WSLR News
Saturday, November 15, 2025
DeSantis’s property tax cut plans alarm local officials.
The law limits local governments’ ability to curtail development.
Lennar Homes wants to build up to 2,047 units in one of the fastest growing areas of Manatee County.
Coming up this Sunday: Dawn Kitterman and Mitch Maley also touch on a recent book about the effects of social media on childhood development.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
The day the expanded ‘Schools of Hope’ law becomes effective, two businesses file takeover requests for Brookside Middle and Booker Elementary.
The Climate Adaptation Center event focuses on biodiversity, science and emerging technologies.
Pioneer ‘arbornaut’ Meg Lowman seeks to raise $50,000 for the Myakka Canopy Walkway.
A busload of demonstrators voiced their outrage at the treatment of immigrants.
Tom Walker
Monday, November 10, 2025
On Wednesday, November 12 at 9am, Tom’s guests were Sim Kern and Bryan Ellis. Sim is the author of the new book Genocide Bad – Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation. Please listen in the WSLR archives.
Sunday, November 9, 2025
On Thursday, the Sarasota Legislative Delegation will hold its annual meeting in Venice, ahead of the 2026 session. The Manatee County Planning Commission will discuss Lennar Homes’ plan to build more than 2,000 homes on agricultural land in Parrish.
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