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Join Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr on American Ground Radio - Louisiana Edition as they delve deep into the heartbeat of Louisiana, serving up a gumbo of local and statewide news, and political opinion to boot.


Whether you're in NOLA or Natchitoches, Minden or Moss Bluff, grab a seat and savor not just the spicy Louisiana politics, but also the company of friends and family that make this place we call home.





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  • A Plan to Make a Plan: The Sheriff’s Mayoral Endorsement Falls Apart

    A Plan to Make a Plan: The Sheriff’s Mayoral Endorsement Falls Apart
    Oct 22 2026
    You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 21, 2026.

    We start close to home with the Shreveport mayoral race, the largest municipal election on the Louisiana ballot this November. Caddo Parish Sheriff Henry Whitehorn Sr. has endorsed Stormy Gage Watts, citing her commitment to public safety. We take a hard look at the endorsement, at the difference between making something a priority and having a plan, and at what crime numbers in Shreveport have done in the last four years. We also ask why candidates are so good at naming problems and so much less comfortable explaining how they’ll fix them.

    In the Top 3 Things You Need to Know, a Michigan man has been arrested for allegedly flying surveillance-style drones over Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City. A former New Orleans Safety and Permits employee is accused of a short-term rental permit fraud scheme that included permits in the French Quarter. And Shreveport has reached a deal with the New York owner of the Sanctuary apartment complex, who was $145,000 behind on his water bill. We also give credit where we think it’s due.

    We then dig into the Louisiana Board of Regents’ new Louisiana Opportunity Index. It asks whether our colleges are preparing students for jobs that actually exist, whether graduates get a good return on their investment and stay in Louisiana, and whether they get real-world experience and good career advice before taking on expensive degrees. In Digging Deep, we go through the campaign finance reports in Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, on both the Democratic and Republican sides. We look at who has raised money, who has loaned their own campaign money, and who has cash left, and we talk about the effect of a Trump endorsement and why none of it matters unless people show up to vote.

    From there we head to Minnesota, where Michelle Tafoya is running for U.S. Senate against Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan after the Cook Political Report shifted the race to Leans Democrat. We talk about why the race matters and about the fraud scandals that have hit the state. Then we ask whether the war in Ukraine could be nearing a turning point after Zelensky’s comments on Fox News about freezing the lines where they are, and after the Kremlin said Putin has agreed to resume U.S.-mediated talks.

    In our Moment of Whoa, a Richmond, Virginia, man is charged after allegedly duct-taping his wife to a chair so he could watch football in peace. We also play a round of the deadliest wars in European history, and we close with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s claim that the Second Amendment comes with an expiration date, plus why we think that argument doesn’t work for any other right in the Constitution.

    Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, visit AmericanGroundRadio.com, and join the conversation at 866-AGR-1776.
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    42 min
  • $3.2 Billion to Nonprofits: Where Did Louisiana’s Money Go?

    $3.2 Billion to Nonprofits: Where Did Louisiana’s Money Go?
    Oct 21 2026
    You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 20, 2026.

    We start by digging into a Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s report showing the state sent $3.2 billion to nonprofits over four years, with $1.9 billion of it coming from the Department of Education. We ask what taxpayers got for $10 million to the New Orleans Super Bowl host committee, $300,000 to the Country Music Association in Nashville, and nearly $11,000 to an LGBTQ aging advocacy group. We also separate charter school funding, where test scores give you something to measure, from spending where the return is much harder to see.

    In the Top 3 Things You Need to Know, Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill are headed to Paris for the Saints game on a chartered flight, while Mayor Helena Moreno says she is paying her own way. New Orleans has declared Election Day a city holiday, even though polls are open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. and early voting is already underway. The U.S. Department of Transportation is also putting $5.81 million toward replacing railroad bridges between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, which gets us debating whether a passenger train could ever pay for itself.

    It’s campaign season, so we talk about big-picture candidates versus little-picture candidates who’ve done their homework. Shreveport Mayor Tom Arsenault then joins us in the studio to answer a claim that he has a secret plan to double water rates. He walks us through the sewer consent decree, why any rate change needs city council approval, and how his Block by Block cleanup program is going as he asks for another four years.

    Next, migrant student enrollment in California public schools has dropped sharply, and Oakland’s newcomer programs have shrunk from 17 to six. We talk about what that says about how school districts budget. In Say What, Maine Democrat Troy Jackson tells Senator Susan Collins to shut up during their debate and says he doesn’t regret it, and we look at what Collins actually said. We also meet an Indiana county council candidate who reportedly had three beers before a candidate forum. Then, with Halloween around the corner, we count down the spookiest cities in America, and New Orleans takes the top spot. We close with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s swift response to youth riots in Milan, and why freedom requires order.

    Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, visit AmericanGroundRadio.com, and join the conversation at 866-AGR-1776.
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    42 min
  • New Orleans Proposes 75% Sanitation Cuts, Louisiana Early Voting Begins, Shreveport Mayor Race Finances Revealed

    New Orleans Proposes 75% Sanitation Cuts, Louisiana Early Voting Begins, Shreveport Mayor Race Finances Revealed
    Oct 20 2026
    You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 19, 2026.

    We open the show with a message for New Orleans: get it together. Mayor Helena Moreno’s proposed budget would eliminate 75% of the sanitation department’s positions. We ask how making a top tourist destination dirtier and less safe helps a city out of a financial crisis. We also talk about why one-time money doesn’t solve recurring problems, and about sticking to the things only a city can do.

    In the Top 3 Things You Need to Know, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlman announces his retirement after 43 years with the department. An arrest warrant is issued for the owner of a Shreveport apartment complex whose water was cut off over more than $145,000 in unpaid bills, though extradition from New York is uncertain. And early voting begins across Louisiana, running through October 27 ahead of Election Day on November 3.

    Next, we turn to the candidate forums we’ve been watching in Shreveport, New Orleans, and Lafayette. We explain why loving your community isn’t a governing strategy, and we make the case for big-picture candidates who also know the budget.

    In Digging Deep, we go through the Shreveport mayor’s race campaign finance reports. We compare Mayor Tom Arsenault’s cash on hand with the totals raised by John Paul Young, Stormy Gage Watts, and Tammy Phelps. We also explain why most of Young’s headline total is his own money, and why dollars raised don’t equal votes.

    After that, we get to a rare moment of accountability. Duke cornerback Kamari Robinson publicly apologizes after swatting away a team trainer’s hand during a game, and we think it’s one of the better apologies we’ve heard.

    In Say What, we play a clip of Sen. Elissa Slotkin explaining the deterrence message she wants to send to people considering work in the Trump administration. We react to it, along with Sen. Raphael Warnock’s comments on Meet the Press about the president and the people who enabled him, and we discuss what a Democratic return to power could mean.

    Then we cover Elon Musk’s reported plan to give American children a share of SpaceX stock, alongside the Dell family’s Trump account pledge. We talk about what it means for kids to own a piece of the American economy. We close with a game on September state unemployment rates, where the states with the highest unemployment skew blue and the states with the lowest skew red, and we ask what that means for the affordability argument heading into the midterms.

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