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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 […]

“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 Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE October 21, 1973 SBD > Rm > ? -> Dat > Sound Forge […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk in the studio to Bruce Rodgers, Executive Director of the Hermitage Artist Retreat. The Hermitage hosts artists on their Gulf-front Manasota Key campus for “escape-to-create” residencies. Some come to explore and experiment, some are on deadline or working on a commission. The idea is that artists require focused time to produce quality […]

The people spoke loud and clear in the 2018 election when about 65 percent of the Florida electorate instructed the government to reinstate voting rights to about 1.5 million Floridians who had committed a felony and completed their sentences. Amendment 4, as it was named on the ballot, was necessary to correct the egregious injustice […]

This Wednesday, October 16 at 9am we’ll talk to Billy Cox, a reporter for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and a union member. We’ll talk about how our daily newspapers are under siege by their corporate owners which continue to lay off or not replace news gatherers across the country. A proposed merger between Sarasota Herald-Tribune owner […]