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This Wednesday at 9am Tom will talk to Florida Veterans for Common Sense President Gene Jones. We’ll talk about their upcoming Tom Paine Party honoring professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat. On the second half of the program I’ll talk to Holly Elmore of Earth Impact.

The 864 voting members of local collective giving organization Impact100 SRQ on Jan. 20 awarded one of eight $108K transformational grants to WSLR+Fogartyville during its Annual Celebration and Awards Ceremony at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium at the Bay. The winning Built for Belonging plan calls for upgrades to convert Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center, […]

This Wednesday, January 21 at 9am, Tom will interview author Nell Bernstein, author of ‘In Our Future We Are Free – the Dismantling of the Youth Prison’. 

This Wednesday January 7 at 9am, Tom will interview returning diplomat Miles Tudor, then Cathy Bryant, the CEO of Streets of Paradise.

Already threatened cypress swamps in Manatee County could shrink even more.

State and local programs offer help. The Florida Farm Bureau-supported ‘Mind Your Melon’ is one of them.

This Wednesday, Dec. 9, Tom will talk to Julie Morris about a Florida law that restricts local planning after a hurricane. Then we’ll hear from Carol Lerner about for-profit charter operators in public schools.

This Wednesday, November 26, Tom will talk to Miles Toder, a local activist and retired Senior US Foreign Service Officer, political economist and urban planner. They”ll talk about accountability and good governance, and the changes Miles has seen in Sarasota over the years.

Rich and connected, Jeffrey Epstein trafficked girls with impunity. We’ve all seen those stickers for anti-trafficking organization in airports and bus stations and it’s normal to assume they are there to help people caught in the same sort of situation. In their book Not Your Rescue Project Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam detail how the […]

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.