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$1.3 Billion for Fiber When Starlink Is Already There?

$1.3 Billion for Fiber When Starlink Is Already There?

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You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 8, 2026.

We start by asking what government should and shouldn’t build, then dig into Governor Jeff Landry’s broadband expansion in East Baton Rouge Parish. Louisiana is the first state to get its BEAD plan approved, and we debate whether $1.3 billion in federal money for fiber makes sense when Starlink is already available and the state has its own Starlink agreement.

In the Top 3, a Louisiana terror fraud network is dismantled, with five St. Tammany Parish men arrested by Attorney General Liz Murrill in a Medicaid fraud case, two of whom are accused of sending more than $100,000 to Hamas. Entergy Louisiana’s CEO tells regulators that Meta’s Richland Parish data center will need 4,500 megawatts, and we ask what protections ratepayers have. The Attorney General also finds that the Kenner City Council violated the state’s Open Meetings Act.

After the break, we remind everyone that Louisiana is more than data centers and rockets. We talk about agriculture, from the sugar cane harvest to the 11 mills in the state, and we urge everyone to drive carefully around harvest equipment after a fatal crash in St. Martinville. In Digging Deep, we look at how the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is preparing for SpaceX’s Starbase with new aerospace programs, and why that move is smart for students and the state.

We then turn to the scheduled December 3 firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says will be streamed to the public. We disagree about whether capital punishment deters terrorists. On a lighter note, Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas tells us what it meant to pass the U.S. citizenship test, and we talk about what makes America the land of opportunity. We also discuss New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s October 7 dinner at a restaurant with “from the river to the sea” on its menu, play a round of World Series trivia with the Yankees and Cardinals, and enjoy the irony of Obama Presidential Center employees chanting “yes, we can” to form a union.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, visit AmericanGroundRadio.com, and join the conversation at 866-AGR-1776.
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