* New Orleans ranks as the 11th worst city for first-time home buyers. How has the market been looking? We’ll break it down with local real estate analyst Arthur Sterbcow and get some tips for those looking to make the jump from renting to buying.

* We’ll recap President Trump’s address to the nation and go over over how his approval ratings are looking with political analyst David Schultz.

New Orleans and Jefferson Parish leaders have reached an agreement on redeveloping West End. We talk with Councilmember Aimee McCarron about the news.

President Trump and his family have benefited from a number of trade deals. Is it abnormal?

We talk with Tad DeHaven, an economic analyst with the Cato Institute.

New Orleans ranks as the 11th worst city for first-time home buyers. How has the market been looking? We’ll break it down with local real estate analyst Arthur Sterbcow and get some tips for those looking to make the jump from renting to buying.

President Trump gave an address and focused on election security and voter fraud. Is that really a problem?

David Schultz, Professor of Political Science at Hamline University, joins us.

Code orange! It's a social media code that alerts users that Summerween has come to a particular store. Halloween. We also check in on the wildfires with a pair who narrowly escaped them in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. And we check in on kid and mental health.

* Eugene Green on the S&WB: "The bottom line is they have to do better"

* Where y'at this weekend: burlesque, Creepy Fest, and Tales of the Cocktail

* How is the food safety system supposed to work?

* The DDD has a plan to help fill vacant properties. Here are the details

* It's unfortunately perfect mosquito breeding weather

* What’s going on this weekend? We go over some of the big events and happenings around the New Orleans area with Josh Danzig, owner of Where Y’at Magazine, and some of the best ones you should check out.

* If you'd rather stay in...what movies and shows will be leaving streaming in the final couple weeks of July? Which ones will be coming to streaming soon? We break it all down

* Have we been having more food safety issues recently? We spend some time with Darin Detwiler, an author and professor at Northeastern University, about food safety, what the government does to manage things, and how the whole system is supposed to work.

* Getting the latest on oil and gas prices and what we're paying at the pump with Patrick De Haan, the chief of petroleum analysis for Gas Buddy.

* Eugene Green on the S&WB: "The bottom line is they have to do better"

* The Downtown Development District has launched “Activate Downtown,” a new program to try and fill vacant properties around downtown New Orleans. We’ll get the details