Author: Tom Walker

At nine a.m. this Wednesday morning  you’ll have only three more hours to go to givingpartnerchallenge.org to search for WSLR, put in your credit card donation of $25-$100, and have that amount DOUBLED!  This Giving Partner 24-hour opportunity starts Tuesday, May 1 at noon and ends at noon on Wednesday, May 2.   When making your […]

This Wednesday Pat Mahoney, NAMI President and Coleen Thayer, NAMI Executive Director will be in the studio to tell  us about the work of NAMI – the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Sarasota. Since 1984 NAMI has been working in Sarasota County to improve the lives of individuals with mental illness, as well as the […]

Our first guest Wednesday will be Tracey Collins, Assistant Professor of Economics at New College. Professor Collins’s research focus is primarily in the field of Economic Growth and Development. She has researched the role that technology diffusion plays in a country’s pattern of growth and the effect that trade liberalization has on technology diffusion. She […]

This Wednesday 4/11 we’ll have in the studio Ringling College of Art and Design professor Susan Doll who will review several of the films to be shown at the Sarasota Film Festival which starts this Friday. See Sarasotafilmfestival.com. Also in the studio will be SFF Program Operations Director Greg Bortnichak Susan joined Ringling College in […]

Today we had as the main guest Terry Brackett with the Through Women’s Eyes 19th Annual International Film Festival being held April 14 and 15 at Regal Hollywood 11 at 1993 Main Street in Sarasota. These films were directed or produced by women. Click HERE to find out more.

This Wednesday John Severini will explain our progress towards implementing ranked choice voting in Sarasota’s city elections. Go to ‭rankedchoicevoting.org to learn about RCV. ———— Next, ‭Paul Sullivan will share news about the impact of the current wars on our Veterans and families. · Cost of War Project at Brown University · Backlog of VA Disability Claim Appeals […]

This Wednesday, March 21, we’ll have in the studio Brendan Goff,  Assistant Professor of History at New College. Brendan will talk about populism in the US in the 19th and 20th centuries, and bring it into the present where possible. Coincidentally, Brendan is from the part of Allegheny county in Pennsylvania that just voted to elect Conor […]

This Wednesday, March 14, our first guest will be Bill Waddill, the Executive Director of the Sarasota Bay Planning Organization – www.thebaysarasota.org. Check out their website. This is the organization which raised enough money to hire the design group Sasaki to propose, by this July, a plan for the 42 publicly owned acres on the bay centered around the […]

Growing and preparing food is life’s highest priority in Africa’s rural villages. Unfortunately, food is produced in ways that exacerbate the damages already wrought by climate change to the rapidly deteriorating lands south of the Sahara. How do we reform food production to help the villages adapt to climate change and combat the ravages of […]

This coming Wednesday, February 28, at 9:00 a.m. we’ll have in the studio Will Newton, Executive Director of SURE – Sarasota United for Responsibility and Equity – and Steve Scott, community activist for affordable housing and voter rights. We’ll talk about SURE’s goals and upcoming assembly. SURE is an association of nineteen Sarasota churches whose mission […]