Newell Normand

The Grow Louisiana Coalition (GLAC) is Louisiana's largest grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to supporting the energy industry in our state with more than 100,000 supporters. In “Time to Choose: Trial Lawyers or Trump’s Energy Agenda?” GLAC Executive Director Marc Ehrhardt calls out Gov. Jeff Landry and other state leaders for celebrating “tort reform” that does nothing to stop the coastal lawsuits still threatening energy jobs, investment, and future growth in Louisiana. Marc Ehrhardt joins Newell to explain their position.

Newell talks about the importance of paying attention to the candidates for Orleans Parish Sheriff's stance on immigration and if New Orleans is a sanctuary city, and the uselessness of the Crescent City ID program.

On today's show, Newell talks about the bankruptcy settlement of the New Orleans Catholic church.

Then, Newell has on

Jeff Nowak, WWL Saints Sideline Reporter & Digital Content Producer, to talk about Saints training camp after a week of practice in pads,

New Orleans Councilman Freddie King to discuss the story of the Plume restaurant,

Joan Alker, Executive Director of the Center for Children & Families, to discuss how the Big Beautiful Bill will affect rural hospitals in Louisiana,

and Guy Williams, President of Gulf Coast Bank & Trust, to talk about the latest economic news.

This hour, Newell is joined by Guy Williams, President of Gulf Coast Bank & Trust, to talk about the case for (and against) a Fed rate cut, more trouble with the auto industry, the FedEx package delay scam, and the Credit Bureau gift card settlement scam.

This hour, Newell has on New Orleans Councilman Freddie King to discuss the story of the Plume restaurant, a tiny Indian restaurant in Algiers, whose husband-and-wife owners say that due to an onerous city licensing procedure, they owe $4,800 in fines, which will put them out of business. Then, Joan Alker, Executive Director of the Center for Children & Families, joins the show to discuss how the Big Beautiful Bill will affect rural hospitals in Louisiana.

How will the Big Beautiful Bill affect rural hospitals in Louisiana? The Louisiana Illuminator recently did a Q&A with Jeff Reynolds of the Rural Hospital Coalition of Louisiana. Joan Alker, Executive Director of the Center for Children & Families, joins Newell to break down the good and the bad.

Councilman Freddie King joins Newell to discuss the story of the Plume restaurant, a tiny Indian restaurant in Algiers, whose husband-and-wife owners say that due to an onerous city licensing procedure, they owe $4,800 in fines, which will put them out of business.

This hour, Newell talks about the bankruptcy settlement of the New Orleans Catholic church. Then, Jeff Nowak, WWL Saints Sideline Reporter & Digital Content Producer, joins the show to talk about Saints training camp after a week of practice in pads.

Jeff Nowak, WWL Saints Sideline Reporter & Digital Content Producer, joins Newell to talk about Saints training camp after a week of practice in pads.

On today's show, Newell expresses his concerns with the international student VISA program.

Then, Newell has on

Colonel Alex Gan, a retired Colonel and fighter pilot for the Israeli Air Force, to share his perspective of the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East,

JP Morrell, New Orleans City Councilmember, Mayor LaToya Cantrell extending IV Waste's emergency sanitation contract for the French Quarter,

Becky Mowbray, President & CEO of the Bureau of Governmental Research, to share questions intended for candidates of the New Orleans mayor, council, and sheriff races,

and Professor Charles Baird, Professor of Economics Emeritus at the California State University, East Bay, to discuss a CATO study that says federal laws on private sector labor unions should be repealed.