Author: Tom Walker

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 […]

This Wednesday, June 13, we’ll have in the studio Luz Corcuera, Executive Director of UnidosNow. She’ll bring a student along who has taken part in their programs. On the second half of our show we’ll talk to Vietnam veteran and former medic Geoff Morris of the Florida Veterans for Common Sense about the nature of […]

Valerie Buchand is a native of the historic Sarasota Newtown community,  After running her own lawn care service, she began in 2009 to serve on the Sarasota Housing Authority Board.  She’s an advocate for low-income housing and a  community activist. In 2014, along with other concerned citizens, she started  the Newtown Nation organization.   Newtown Naton actions Back to […]

Wednesday we’ll interview Lynn Nilsson about the new Sarasota solar co-op. New solar co-op launches in Sarasota By Ben Delman on May 23, 2018 Neighbors in Sarasota County have formed a solar co-op to save money and make going solar easier, while building a network of solar supporters The group is seeking members and will […]

This Wednesday at 9 a.m. our guest in the studio will be Shirley Brown, one of the five members of the School Board of Sarasota County. We’ll talk about school security and charter schools. For more information about education issues in Sarasota and Manatee counties, go to Protect Our Public Schools Manasota (POPS). There is […]

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 […]