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Our first guests this coming Wednesday, November 20, at 9am will be our old friend Andy Worthington talking about why we should close Guantanamo. It has been open for more than 6,520 days! Another friend of the show concerned about Guantanamo is Debra Sweet. Her website is World Can’t Wait. Our second guest will be […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk about cash bail, and our guest will be Public Defender Larry Eger. Larry is the Public Defender for the 12th Judicial Circuit which includes Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties. When I toured the Sarasota county jail recently, I was told that seventy-five percent of the people in jail were awaiting trial. […]

“It is said that, if you lined up all those who have ever been to a Grateful Dead concert head-to-toe, the line would stretch around the moon, and about halfway back. And nobody would complain!” Grateful Dead Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, N.J. November 11, 1985 Matrix: AUD (shnid=19303): Schoeps CMC441 (FOB, 90deg, 17cm) > Oade […]

At the beginning of his term, Governor Ron DeSantis, made some noises that sounded like he may reverse the anti-public school and teacher policies of the Florida legislature, but, alas, it was only incoherent babble. Fedrick Ingram (above) President of the Florida Education Association (FEA), the largest public teacher’s union in the state will join […]

With Ishmael Katz Join me Thursday, Nov. 7 from 2-4 pm as I explore the sound of the female voice. I’ll be playing the women whose voices I would listen to if the only music I could listen to for the rest of my life would be these singers. See how it compares with your […]

Wednesday morning at 9am we had as our guest the amazing activist Adrien Lucas. We discussed both the upcoming decisions for the land adjacent to the Celery Fields and also the ongoing attempt by county commissioners to change the boundaries of the Sarasota County Commission districts. Listen to it on the archives! Good information about […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to Jenni Casale, a founding member of Action Together Suncoast, one of the many Indivisible groups in our area. But she’s also the author of the popular blog Democracy Alive, a fact-based discussion of current and controversial issues. We’ll talk about her writing and the concerns all of us have for […]

Foreign policy has never been this improbable and needing explanation. Who better to dissect the events of the day and offer predications of the long term effects of those situations than Mel Goodman (above), former CIA analyst, author, and educator. With impeachable offenses being committed in Ukraine and the shameless abandonment of the Kurds to […]