10/19 Monday: Dyslexia, Gubernatorial Election, and BP

HOUR ONE: 

Laura Cassidy

Dr. Laura Cassidy is the co-founder of the Louisiana Key Academy, a public charter school focusing on children with dyslexia in East Baton Rouge and the surrounding parishes. She serves as President of the board.  Dr. Cassidy says that one in five people are affected by dyslexia.  

Clancy DuBos

Clancy DuBos is the owner of The Gambit.  He discusses the Gubernatorial election, the debate tonight, and the latest revelations about Senator Vitter.  DuBos also shares the Vitter update: inconsistencies come to life. 

Felicia Harry 

Felicia Harry is a board member of the 2014 LSU Legends Forum.  She discusses the annual party for the A. P. Turreau Louisiana Chapter of the NAACP for Homecoming week.  

HOUR TWO: 

Jeremy Alford

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Jeremy Alford is the publisher and editor of LaPolitics.com.  Alford discusses the Gubernatorial election and the latest revelations on David Vitter. 

Steve Cochran

Steve Cochran is the Associate Vice President on Coastal Protection for the Environmental Defense Fund.  He discusses why the BP money should be spent on coastal issues.  

Friday: Gubernatorial Candidate Debate, Same Sex Marriage Decision, NFL Football, and Agriculture.

HOUR ONE: 

Clancy Dubos

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Clancy DuBos is the Gambit co-owner and a Political Editor and Anyalyst.  He comments today on the Gubernatorial candidate debate in New Orleans.  

Mike Wolf

Mike Wolf is an attorney.  He discusses the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage across the United States.  

Pat Collins

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Pat Collins is the former championship football coach at then-Northeast Louisiana University and currently a consultant at Calvary Baptist in Shreveport.  

HOUR TWO: 

Mike Strain

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Mike Strain is the Commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.  

Bruce Parker and Gene Mills

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Bruce Parker is the Executive Director of Louisiana Progress.  Gene Mills is the President of Louisiana Family Forum.  Parker and Mills discuss and debate the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage throughout the United States.  

Kevin Faulk

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Kevin Faulk is a former LSU running back.  He was drafted by the New England Patriots and played in the NFL for 13 years.    

WEDNESDAY: Author Greg Iles, New Orleans Gambit, Feminism and the Restaurant Industry, and BP Oil Disaster

HOUR ONE: 

Author Greg Iles comments on his book The Bone Tree.  He shares his experience of a car crash, and how it inspired him to "tell the story the way it should be told" regardless of others' opinions.  It is the second book in a trilogy.  He tried to tell the story as close to the truth as he could write fiction.  

Greg Iles comments on his lead character Penn Cage.  "He's much more of a boy scout than I am."

He speaks on the death of the character Viola Turner.  He is producing a television series of the trilogy with Toby McGuire "I would like to shoot at least half of this show in Concordia parish," Iles says, in hope to sway the people of Louisiana in favor of film tax credits.  

Publisher of the New Orleans Gambit Clancy DuBos joins us to talk about the Louisiana Legislation.  "We are not bringing in enough revenue to meet the annual commitment we have made," DuBos says.  He continues saying that Louisiana should not be selling off assets just to "keep the lights on." 

A listener asks, "Is it really the role of the taxpayer to pay for education?"  

HOUR TWO:

Las Vegas Waitress Britney Bronson shares her article on feminism and the restaurant industry.  She is an English instructor at the UNLV.  She has been a waitress in Las Vegas for four years.  "Often my approach is to make a joke or feign humor at inappropriate behavior," she says of her waitressing job, "because these people are paying my bills I often excuse the treatment."  

Bronson describes a story in which a man asked for her phone number repeatedly to which she declined each time.  The man waited for her until the end of her shift and asked for her phone number for money.  

"When I leave work, work is over," she says, "but ultimately it does create relief." 

She reveals she does not always tell her students of her part time job.  

Former State Senator Dr. Mike Robichaux comments on the BP Oil Disaster.  He identifies as a populist.  He speaks about people who are impacted by illness from being exposed to the BP oil spill, some of which are his patients.  

"The number one thing they had was headache.  The number two thing and most prominent thing is memory loss."  He speaks about a class law suit, but that there is no compensation for individual suits.  

"Rashes were one of the things that they (BP) compensated," Dr. Robichaux says.

Today is the 79th birthday of Glen Campbell.  Rhinestone cowboy was ranked as the number 1 song in 1975.