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Wendy Coker, Assistant Director of the Deaf Action Center in Shreveport, and LaToya Foster, Independent Living Specialist with New Horizons Independent Living Center, will join our host, Jenny Gregorio, LMSW, to talk about services available for the deaf and hard of hearing community. Questions will be taken at 1-800-552-8502.

On this episode, the panel discusses the holidays of Passover, Ramadan, Holy Week and Easter. Airs Easter Sunday, 2023

- Severe weather pummeled much of the RRR Listening area last night.- Medicaid recipients will begin to receive letters in the mail to verify whether or not they are still eligible for coverage.- A last-minute bill to lower corporate and personal income taxes in Arkansas was filed with a week left in the legislative session.

Co-hosts Cliff Shackelford and Dr. Beverly Burden (of What's Bugging You) join forces to answer your questions about birds, and insects in this 6th annual episode. 6pm, April 11, 2023. They will take your calls at 318-798-0102 and 318-798-0105.

- Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.- The Texas Senate has voted to no longer exclude minors currently undergoing gender-affirming care from a proposed statewide ban.- Caddo Parish Administrator Dr. Woodrow "Woody" Wilson, Jr. has announced that he will be retiring.

- Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has weighed in on the recent court case on the so-called Abortion Pill Ban.- An environmental advocacy group found more than 409,000 tons of air pollution was released in Texas from 2016 to 2022 during unexpected emission events.- Shreveport’s First United Methodist Church voted Sunday on whether or not to leave the Louisiana Conference - United Methodist Church.

- A McCurtain County official who was identified on an audio recording discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people has resigned.- Republican officials in Louisiana are proposing a ban on teaching about racism at the state's higher education institutions.- The Texas Senate moved forward a bill last night) that would ban Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in the state's public universities.- Severe thunderstorms will likely develop today across Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas, and into Northern Louisiana later this evening into the overnight hours.

April’s Conserving Earth features discussion about the Farm Bill and its impact on habitat conservation and natural resources management. Host Rebecca Triche is joined by Commissioner Mike Strain of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry; Chad Kacir, the NRCS State Conservationist for Louisiana; and Bill Bartush, a certified wildlife biologist with the American Bird Conservancy working with the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture.

- Oklahoma's Governor and the state NAACP have called for the resignations of McCurtain County Sheriff and other officials upon learning of audio recordings allegedly discussing hiring hitmen to kill a local newspaper reporter and lynch black people.- President Joe Biden will nominate a North Texas Judge to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.- The Texas Senate has passed its proposed spending plan of the $308 billion budget.- Arkansas Governor Sara Huckabee-Sanders says a special legislative session is possible to focus on the state's Medicaid program.

- The Texas House has given preliminary approval to a bill that would remove some library books from public schools for containing sexually explicit language.- Louisiana has made the top 10 list of “Best States for Fishing in 2023”.- If Texas were a country, it would have the ninth largest economy in the world. In short – business is booming in Texas.- A truck hauling mangos in Rapides Parish was pulled over by sheriff's deputies and a K9 discovered it was transporting something else.