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Gulf States Newsroom

Your weekly serving of stories from Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana — cooked up by the Gulf States Newsroom. We're a team of journalists working with NPR & local public radio stations (WBHM, WWNO, WRKF, Mississippi Public Broadcasting) to cover the issues that matter to you – all across the region.

2024 GSN

Your weekly serving of stories from Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana — cooked up by the Gulf States Newsroom. We're a team of journalists working with NPR & local public radio stations (WBHM, WWNO, WRKF, Mississippi Public Broadcasting) to cover the issues that matter to you – all across the region.

2024 GSN
21hr 16min
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June 5, 202618min 6sec95.83 MB
Thumbnail for "Sitting down with the Southern Music Research Center".
June 19, 202617min 9sec90.79 MB
Thumbnail for "The communities caught in the crossfire of redistricting".
June 12, 202615min 35sec82.51 MB
Thumbnail for "The state of FEMA with On the Media’s Micah Loewinger".
May 29, 202613min 59sec74.05 MB
Thumbnail for "Hip-hop and social-emotional learning at a New Orleans high school".
May 22, 202613min 59sec74.05 MB
Thumbnail for "How Jarvis DeBerry covers the Gulf South".
May 15, 202616min 51sec89.19 MB
Thumbnail for "Talking 'Night Owl' with Mississippi's Aimee Nezhukumatathil".
May 8, 202613min 59sec74.02 MB
Thumbnail for "How the war in Iran is impacting Mississippi Delta farmers".
May 1, 202613min 59sec74.01 MB
Thumbnail for "The long road back to voting restoration in the Gulf South".
April 24, 202613min 59sec74.08 MB
Thumbnail for "Following the opioid settlement money in Mississippi".
April 17, 202619min 45sec104.61 MB
Thumbnail for "Gulf South sports roundup: Teams on the move, NIL and college eligibility".
April 10, 202613min 59sec74.07 MB
Thumbnail for "Did your elected official sign an NDA? If you live in Louisiana, the answer is yes".
April 3, 202613min 59sec74.32 MB
Thumbnail for "Restoring voting rights in the Gulf South".
March 27, 202613min 59sec74.09 MB
Thumbnail for "Why Mississippi Delta farmers are struggling right now".
March 20, 202613min 59sec74.03 MB
Thumbnail for "How Louisiana’s LNG exports are driving out fishermen, driving up utility bills".
March 13, 202613min 59sec74.02 MB
Thumbnail for "How Mississippi is spending its opioid settlement funds".
March 6, 202613min 59sec74.03 MB
Thumbnail for "Officer Clemmons’ Neighborhood".
February 27, 202613min 59sec74.29 MB
Thumbnail for "How communities are building back in Mississippi after January’s winter storm".
February 20, 202613min 59sec74.28 MB
Thumbnail for "The plastic babies and plastic beads of New Orleans Mardi Gras".
February 13, 202613min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Winter storm slams the Gulf South".
February 6, 202613min 59sec74.35 MB
Thumbnail for "How New Orleans author, journalist Delaney Nolan finds hope in her new novel".
January 30, 202641min 51sec221.79 MB
Thumbnail for "The legal battle over Louisiana’s 10 Commandments law".
January 23, 202613min 59sec80.9 MB
Thumbnail for "A synagogue burns, and Mississippi reels".
January 16, 202613min 59sec74.19 MB
Thumbnail for "The national fight over health care hits Gulf South farmers".
January 9, 202613min 59sec74.27 MB
Thumbnail for "Moments that will stick with us from 2025".
December 26, 202514min 16sec75.77 MB
Thumbnail for "Coastal Mississippi's post-Katrina letters to Santa".
December 19, 202513min 59sec80.89 MB
Thumbnail for "Introducing 'Who Owns the Flavor: New Orleans'".
December 12, 202514min 16sec75.74 MB
Thumbnail for "All eyes on the ‘Catahoula Crunch’".
December 5, 202518min 5sec95.96 MB
Thumbnail for "Hurricane Katrina's impact on jails".
November 28, 202516min 38sec88.33 MB
Thumbnail for "Traffic and crashes around the world’s biggest data center".
November 21, 202515min 33sec82.51 MB
Thumbnail for "Why doesn’t the Gulf South have any drug checking services?".
November 14, 202513min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "What's going on with SNAP in the Gulf South?".
November 7, 202514min 16sec77.32 MB
Thumbnail for "Ghoulish Gumbo: Halloween tales from the Gulf South".
October 31, 202514min 16sec77.32 MB
Thumbnail for "Auto industry speed dating and Diwali upended by tariffs".
October 24, 202514min 16sec83.86 MB
Thumbnail for "O Canada! Come back to Louisiana?".
October 17, 202514min 16sec83.92 MB
Thumbnail for "If you build the jobs, will the workers come?".
October 10, 202514min 16sec84.07 MB
Thumbnail for "Nobody knows who can get a COVID shot in Louisiana".
October 3, 202514min 16sec83.92 MB
Thumbnail for "Surviving the heat and reclaiming the land in the Lower 9th Ward".
September 26, 202513min 59sec80.76 MB
Thumbnail for "As Gulfport, Mississippi, grows, so does its flood concerns".
September 19, 202514min 16sec77.32 MB
Thumbnail for "What immigration crackdowns look like in the Gulf South".
September 12, 202513min 59sec80.8 MB
Thumbnail for "Preserving culture after Hurricane Katrina".
September 5, 202513min 59sec74.19 MB
Thumbnail for "A train ride along the Gulf Coast for the first time since Katrina".
August 29, 202513min 59sec74.19 MB
Thumbnail for "Gumbo Live: When water costs more than a car".
August 22, 202513min 59sec80.81 MB
Thumbnail for "What New Orleans heat sounds like".
August 15, 202513min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Water versus land".
August 8, 202513min 59sec80.84 MB
Thumbnail for "Mom-and-pop grocers brace for SNAP cuts".
August 1, 202513min 59sec80.58 MB
Thumbnail for "How losing funding for Narcan could lead to more overdose deaths".
July 25, 202513min 59sec74.26 MB
Thumbnail for "We break a New Orleans bar out of Facebook jail".
July 18, 202513min 59sec74.27 MB
Thumbnail for "The Dutch solved their opioid crisis. Can their approach work in the Gulf South?".
July 11, 202513min 59sec74.19 MB
Thumbnail for "As storms surge, Alabama leads by fortifying its roofs".
July 4, 202513min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Louisiana gets serious about third-grade reading tests".
June 27, 202513min 59sec74.25 MB
Thumbnail for "How capital punishment methods can go wrong".
June 20, 202513min 59sec74.28 MB
Thumbnail for "The Gulf South’s nurse shortage is impacting sexual assault survivors".
June 13, 202513min 59sec74.03 MB
Thumbnail for "No movie theater in Clarksdale, Mississippi? That’s a sin".
June 6, 202513min 59sec74.02 MB
Thumbnail for "Putting the wind (and inflation) back into US shipbuilding".
May 30, 202513min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Washington makes cuts, the South feels the pain".
May 23, 202513min 59sec74.19 MB
Thumbnail for "Chicago Pope? More like Creole Pope".
May 16, 202513min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "How Louisiana continues to change the sports world".
May 9, 202513min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Using nature to solve man-made problems".
May 2, 202513min 59sec148.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Hip-hop takes center stage at Jazz Fest".
April 25, 202513min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Statehouse roundtable: Chaos, caution, finished honeymoons".
April 18, 202513min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Why Gulf Coast shrimpers see tariffs as a win".
April 11, 202514min 11sec75.27 MB
Thumbnail for "HBCUs and the next generation of environmental activists".
April 4, 202513min 59sec74.19 MB
Thumbnail for "How Alabama and Louisiana schools defied the COVID decline".
March 28, 202527min 23sec144.98 MB
Thumbnail for "What billions spent on data centers means for Mississippi".
March 21, 202513min 59sec74.22 MB
Thumbnail for "Southern scientists protest federal funding cuts".
March 14, 202513min 59sec20.24 MB
Thumbnail for "Who pays when ocean oil wells run dry?".
March 7, 202513min 59sec20.24 MB
Thumbnail for "Keeping Mardi Gras safe comes at a cost".
February 28, 202513min 59sec74.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Three scary words: Out. Of. Network.".
February 21, 202513min 59sec20.25 MB
Thumbnail for "How veterans are making sense of New Orleans attack".
February 14, 202513min 59sec20.25 MB
Thumbnail for "Super (Gumbo) Bowl Special".
February 7, 202516min 14sec86.18 MB
Thumbnail for "Rich soil. Dirty problem. Expensive fix.".
January 31, 202513min 59sec20.24 MB
Thumbnail for "The mystery of the missing water bills".
January 24, 202513min 58sec148 MB
Thumbnail for "The Louisiana French Connection".
January 17, 202513min 59sec74.24 MB
Thumbnail for "New Orleans’ residents are still recovering after New Year’s Day terror attack".
January 10, 202513min 59sec80.75 MB
Thumbnail for "The 2024 moments that will stick with us".
December 27, 202413min 59sec20.24 MB
Thumbnail for "New Orleans' buried history of jailing enslaved people".
December 20, 202413min 59sec74.25 MB
Thumbnail for "2024 Wrapped (southern union edition)".
December 13, 202413min 58sec20.37 MB
Thumbnail for "Strike while the iron is hot. Just be quick about it".
December 6, 202413min 59sec74.25 MB
Thumbnail for "Introducing ‘Bitter Jaguar’".
November 29, 202413min 59sec148.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Sanitation blues in Alabama's Black Belt".
November 22, 202413min 59sec74.22 MB
Thumbnail for "You’re panic buying wrong".
November 15, 202413min 59sec148.32 MB
Thumbnail for "Can you tell me how we got to District 2?".
November 8, 202413min 58sec148.15 MB
Thumbnail for "What’s the best way to use money to help people in need?".
November 1, 202413min 59sec74.21 MB
Thumbnail for "A sacred mound is returned to a Native American tribe".
October 25, 202413min 59sec148.29 MB
Thumbnail for "The rising cost of storm evacuation".
October 18, 202413min 59sec148.21 MB
Thumbnail for "Introducing: Gulf States Gumbo! Teaser".
October 7, 20241min 53sec21.86 MB

Jefferson Parish has the most opioid overdoses in Louisiana. How is it spending money intended to help?

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June 5, 202618min 6sec

On this week’s episode, we take a look at how the parish with the most opioid overdoses in Louisiana is spending its opioid settlement money. 

Jefferson Parish is receiving the largest share of money from legal settlements with opioid manufacturers, marketers and distributors. But an investigation from senior reporter Drew Hawkins and Verite News senior reporter Katie Jane Fernelius shows, so far, the parish has spent little of the money. And some believe what it has been spent on may not be the best investment. 

This episode is hosted by Drew Hawkins. The podcast is produced by Matt Bloom, Elise Catrion Gregg, Orlando Flores Jr. and Ryan Vasquez. Joseph King is our social producer. Nellie Beckett is our community engagement producer. Our theme music is by DJ Supreme. 

To get in touch with the team, email connect@gulfstatesnewsroom.org. 

And support our local station partners by donating to  WWNO, WRKF, MPB, or WBHM.

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