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Locking people away for long periods of time seems like a tough but effective way to deal with crime but multiple studies have shown that states with draconian sentences have the same amount of crime as states with more lenient laws. Imprisoning just one person costs tens of thousands of dollars per year and there’s […]

This Wednesday morning we’ll first talk to Florida Studio Theatre actress Rachel Moulton about the play The Cancellation of Lauren Fein. Then we’ll learn about Servas, which offers free homestays all over the world.

In the late 1970’s and early 80’s the New Deal era where the government regulated businesses and protected citizens from the excesses of capitalism was overturned by Neoliberalism the idea that the market, left to its own devices, would produce an optimal economic system. Neoliberalism was wildly successful at producing billionaires. Their incredible wealth, disproportionate […]

WSLR BOARD MEETING – FEBRUARY 24, 2025 5:15 PM  Location: Hybrid Meeting at WSLR Music Library Meeting Space ZOOM LINK:   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81836401983?pwd=DQgcsP8Z9VHcIYlKQN2beZ0ob4NkXD.1 Meeting ID: 818 3640 1983 Passcode: 854530 One tap mobile +13052241968,,81836401983#,,,,*854530# US Mission Statement: WSLR + Fogartyville is a center for creative expression and community engagement that amplifies the voices of our diverse […]

This Wednesday, February 19, at 9am, we’ll talk to Sasha Abramsky, author of Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far Right Takeover of Small Town America. We’ll also talk to Carol Lerner of Support Our Schools!

In his book Should We Go Extinct Todd May takes an objective look at what we add to the community of life on the planet and what we destroy. This isn’t a call to end humanity as much as it’s a call to be better humans and citizens of Earth. You can hear the program […]

This Wednesday, February 5 at 9am, you’ll hear a great interview with Jean Faulk, a teacher of history and journalism at Bayshore High School in Bradenton. Then we’ll chat with Scott Osborne, President of Through Women’s Eyes, about the TWE Film Festival coming up March 7.

Raising girls has never been easy but in the age of social media it’s even harder. According to a 2024 study by the CDC over half of teen girls feel “persistently sad or hopeless.” In this episode of The Progressive Page Turner I talk with Jo-Ann Finkelstein about her book Sexism & Sensibility. She has […]

This Wednesday, January 22 at 9am, we’ll hear State College of Florida Professor Philip Travis talk about when a country with no military ended two wars: Costa Rica and the Treaty of Esquipulas. His discussion will be based on an interview that he conducted a few years ago with the President of Costa Rica and […]

After Roe was overturned the abortion ban in Texas included a bounty hunter clause that would allow vigilantes to enforce the law. This is the sort of alliance between private citizens and the state that allowed the reign of terror by the KKK to flourish. But blue states are not entirely without weapons in this […]