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Roux Radio 10/30

This week on Roux Radio, how Baton Rouge can tidy up its suburban sprawl, keeping the LSU lakes healthy, and exploring the state's sales tax structure.

Baton Rouge is a city of neighborhoods and neighborhood associations. One such group has folks coming together to make beautiful music. Frank Barnett drops in on a backyard concert in Capitol Heights.

Lafayette is working to address their suburban sprawl problem with the help of the nonprofit  Strong Towns. The president of Strong Towns, Chuck Marohn, says Baton Rouge could learn a thing or two from Lafayette’s example. That’s on Insight.

On Louisiana’s Lab, Travis Lux investigates competing plans to keep the LSU lakes healthy.

Now is the perfect time to plant some wonderfully fragrant cool-season bedding plants. Dan Gill has more on Bayou Garden.

And on Capitol Access, Wallis Watkins explores how internet purchases play into the state’s sales tax structure.