Author: Tom Walker

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 […]

This Wednesday our first guest will be Ron Turner, Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections. Ron will talk about the upcoming August 28 primary,  early voting locations and much more. His official website is sarasotavotes.com. Fact about the  August primary election: Right now there are 312,578 registered voters in Sarasota County.  If you would like to register […]

This Wednesday, July 18 from 9-10 a.m., the Peace & Justice Report will have in the studio candidate for governor Andrew Gillum and also school board candidate Nick Guy. Andrew Gillum is the current mayor of Tallahassee. Andrew  is running for Governor “to rebuild Florida into a state that works for all of us. He knows […]

This Wednesday, July 4, we’ll interview Ray Seaman, Online Director of Progress Florida. He  just launched the People First Report Card – www.floridareportcard.com. It gives every Florida legislator a grade based on key votes about the economy, our public schools, our environment, our civil rights, reproductive freedom, gun safety and more. They also send out […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to Bill Newton, Deputy Director of the Florida Consumer Action Network about the opioid crisis. “According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, “overdose deaths, particularly from prescription drugs and heroin, have reached epidemic levels.”[3]:iii Nearly half of all opioid overdose deaths in 2016 involved prescription opioids.[1] From 1999 to 2008, overdose […]

From Common Dreams: A national veterans’ organization is weighing in on this year’s Emmy awards with a full-page ad in Variety, saying Ken Burns and Lynne Novick’s “Vietnam War” series does not deserve a “Best Documentary” award. Veterans For Peace (VFP), headquartered in St. Louis, with 175 chapters in the U.S. and six overseas, will […]