Author: Tom Walker

This Wednesday, October 24, we’ll get a report from Ron Turner, our Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections, about the unprecedented number of Vote By Mail ballots being sent and counted in this election. We’ll update this post as other guests confirm for our Wednesday show. ___________ See the positions of  ten different organizations on the […]

We’ll help kick off the WSLR FALL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE this Wednesday morning October 17 at 9 a.m.. When you call 941-954-8636  – and we hope  you will – be sure to mention Peace & Justice on your pledge! Our first guest will be Christopher Wilson, PhD, Chairman of the Sarasota Architectural Foundation. He’ll be talking […]

On the Peace & Justice Report this Wednesday, October 10, from 9 until 10 a.m., we’ll talk first about the Legacy Trail. Andrea Seager, Secretary of Friends of the Legacy Trail,  and board member Rita Miotti will be in the studio to talk about the bond referendum on the Sarasota County ballot to extend the trail. See […]

There will be up to nineteen  questions on the ballot in Sarasota County in this election. Twelve of the questions are about revisions to the Florida state constitution and the rest concern local Sarasota County matters, including a Sarasota city question and a North Port charter question. Obviously you’ll want to avoid the long lines […]

This Wednesday, September 26, our guest on the Peace and Justice Report will be veteran Herald-Tribune reporter Billy Cox. Billy will talk about his series in the paper “Warriors Rise Up.” Read all of it at rxforveterans.com. Billy writes “In June 2018, the Department of Veterans Affairs Suicide Report indicated that more than 75,000 Americans with military […]

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This Wednesday, September 12 at 9am, our guest on the Peace & Justice Report will be Zac Anderson of the Herald-Tribune. Zac is a political reporter at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and has covered  both local and state politics there since 2006. Zac graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. Our guest in […]

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Michael Rogers, associate professor of history and politics at State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota (SCF), was selected to serve on the state’s Civic Literacy Competency bias and Sensitivity Review Committee as a subject matter expert. We’ll talk Wednesday about civic literacy and how to improve it. We’ll also talk about amendment 8 on the November […]

Next Wednesday 8/1/18 we’ll talk to  Connie Kauffman of Empowerment Group. Below is a little about her group. We’ll hear her stories on Wednesday. Empowerment Group (Suncoast Youth Foundation) is a non-profit 501(c)3 that reaches out to working young adults, age 18 to 35, who are struggling financially but lack resources, causing susceptibility to self-harm […]