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LSU Professor Kevin Cope speaks on various topics including Mike Johnson and also the direction of the university. American Kidney Fund president and CEO LaVarne Burton is joined by Chair of AKF's national volunteer Board of Trustees Dr. Silas Norman to discuss the importance of kidney health. Author Caroline Paul talks her latest work, "Tough Broad".

Former State Rep. Troy Hebert is joined by Libertarian lawyer Mike Wolf to discuss various political topics including the ongoing Donald Trump trial and Jeff Landry's administration.

Veteran Louisiana politico Jim Brown talks latest news at the State Capitol including Jeff Landry and also upcoming elections.

The Rice’s Whale is now considered to be critically endangered, with a population in the Gulf of Mexico likely less than 100 individuals.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s support of additional aid for Ukraine has roiled the far-right flank of the U.S. House. Plus, La. teachers are feeling squeezed as wages stagnate.

Black infants in Louisiana are more than three times as likely to die from premature birth as white infants. Mothers also have higher death rates.

Columnist Quin Hillyer discusses his latest column regarding Garret Graves and also various political topics. Mayor-President of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rogue Parish Sharon Weston Broome speaks on the future of the new city, St. George. Louisiana Voice's Tom Aswell talks the prospect of a constitutional convention and also the war on public records.

Today on Louisiana Considered, Don Marshall, executive director of Jazz Fest, reflects on 20 years of bringing music to New Orleanians as he prepares to retire. Plus, we catch up on the week in politics.

Journalist, author and Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at the LSU Manship School John Maxwell Hamilton talks what's going on in the world of journalism and also his latest work, "The French 75". The Advocate's Mark Ballard discusses various local and national political topics.

This week on Louisiana Considered, we mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina with discussions about ecological restoration, climate change, and community health initiatives in the Ninth Ward