AGR - Louisiana Edition
Shreveport City Marshal Spends $10,000 on Beachfront Lodging — And Calls It "Permissible"
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 17, 2026. We open by digging into a legislative auditor's report on the Shreveport city marshal's office, which spent nearly $10,000 on lodging for four employees at a Destin, Florida conference, well above the rates state judges and city employees are actually capped at, and we make the case for why "permissible" isn't the same as right when it comes to public money. From there we run through the headlines you need to know, covering the Port of New Orleans' major expansion into St. Bernard Parish, a lawsuit from Calvin Duncan over the elimination of the New Orleans criminal clerk of court position, and the end of six decades of federal oversight over desegregation in Bienville Parish schools. We dig into Louisiana's ongoing jail capacity problem, arguing that no politician's tough-on-crime promise means anything until they answer where the criminals are actually going to be held, and we touch on a Natchitoches Parish lawsuit over inmate transfers between jails. We also cover reports of 400% food price inflation hitting ordinary Iranians under the ayatollahs, the Democratic National Committee's "big tent" comments out of its Austin meeting and what we think it reveals about the party's lack of a coherent standard, and a CBS News/YouGov poll on Democrats' favorable views of socialism. We play a game guessing which states have the most Fortune 500 company headquarters, and close with CNBC hosts pushing back on Democrats' economic doom-and-gloom in light of low unemployment and cooling inflation. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, visit AmericanGroundRadio.com, and join the conversation at 866-AGR-1776.
