Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

Louisiana leaders broke ground on the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project on Aug. 10, 2023, but construction on the project has been delayed. Two separate lawsuits are challenging the impacts it could have on the state’s coastline. Louisiana is in danger of losing the more than $2 billion allocated for the project if it doesn’t commit to seeing it through.

Louisiana could be out billions of dollars if controversial coastal restoration stalls

The feds threaten to withhold $2.2 billion from the massive effort to save and restore the state’s diminishing coastline if leaders don’t act soon.

"East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood," performed at Shreveport Little Theatre and directed by Talbot Pearson, 1933.

Shreveport Little Theatre’s history chronicled in new LPB documentary

Adam Vos

On today’s show, we hear the latest on the controversial Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. Also, we learn the storied history of Shreveport Little Theatre, and look back at a conversation about Colony, Alabama.

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