Last year, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration proposed a “city-directed internet service” to compete with existing providers like Cox and AT&T. But now, the New Orleans City Council has initiated a full-fledged investigation into the project after learning that the city official in charge of it maintains two side businesses within the same smart cities industry.
Cultural economy and local government reporter for The Lens, Michael Isaac Stein, tells us more about this controversial project and where it may or may not be headed.
Last month, KVPI, a commercial radio station in Ville Platte, Louisiana, was awarded the “Uniquely Louisiana” award from the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters. The award was due in large part to their Cajun French programming, as the station has a long history of providing bilingual newscasts, music and talk shows.
Louisiana Considered managing producer Alana Schreiber spoke to KVPI’s general manager Mark Layne to learn more about promoting Cajun French through the airwaves.
Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubrey Procell, and Thomas Walsh.
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