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Your weekly serving of stories from Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana — cooked up by the Gulf States Newsroom.
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NPR's Stephan Bisaha on housing affordability, swimming pool rentals & more (opens the original)
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Gulf States Newsroom's former economic mobility reporter Stephan Bisaha has written about data centers, Dollar Generals and housing affordability. Now, at NPR, he covers personal finance, capturing stories of economic impacts on southern communities. In this week's episode of the Gulf States Gumbo, Stephan joins government and democracy reporter Maya Miller to talk more about his work. This episode is hosted by Maya Miller. The podcast is produced by Aubri Juhasz, Elise Catrion Gregg, Drew Hawki
Gulf States Gumbo Live: Katrina: The Next 20 Years (opens the original)
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Last year, the Gulf States Newsroom examined the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina in a live event at the Prytania Theater. This year, we returned to the Prytania on August 20th, where our development director Marci Schramm convened a panel of scientists, activists and community leaders working to organize and protect New Orleans ahead of future natural disasters. We started with a short documentary screening from the Katrina Archive, followed by a presentation by documentary filmmaker Dr. Wesley
The first rule of NDAs: You can’t talk about the NDAs (opens the original)
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Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are becoming a common tool for concealing negotiations over large industrial developments in Louisiana. Gulf States Newsroom’s senior reporter Drew Hawkins joins us to round up months of reporting on NDAs across Louisiana government — from the 50-plus elected officials and 121 state employees who've signed NDAs with Gov. Jeff Landry's administration, to Landry's own agreement with Meta, to Rep. Julia Letlow's matching NDA and the stock trades she failed to disclo
Summer reading and a Gulf South back-to-school round-up (opens the original)
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School is back in session in the Gulf South. So this week, the Gulf States Gumbo is, too. First, we start in Algiers Point, on the Westbank of New Orleans. Research shows many students don’t read enough and are behind when they return to school. One way to fight this? Book clubs. We visit a middle school book club meeting at the Cita Dennis Hubbell Library to learn more. Also, Youth and Families reporter Aubri Juhasz sits down with Trisha Powell Crain, with the Alabama Daily News and Alabama Pub
Mississippi communities are gathering to talk voting rights amid redistricting efforts (opens the original)
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After the Louisiana v. Callais decision, which says states cannot draw congressional district lines based on race, lawmakers are clamoring to redistrict parts of the region. In this week's episode, we get two dispatches from democracy and government reporter Maya Miller, who visited Southaven, Mississippi, where voting rights organizations have joined forces for the People’s Hearing. The events are a slate of community meetings where residents offer oral and written testimonies on redistricting
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