Where the Alligators Roam
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Where the Alligators Roam
Where The Alligators Roam is back on the ether, if not the air. The show is now done from the downtown Lafayette studios of Acadiana Open Channel. It streams on Cypress Street Radio on Sunday afternoons at 5 p.m. The podcasts will be available on Mondays. Part of the AOC Podcast Network.
Recent Episodes
41 episodes
John DeSantis: When Race & Labor Strife Turned Deadly
John DeSantis is a reporter based in southeast Louisiana. He uncovered a story about the violent end of a sugar cane labor strike in the nearby town o...
Rhonda Gleason: Schools as Killing Fields Reignite Moral Outrage
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America was formed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in December 2012. The group, whi...
Dr. Brian Marks & The Geography of Fairness
At the start of 2018, we are nearly three years out from the formal start of the redistricting process that will redraw lines for every legislative bo...
Mike Stagg: Looking Backward & Forward
This show materialized when I could not find a guest to interview during the final week of 2017. So, I wrote up some notes and reminders and recorded...
John M. Barry: The Writer Who Changed Louisiana's Conversation About the Coast
John M. Barry‘s books have informed and moved people, but his greatest accomplishment may well be having singled-handedly (at first) changed Louisiana...
Our Congressional Map Does Not Represent Us
An intra-party squabble involving Louisiana’s then-seven congressmen dominated the 2011 congressional redistricting process. Because other states grew...
Lily Stagg's Life-changing Summer in the Cycle Saddle
Lily Stagg spent the late spring and most of the summer of 2016 riding with a group of cyclists from South Carolina to Santa Cruz, California, helping...
Michelle Erenberg: Lifting Lousiana Women Above Laws Based on Lies
Michelle Erenberg is co-founder of Lift Louisiana — a non-profit based in New Orleans that advocates for the freedom of women to exercise their reprod...
Scott Eustis: Witness to Louisiana's Wetlands Reckoning
Scott Eustis has had a busy mid-2017.As the Gulf Restoration Network‘s wetlands specialist, he’s been part of flyovers finding chemical and petroleum...
U.S. Wars Kill Us, Too!
The United States spends more on military arms, equipment and personnel than any other country. More than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia and England comb...
Dr. Willie Parker: The Parable of the Good Samaritan and Abortion
Dr. Willie Parker was born into poverty and Christianity in Birmingham, AL. He became a doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology at the Univer...
Mike Deshotels: Using the Courts to De-Spin John White
For six years, there has been an epic David v. Goliath battle being fought in Louisiana over the fate of public education in our state. The Goliaths i...
Jack McGuire: Earl K. Long's Unlikely Defender
Jack McGuire met then-Governor Earl K. Long during Long’s 1959 campaign for Lieutenant Governor (in those days, Louisiana governors were barred from s...
Aimee Boyd Robinson: Petitioning to End a Scofflaw's Rule
Brian Pope was elected Lafayette City Marshal in December 2014, after defeating Kip Judice in the runoff to succeed longtime incumbent Nickey Picard,...
Rick Swanson: Truth Is Essential to Reconciliation
Dr. Rick Swanson is chair of the UL Lafayette Political Science Department. He was in the audience for the February 2016 LCG Council meeting when an h...
Albert Slap: The Risk & Costs of Climate Change
"For the second successive August, Louisiana is getting hit hard by rain. Last year, it was three days of heavy rains that dumped 20-inches of rain or...
Nancy MacLean: How Democracy Was Chained
"Nancy MacLean's Democracy In Chains not only sheds light on the history of the ideas that have come to dominate the best funded wing of U.S. conserva...
People, the Coast and Climate
"Scientists at 13 federal agencies have released the final draft of their report on the impact of climate change on the United States. The report says...
Kim Goodell: Water As Our Sacred Trust
"Americans are accustomed to things just working. Flip a switch and the lights come on. Open a tap and clean water flows from it. But, as investments...
LeAnn Magee: Taking Abita Green with Dollars & Sense
"Abita Springs is nestled in the piney woods of St. Tammany Parish, just east of Covington and north of Mandeville. The town has a well-earned reputat...
Ezra Boyd: Citizen. Scientist. Activist. Friend.
"Louisiana lost a great friend just before the Fourth of July when Ezra Boyd died.
Ezra helped as many people and organizations as he h...
Climate Change as Existential Threat
"Tropical Storm Cindy was a tiny storm that had an outsized impact on south Louisiana. Coastal flooding cut off LA 1 and extended westward to Cameron...
Jan Moller: On The Money Beat
"Calling Louisiana’s finances over the past decade a train wreck is an insult to trains and the calamities that sometimes engulf them.
...
Mercedes Schneider: Class Warrior
"Accountants took down the gangster Al Capone. If the corporate education reform movement in this country is brought down it will likely be by a stati...
Ganey Arsement: Giving John White His Due
"Ganey Arsement is a Calcasieu Parish educator who became an education advocate thanks to two men — Bobby Jindal and John White. Jindal began his seco...
Paul Douglas: Climate Change As a Matter of Faith
"Paul Douglas is an Evangelical Christian who lives in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota. He’s also a degreed meteorologist and an entreprene...
Amy Irvin: Helping Women Exercise Their Rights
"Listening to the rhetoric of anti-abortionists in and outside of government, it sometimes takes an effort to remember that abortions have been happen...
Don Clausen: Addiction and the Selective Use of Moral Judgment
"Don Clausen and I have been friends for 40 years. We met at what was then USL at, appropriately enough, a protest over tuition hikes.
...
Angelina Iles: Fierce Force for Good
"Angelina Iles draws out the best in people. She motivates them to accomplish more than they thought possible. She's been doing this for years in the...
Liam Doyle: Access Advocate
"Liam Doyle has been had mobility issues since he was born. He used a walker to get around in elementary school, but shifted to a chair in middle scho...
Dawn DeDeaux: Art in a Time of Creeping Catastrophe
"I interviewed Dawn DeDeaux in 2016. The exhibit at MassMOCA she describes here is about to open. The signs of the climate crisis that propels her art...
Albert Slap: Climate Risk Assessor
"How much is that Octopus in the parking garage?
The more important question is what will persistent exposure to tidal water do to the...
Harold Schoeffler: Citizen Witness
"Harold Schoeffler is a Louisiana treasure. He has more first-hand knowledge of the Atchafalaya Basin, the river that feeds it and the coast than any...
Ezra Boyd: Into the Disaster Data Void
"Situational awareness is critical in any stressful environment, but particularly so in the midst of disasters. Knowing how events — manmade or natura...
Governing and The End of Lockstep Conservatism
A funny thing happened on the new way to repealing the Affordable Care Act. It fractured conservatism.
House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled t...
Water & Us: Adapting to Constant Change
We live in a world of constant change. Everything we do changes the world that existed the moment before we did it. That includes flood plains, which...
March of Folly: I-49, Rail Yard Toxins and Lafayette’s Water
The big push is on to finalize (again) a design choice for the proposed I-49 route through downtown Lafayette. DOTD and Lafayette Consolidated Governm...
RootsCamp LA Rises to the Occasion
RootsCamp LA 7 is coming to Lafayette on March 18-19 and it’s a ‘must make’ event this year because of the surge of new activists that are now engage...
Will Investors Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory at Camp Minden?
The closed chamber burning of 16 million pounds of munitions accelerant is weeks away from being completed at Camp Minden. That work, led by the Conce...
The President as a Distraction from his Administration and the Congress
The President as a Distraction from his Administration and the Congress
Ted Harvey has decided to make it his business defending Presid...