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On this week's episode, we stir the pot from the Saturn music venue in Birmingham, recorded on August 9th, 2025.

Response to the May jailbreak has headlined the race, but recruitment, financial management and programs for people in custody are also on candidates' minds.

We know what the heat in New Orleans feels like, and we know what the data can look like with charts and graphs. But what does it sound like?

It was a routine stop — the Kenner Police officers who pulled him over said Sanchez had run a red light — but it ended with Sanchez in a federal immigration detention center.

On this week's episode, we venture onto the Pearl River, which flows through Jackson, Mississippi, down into southeastern Louisiana.

Data from climate scientists show that the heat is turning up in New Orleans, and the rate that it’s increasing is getting faster. Here’s why.

In this week's episode, economic mobility reporter Stephan Bisaha visits an Alabama grocer bracing for cuts to SNAP.

The bulk of sales for many independent grocers come from SNAP. Cuts to the program could leave some making hard decisions about their future.

In this week’s episode, we go to the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to find out how losing the funding for overdose-reversal drugs could reverse progress made in the opioid crisis.

For this week's episode, we go to a New Orleans neighborhood bar that lost about $10,000 because of scammers, along with losing access to her Meta accounts.