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Louisiana Considered: Proposal To Move New Orleans’ City Hall, The Big Door Prize

Protests over a plan to relocate City Hall in New Orleans on Thursday, June 17, 2021.
Ryan Nelsen
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WWNO
Protests over a plan to relocate City Hall in New Orleans on Thursday, June 17, 2021.
  • WWNO City Hall Reporter Ryan Nelsen joins us to discuss New Orleans mayor Latoya Cantrell’s proposal to move New Orleans City Hall to the city’s Municipal Auditorium, which hundreds of community members protested last week.
  • Louisiana author and director of the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans M.O. Walsh’s novel “The Big Door Prize'' is being produced as a television series on Apple TV+. Walsh was born and raised in Baton Rouge and his fiction and essays have appeared in notable publications like the Guardian, the New York Times, the Southern Review and others.
Patrick was the Regional News Director for the news collaboration between WRKF Baton Rouge and WWNO New Orleans, from 2019 through 2023.