Programming

This coming Wednesday, 4/15 on Peace & Justice at 9am, my guests will be Arlene Sweeting and Dave Beaton, the founders of WSLR and Fogartyville! Listen for the full hour and learn about our history.

What if we have it all wrong? We accept unemployment, inflation, low wages, lack of access to healthcare and education, periodic recessions, ecological collapse, food insecurity and endless wars as inevitable. The underlying belief in a market driven system is the bedrock of our economy. We’ve handed our lives and resources over to a mechanism […]

Tomorrow morning, April 1 at 9am, Tom will talk to Miles Toder about the Sister Cities Association of Sarasota. One upcoming event is “Bridges Across the Seas – A Global Learning Celebration” on April 27 at 3pm at Selby Library in downtown Sarasota.

The cost to our nation from militarized borders goes beyond the cost of enforcement. Both legal and undocumented migrants pay into our tax system. They boost the economy by spending money on the basics like food and rent. Many of our skilled workers in tech and medicine are immigrants. They also are the backbone of […]

Public invited to attend the meeting at 5:30 p.m.; agenda and board materials available online.

This Wednesday, Tom will talk to Katie Sanders, Editor-in-Chief of the fact the fact-checking website PolitiFact. Then he’ll talk to two Libertarians, Mark Edgington and Angela McArdle, about prison reform.

When the Heritage Foundation published Project 2025 two years ago, the goals seemed so radical that many dismissed the threat as far-fetched. But as the Trump presidency steamrolls over accepted norms, court orders and public opinion, much of that radical agenda is being implemented.

On Wednesday, March 4, at 9am, Tom spent the hour talking to Scott Osborne about the Through Women’s Eyes film festival starting March 5.

For the first time in over a hundred years salmon are returning to historical spawning grounds in the Klamath River. After four hydroelectric dams were removed the river came back to life. Wild salmon, once on the brink of extinction have returned in astonishing numbers. More than just a regional victory, the dam removal from […]

Tom’s guest Wednesday was Nathan J. Robinson. Nathan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Current Affairs, “A Magazine of Politics and Culture.” He will be the featured speaker at our Rooted in Community celebration this February 28. You can hear our interview in the WSLR archives!


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