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Full Show 5/28/2026: Public officials have been using NDAs to shield themselves from probative questioning
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- Newell Normand
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- May 28, 2026
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Summary
On today's show, Newell shares his thoughts on Louisiana Republican State Senator Jay Morris facing ethics scrutiny over real estate transactions adjacent to Meta's Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, amid a broader controversy regarding Non-Disclosure Agreements signed by elected state officials. Then, Newell has on Gordon Dove, Chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, to break down the clash between researchers and state officials over levees, wetlands, climate projections, and whether coastal retreat is really inevitable for southeast Louisiana, Michael Hecht, President & CEO, GNO Inc., to talk about a recent CNN piece Harvard PhD/Yale Professor Brianna Castro saying she is "optimistic that building a New Orleans 2.0 on safer ground can be done without sacrificing culture” and to "build a great city and people will come; you don’t have to lose the spirit of New Orleans,” Chris Abadie, Senior Vice President at Collier’s, to talk about a submission he's penned for CityBusiness that outlined how Greater New Orleans has shifted from a region of potential to a region of actual, measurable growth with more than $44 billion in industrial development underway across every parish, and Rafael Goyeneche, President of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, to discuss the inadvertent release of Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office inmate Dreion Williams.