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Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear why the state ranks among the highest for pedestrian fatalities – and what to do about it. We also learn about a new program to encourage more students to enter the nursing field, and hear another segment of “What Was Lost.”

Today on Louisiana Considered, we bring you two stories about people who turned their hardships into opportunities to help others, including a man who’s helped hundreds of incarcerated individuals and another who found his life’s work in helping people who are blind after he lost his sight. That, and the week in politics.

Veteran anchorman George Sells discusses news topics including the recent flooding in Texas and other past national disasters. Former LSU President F. King Alexander talks his enthusiastic career in higher education.

Attorney and politician Hunter Lundy remembers televangelist Jimmy Swaggart and also talks his faith and how it reflects in his political views. The Advocate's Mark Ballard comments on various local and national topics including the "big beautiful bill" and the upcoming US Senate race.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we’ll visit with a New Orleans glassblower who’s putting down his blow pipe after 40 years of creation. Norris Cook shares memories and lessons learned from his grandfather’s skiff boat that washed away during Hurricane Katrina. And we’ll get an update on the week in politics.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear how potential cuts to Medicaid could impact women of childbearing age in more rural areas of the state. We also learn why the state’s film industry is going south and hear about Preservation Hall’s new renovation plans.

Attorney and former communications director for the Democratic Party Susan Nelson is joined by Republican and former State Representative Troy Hebert comments on Pam Bondi, the Epstein files and Pres. Trump. Managing Director of Live After 5 Luke Lognion talks St. George's upcoming event, "Saint George Culture Scene". For more information, visit, https://www.instagram.com/stgeorgeculturescene/. Music and film critic John Wirt talks Paul McCartney's career and his upcoming performance at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. For tickets, visit https://www.jambase.com/show/paul-mccartney-smoothie-king-center-20251029?utm_source=google&utm_medium=gac&source=ea.

Co-chair of the Jones Walker Energy, Environment & Natural Resources Industry Team Marjorie McKeithen speaks on her father, Fox McKeithen, and her grandfather John McKeithen. Governor of Louisiana Jeff Landry talks the happenings of his term thus far, and his new podcast "Diner Days".

The Advocate/The Times-Picayune reporter Tyler Bridges talks the latest in local news including Julia Letlow. Longtime Louisiana politico James Carville comments on various political topics including public broadcasting funding and Pres. Trump and Epstein.

Congressman for Louisiana's 6th district Cleo Fields talks various political topics including the implications of Trump's "big beautiful bill". General Manager and President at WRKF Paul Maassen speaks on public broadcasting funding.