LSU Political Science Professor Wayne Parent joins us on his last day at the Ole War Skule after 37 years as a professor and former chair of the department. Parent is considered one of the most prominent observers and analysts of Louisiana politics and is the author of “Inside the Carnival". Former NASA historian Roger Launius remembers the first Astronauts to land on the Moon with the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission two months away. Launius’ book is “Apollo’s Legacy.”

Congressman Mike Johnson, Republican from Shreveport and member of the House Judiciary Committee, says his Democratic colleagues are off base in seeking to question witnesses detailed in the Mueller Report. Barry Weinstein, Rabbi Emeritus in Baton Rouge, recaps his dramatic recovery from an aortic aneurysm three years ago and examines lack of religious tolerance in the current age. Author and former NYPD police officer Joe Ested recaps a criminal attack against an inmate in the Ascension Parish Jail, resulting in the firing of a corrections officer and resignation of the warden. Laura Schroff discusses the unlikely friendship between a New York sales executive and a homeless eleven year old boy.

Rev. Jacqueline King of Haughton, formerly pastor of First United Methodist Denham Springs, comments on Millennial love for Harry Potter. Loyola University Law Professor Bill Quigley on the failed effort to stop the death penalty in Louisiana. Deborah Sternberg updates the Young Entrepreneur’s Academy.

Daniel Okrent, one of America’s most celebrated journalists with top positions at the New York Times and Time Magazine in his varied career, reviews America’s history of immigration in “The Guarded Gate.” Okrent says Adolph Hitler was inspired by junk science in the U.S. during the 1920s which produced a harsh national anti-immigration law and caused some to espouse a flawed theory of eugenics. Okrent is also the inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball and discovered the game’s best known sabermetrician  Bill James. Advocate Capitol Bureau Chief Mark Ballard looks at a week at the Legislature which saw trial lawyers win a round over insurance interests and much buzz about the Advocate purchasing the Times-Picayune. Kevin Glass, Vice President of Communications for the National Taxpayers Union, analyzes the issue of net neutrality and the Save the Internet Act.

Louisiana Democratic Party Executive Director Stephen Handwerk on the election of 2019 with Gov. John Bel Edwards seeking re-election but other statewide races seeing few Democrats challenging GOP incumbents.

National Federation of Business State Director Dawn Starns reviews measures to raise minimum wage and provide equal pay under debate at the Louisiana Legislature. Former Louisiana Senator and Representative Ben Bagert, a New Orleans lawyer, defends Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the Mueller Report. Actor David A.R. White on his appearance in Baton Rouge for the Salvation Army.

Darryl Gissel, Chief Administrative Officer for Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, comments on issues that are permeating in the mayor’s third year at City Hall, including city finances, traffic, crime, police pay and the prospect of the Village of St. George. Robin McCullough-Bade, Executive Director of the Interfaith Federation of Greater Baton Rouge, and Baton Rouge Islamic Center leader Emad Nofal discuss attacks on religious congregations in America.

State Representative Pat Smith of Baton Rouge on a busy docket at the Legislature and her quest to become a state Senator. Lamar White of the Bayou Brief comments on the acquisition of the Times-Picayune by John Georges, the Louisiana governor’s election and a collision in the Beltway over the Mueller Report.

State Representative Royce Duplessis and Peter Robins-Brown, Communications Director for the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice on House Bill 422, which would repeal the state preemption of local  control of minimum wage and family and sick leave policies. Mark Ballard, Capitol Bureau Chief for the Advocate, notes that social issues remain vibrant in the Legislature and Ballard assesses the Louisiana Senate reaction to Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee of which John Kennedy is a member. Jason Baumann of the New York Public Library reflects on the 50 year anniversary of the historic Stonewall uprising.

Advocate Editor Peter Kovacs comments on the Pulitzer Prize won by the newspaper last month on the sixth anniversary of the change of ownership of the state’s largest newspaper. Conservative Activist, Colonel Rob Maness, surveys the national and local political landscape with Attorney General William Barr testifying before Congress and the Louisiana Legislature weighing the merits of capital punishment.