morning show interviews

Lafayette Police Corporal Paul Mouton joined "Mornings With Ken & Bernie" today to talk about a gathering Lafayette Police held yesterday to discuss the growing problem of copper thefts.

The Lafayette City Parish President joined The Morning Report today to talk about the latest with the Charter Commission, an ordinance dealing with a Taxing Increment Financing measure on next week's agenda, and to answer questions about road projects.

State Senator Mike Michot joined The Morning Report for another segment of "Acadiana Live" featuring local political leaders.  Michot says the about to be completed special session on redistricting has been intense, and lawmakers have faced scrutiny.

Every second someone is not breathing while suffering from a heart attack, it moves them closer to damage and death.  EMS Academy Director Gifford Saravia tells Bernadette Lee and Ken Romero why someone should be coming a HeartStarter.

Scott Angelle, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, continues his fight for the oil and gas industry.  The Secretary joined The Morning Report today to give the latest with the permits in the Gulf.

On today's Morning Report Ken Romero and I had the chance to talk to two TEA Party of Lafaytte members about why they are opposed to TIFS.  Jeremiah Supple and Mark Tolson are very much in favor of business development, but they are very against government getting invovled with help to build a five star hotel.  Supple and Tolson explain their reasons:

Today's edition of Wingin' It Wednesday during the KPEL Morning Show featured Warren Caudle, Carol Ross and Mike Stagg talking about a variety of issues.   Topics today included the Lafayette Housing Authority and OPEC.

This morning, Tony Credeur, director of the Acadiana Chapter of the American Red Cross spoke with KPEL's morning team about the ongoing efforts to clean up after Saturday's tornado in Rayne.  Credeur says there will be a lot of repairs to property after the F-2 rippled through a 1/3 of the town.

Today, the Revenue Estimating Conference will be reporting to Governor Bobby Jindal the latest with sales, business and other taxes coming into the state's coffers.  The question is-will this make a major change in the amount of the this year's budget shortfall?  State Senator Mike Michot tries to answer that question.

U.S. Senator David Vitter joined the Morning Report to give details on his latest effort to get the Obama administration moving on drilling permits.

Chris Botti performs at the Heymann Center this Sunday night!  Apiyo Obala has details.

7th District Congressman Charles Boustany does not hold much hope that President Barack Obama's budget for 2012 will do good things for our country.

Office of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Nick Gautreaux and one of his managers, Geraldine Duplantis, joined The KPEL Morning Report to talk about OMV's operations.

Governor Bobby Jindal and his administrative team are looking at ways to make cuts to the 1.6 billion dollar budget deficit.  State Senator Elbert Guillory says he thinks UNO and SUNO should be consolidated.