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Behind The Lens episode 139: ‘We don’t have much good news today’

A spike of COVID cases in prisons. City schools report 116 cases, hundreds of quarantines. And a potential ban on some political contributions for City Council candidates.
by Carolyne Heldman

This week on Behind the Lens, the New Orleans Ethics Review Board makes a recommendation to the City Council to ban political contributions from Entergy and other city-regulated utilities to council members and candidates.

In criminal justice news, COVID cases are rising fast in Louisiana prisons, according to data released by the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections.

And the NOLA Public Schools district is once again providing weekly updates on cases and quarantines among students and staff. 

Our guests this week are government and cultural economy reporter Michael Isaac Stein, criminal justice reporter Nick Chrastil, education reporter Marta Jewson, and Lens editor Charles Maldonado.

Behind The Lens is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and Stitcher. And we broadcast the show on community radio stations 102.3 FM WHIV LP in Mid-City and 90.3 FM WAMF-LP in the Marigny.

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Carolyne Heldman

Carolyne Heldman Rovira has been in media for 35 years, and is currently the podcast host and producer for Behind The Lens. Heldman served as executive director at Aspen Public Radio, an NPR affiliate, where she launched four weekly news, public affairs, and cultural affairs programs. She has been a guest lecturer at Tulane University, is a frequent guest and moderator for the Aspen Institute, Rocky Mountain Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute.

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