New Orleans Politics Finds Itself Back in the Bin Again (Full Show: 9/24/2025)

On today's show, Newell has on Sidney Torres IV, owner and President of IV Waste, to explain why New Orleans recently securing a $3.98 million EPA grant to expand residential curbside recycling is a bad idea. Michel Sadelain, M.D., Ph.D., Herbert & Florence Irving Professor of Medicine & Director of the Columbia Initiative in Cell Engineering and Therapy, to discuss the development of CAR T-cell therapy to fight blood cancer, Michael Hecht, President & CEO of GNO Inc., to talk about the latest good local and national news, Jon Renthrope, a New Orleans native, entrepreneur, and brewmaster who founded Cajun Fire Brewing Company® in 2011, to talk about being the second-longest continuously operating Black-owned beer brand in the world, Arthur Sterbcow, a local real estate analyst, to discuss how Tulane's new school policy that requires students to live on campus for their first three years has created a new real estate challenge for the surrounding neighborhood, and Curtis Hill, Project 21 Ambassador, to talk about the legacy Charlie Kirk leaves behind and why, as a black man, he shares Charlie’s much-quoted concerns about DEI.