs and sends a call to action for possible solutions, Pearson Cross, Director of the School of Behavior & Social Sciences at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, to discuss what these Democratic Socialists of America primary upsets mean for the national political landscape, Aaron Miller, Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss the implications of the Trump administration launching an “Economic D-Day” against Iran, and journalist/writer Marielle Songy, author of "Coffee Culture New Orleans", to talk about her new LSU Press book, "Coffee Culture New Orleans," that explores New Orleans’ love affair with coffee.