Kicking the Can: SNAP during the shutdown and charter schools await their fate
The shutdown is over, how did the state do in protecting its most vulnerable. And charters await their fate with state evaluations.
Author: Carolyne Heldman
- About 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.
“A Fundamental Reset”
Fossil fuel companies rebrand as "energy" producers. Also construction of a new LNG terminal is halted by a federal judge.
Boxing Up Choice: Louisiana AG sues the FDA to halt the shipment of abortion meds. And the Leah Chase School Principal Resigns.
Greg LaRose on Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's lawsuit against the FDA challenging the distribution of abortion drugs by mail. Marta Jewson on the resignation of Leah Chase School's principal, just two months into the school year.
Protected Speech or Anti-Semitism? A university syllabus draws scrutiny.
Delaney Nolan on a Tulane program manager who was fired. Bernard Smith on "outrageous" phone call rates in jails after new FCC Chairman delays mandated reductions. Marta Jewson on the 2019 Kennedy grads, who've won another court battle, but the war continues.
Energy Monsters: AI data centers prompt concern about a ‘Digital Cancer Alley.’ Also, the first U.S. climate refugees have regrets
Gus Bennett on Big Tech data centers that threaten more environmental and economic harm in Cancer Alley. Terry Jones on climate refugees 10 years after relocation.
Odorless, invisible and deadly: Exxon plans to lay carbon pipeline alarmingly close to La. residents
Delaney Nolan and Emily Sanders on an Exxon pipeline set to carry highly compressed carbon dioxide in St. James Parish. And Elise Plunk on a Tulane study that found lizards in New Orleans are living with levels of lead in their blood that should be lethal.
Ep. 283: After the Smitty’s Supply explosion, concerns for Lake Pontchartrain
Reporter Delaney Nolan on environmental pollution concerns in the wake of the explosion at Smitty's Supply.
Episode 282: Orleans Parish Prison after the storm ‘We’re still in here’
Bernard Smith and Katy Reckdahl on the men trapped in the Orleans Parish Prison and Broad Street Bridge in the wake of the levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina that flooded New Orleans.
Behind The Lens episode 281 part II: ‘Completely inadequate’
Longtime environmental reporter Mark Schleifstein on the federal flood after the U.S. Army Corps’ levees failed and flooded 80 percent of the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Delaney Nolan on ongoing corrosion that could undermine the system again.
Behind The Lens episode 281 part I: ‘Completely inadequate’
Longtime Times-Picayune environmental reporter Mark Schleifstein on the federal flood after the U.S. Army Corps' levees failed and flooded 80 percent of the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
