Listening Post

This week we have the latest episode of WWNOs community engagement project the Listening Post. The team collected thoughts from local folks about the recent Presidential election, and how people feeling as the inauguration nears.

After the 2016 election, we collected voices around New Orleans. Talking about their feelings about the 45 President Elect.

This week we have the latest episode of WWNOs community engagement project the Listening Post. The Listening Post team collected thoughts from around New Orleans about which of the million dollar development projects that are transforming the city are getting used, and which have less clarity when it comes to their impact.

This latest Listening Post episode tackles the November 2016 election

Advice from New Orleans based Listening Posters who went through Katrina on how to recover from a flood.

What's it like to look for not only a job, but a career in New Orleans these days? Take a listen and find out.

A few months ago a housing notice went up on the local Craigslist page with the provocative headline: ‘3 bedroom, 900 square feet, God Damn, Someone Get Me Out Of New Orleans.’ The author went on to write: ‘Once the city was built for people like me, times change, now it's built for you.’ This sentiment, that New Orleans is no longer affordable to long term residents, has been getting louder lately. The Listening Post Project spent the past few weeks investigating the realities of the housing situation in the city, and brings us this segment:

Listening Post: Music and Heritage by Jesse Hardman

Listening Post: What do Jails and Prisons Do? by Jesse Hardman