Wes Palmisano, Founder & CEO of RNGD, joins Newell to discuss the recent opening of their expanded site in Metairie, which will function as the company’s headquarters, a training facility, and manufacturing space.

This hour, Newell addresses a Minnesota state employee training curriculum that teaches that everyone is "swimming in the waters of white supremacy" and links the Republican Party to the white supremacist agenda. Then, Newell opens the phone lines and the WWL callers have a passionate discussion of race relations in the United States.

Newell addresses a Minnesota state employee training curriculum that teaches that everyone is "swimming in the waters of white supremacy" and links the Republican Party to the white supremacist agenda.

On today's show, Newell addresses the lawsuits filed against President Trump by US Catholic bishops over a halt of refugee funding and the favorable treatment of migrants and refugees over US citizens.

Then, Newell has on:

Jeff Nowak, WWL Saints Sideline Reporter & Digital Content Producer,

Daphine Barnes, Executive Director of Economic Mobility at GNO Inc.,

Patrick Button, Associate Professor of Economics at Tulane University,

Elad Inbar, a robotics expert,

and New Orleans City Councilmember JP Morrell.

This hour, Newell speaks with Elad Inbar, a robotics expert, about manufacturing companies looking towards robotics to fill staffing shortages. Then, New Orleans City Councilmember JP Morrell joins the show to talk about the Jefferson Parish School Board, the budget, and Mardi Gras!

New Orleans City Councilmember JP Morrell joins Newell to talk about the Jefferson Parish School Board, the budget, and Mardi Gras!

As manufacturing companies search far and wide for employees to enter plants, many employers are automating jobs via collaborative robots, or “cobots,” in hopes of filling staffing shortages and freeing employees to handle more meaningful tasks. Elad Inbar, a robotics expert, joins Newell to talk about it.

This hour, Newell has on Daphine Barnes, Executive Director of Economic Mobility at GNO Inc., joins Newell to discuss the Greater New Orleans Innovation Internship Program, which just hosted interviews between local students and employers. Then, Patrick Button, Associate Professor of Economics at Tulane University, joins the show to discuss how the U.S. economy depends on rich people more than ever.

The highest-earning 10% of Americans have increased their spending far beyond inflation. Everyone else hasn’t. Many Americans are pinching pennies, exhausted by high prices and stubborn inflation. The well-off are spending with abandon. But is this a dependable framework for economic stability? Patrick Button, Associate Professor of Economics at Tulane University, at Tulane University, joins Newell to discuss the implications.

Daphine Barnes, Executive Director of Economic Mobility at GNO Inc., joins Newell to discuss the Greater New Orleans Innovation Internship Program, which just hosted interviews between local students and employers.