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A look at Louisiana politics from Chaplain Hy McEnery and Christopher TidmoreCopyright News Talk 99.5 WRNO (WRNO-FM) Política y Gobierno
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  • Impact of Government Shutdown on our National Parks

    Impact of Government Shutdown on our National Parks
    Oct 13 2025
    Hy and Christopher take on the impact of the government shut down on our national parks, talk about October 15 deadline to pay our federal employees, whether we can return to the decorum of Ronald Reagan in our politics, And looking forward to the November elections, where a controversial tax will be on the Orleans ballot for affordable housing. Should we pass another tax when the council keeps rolling forward our existing miliages after rolling them back?

    Christopher reports from the road, broadcasting from Santa Barbara, California, having just completed a trip across Glacier National Park just hours before the government shut down, into the Waterton Lakes, Banff, and across Canada, and then on a Holland American line to San Diego. Tidbits from that trip, and how the government shutdown is affecting our transport in America are on the agenda!
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  • How To Improve Public Education In Louisiana

    How To Improve Public Education In Louisiana
    Oct 11 2025
    Hy and Christopher ponder how to improve public education in Louisiana, and one of the best opportunities that is going on is happening up in Monroe. The first International Baccalaureate school, with the IB educational program available for students from the very beginning opens its doors in Monroe.
    Educator Adam Ryland joins us to talk about the opportunities of multidisciplinary education and engagement with students. St. Frederick High School in Monroe is an IB World School offering the Middle Years Program (MYP) for grades 7-10, focusing on inquiry, international-mindedness, and holistic student development. While this is a prominent IB school in the area, other schools worldwide offer various IB programs, such as the Diploma Programme (DP) for the final years of high school. It offers hope for the Pelican State’s moribund educational system.
    Hy, then, embarks on a monologue on the impact of Charlie Kirk on free speech and the political environment.
    We also mentioned the Mayor’s race and the impact of turnout…
    Duplessis’ Fight for Black Votes
    By Christopher Tidmore
    The L.I.F.E. Ballot endorsed Councilwoman Helena Moreno for Mayor of New Orleans. The Louisiana Federation of independent Electors, an organization of which Dutch Morial co-founded and for which Marc Morial served as guiding force for decades, has advocated for a white candidate to become mayor. The organization most identified with the fight to elect the first Black mayor nearly nearly five decades ago now endorses a white candidate.
    This is just a glimpse of the climb that Sen. Royce Duplessis must accomplish by 8 PM on October 11. He must convince a supermajority of Black voters in Orleans Parish to cast for him in order to have a shot at a runoff slot and another month to fight. The state Senator’s original strategy of creating a biracial coalition, particularly with Republican support, has collapsed as 53% of GOP voters back Moreno and the remainder tend to support the Republican candidate Frank Janusa.
    Duplessis’ best hope would be to force a runoff by a narrow margin, and the chances of that are as narrow as electorally conceivable. Moreno commanded 49 percent in a University of New Orleans survey last week, followed by Duplessis with 15 percent and Councilman Oliver Thomas with 13 percent.
    However, one in five respondents remain undecided, with an overwhelming number of these African-American voters, and upon this Black electorate Duplessis has gambled. The state Senator runs on a strategy of African-American dissatisfaction with the fights between the city council and the mayor and anxiety of electing another Caucasian mayor of New Orleans in a Black majority city. Consequently, he seeks to drive up African-American turnout, with himself as the beneficiary. It is the only means for Duplessis’ gambel to pay off and earn a runoff slot— if Black voters respond to his message.
    The state Senator responded to a question in a recent forum that underlines his strategy. He subsequently broadcast this question on every social media platform, almost minute by minute. As Duplessis explains his campaign thesis, “The one thing we’re not gonna do is ignore race. Because race-bases issues cannot be solved by avoiding the conversation around race. Your question pointed out the stark racial disparities around economics in New Orleans. New Orleans is still a majority Black city, but we’re not just a majority Black city. We are one of the most culturally rich cities in the world where the contributions of Black people mean so much—not just a New Orleans culture—but to the entire world.”
    However, Helena Moreno has done a very good job in courting African-American voters, and their leaders, which could thwart the state Senator’s strategy. Congressman Troy Carter, heads the other political faction in Orleans Parish, and he endorsed the Councilwoman’s campaign, just like L.I.F.E. and a myriad other Black elected officials—leading to questions of whether higher turnout will even affect Moreno’s glide-path to 50.1 percent on October 11.
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  • Breaking Down Race For New Orleans Mayor

    Breaking Down Race For New Orleans Mayor
    Sep 29 2025
    Hy and Christopher breakdown the current NOLA Mayoral race and pose the question of how high African-American turnout will be? If it’s low, Helena Moreno will teeter on the verge of a first primary victory. If it’s moderate, Royce Duplessis has a chance to make the runoff— and unify African-American voters behind him in November.We then talk about the various Orleans Council races, and after the break, we break down the Slidell Mayor’s race. The major controversy is over buying a former outlet mall, with local government raising sales taxes to buy a private business.It leads us to a discussion of how Donald Trump is acquiring federal ownership of private corporations, and Nigel Farage, darling of the British right, wants to nationalize companies. Are Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher turning over in their graves?Finally, moving on to another piece of conservative heresy, we discuss a program that many thought a GOP accomplishment of the 1980s, the H-1B visas. Hy and Christopher agree on a criticism Donald Trump, for once—the $100,000 is too high a fee.The True Cost of $100,000 H-1B FeeBy Christopher TidmoreIn another two months, the midyear engineering and finance graduate students will receive their diplomas from Tulane, Loyola, and Louisiana’s state universities. A plurality of these STEM students are foreign-born but have lived in the Pelican State for years. Then, upon receiving their diplomas, a disproportionate number of them will be forced to leave the country—after the United States government has invested thousands of dollars in their education through federal funding of postgrad science-based curricula.The reason, starting in 2026, these recent graduated will have to pay $100,000 just for the chance to apply for a job. On Friday, September 19, President Trump signed an executive order that requires a $100,000 payment to accompany any new H-1B visa petition, representing a huge jump in costs, up from a few thousand dollars previously. As the White House argued, Trump instituted the new fee to curb abuse in an H-1B system that has been “deliberately exploited to re-place, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.”In practice, however, the H-1B visas are determined from the lottery of 85,000 applicants which mostly favors individuals educated at American graduate schools. In other words, the program tends to select for a plurarity of individuals educated domestically thanks to large federal appropriations to engineering, science, and high-tech University programs.The federal government has now embarked on a course to invest federal tax dollars to educate individuals which ICE will then will seek to deport. This is not only a morally bankrupt policy, it is economic idiocy. We are paying for schooling of the world‘s best and brightest whom we subsequently cast out of our nation.Moreover, in the interconnected world of the Internet economy, it is as if these individuals will not get hired elsewhere, often by the very US firms which would have employed them domestically. They just will not pay US income or local property taxes or contribute to the American economy in a fashion necessary to repay the federal tax dollars invested in their education.The Thursday, September 25, 2025 edition of the Wall Street Journalquoted Ezra Gershanok, chief executive and co-founder of subleasing marketplace Ohana. He said that he does not expect to sponsor more H-IB visas now that the petition fee jumped to $100,000 under President Trump's new rules. He will hire contractors abroad instead.“If the intended purpose is to have more domestic hiring, that is not going to be the case for us," Gershanok told the WSJ.As the financial newspaper went on note, founders of venture-backedUS startups have begun to rethink hiring plans following the imposition of the whopping new fee on H-IB visa petitions. Some founders expect to bring on foreign workers remotely or to rely more on international offices. Ohana, which has raised $6 million in venture funding, now employs 11 people. Six are based in New York, including a new hire in a business development role who is a U.K. citizen and won the H-1B lottery earlier this year, Gershanok said. The other five people at Ohana are international contractors working in South Africa and Portugal.Admittedly, amongst some of the well-funded companies, some refuse to rule out paying the high fee in rare cases. However, the real worry is the loss of the talents these bright young people could bring into the US economy by fulfilling their own dreams and aspirations. Venture investors express a worry to the Journal that immigration roadblocks will deter the foreign-born, yet American educated, from starting companies in the US.Trump defends the $100,000 application fee declaring that many Democrats have called for limits on H-IB visa petitions in the past, yet previous Democratic presidents proved smart enough ...
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