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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.

On Wednesday at 9 am, Tom interviewed author David Kotok about his new book ‘The Fed and the Flu – Parsing Pandemic Economic Shocks’. Check it out in the WSLR archives!

Last Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 9 am, Tom and Bob talked to Chuck Collins, author of ‘Burned by Billionaires – How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet’.  Missed it? Find it in the archives!

On Oct. 1 at 9 Tom spent the hour with Allan Mestel. Please listen in our archive. Allan is a local photographer and activist whose photos of Ukraine will be exhibited at Fogartyville starting Oct. 13.

This Wednesday, September 17 at 9am, Tom will talk to professor Philip Travis, an Associate Professor of History at State College of Florida, about the history behind the current loss of public trust in government and how this fueled the rise of the Trump era.