General

“There is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead Concert!” Seems as though I have inadvertently scooped Fathom Productions by selecting this date for my Monday, June17th broadcast. I usually make selections several weeks in advance and only found out about the Meetup in the past couple of days: http://kwbe.com/abc_classicr/2019-grateful-dead-meetup-at-the-movies-screening-to-feature-complete-1991-gia nts-stadium-concert-abcid36193223/ Grateful Dead Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, […]

The Florida state legislature recently completed its annual session passing a number of bills and allocating billions of tax payer dollars to myriad projects. Zac Anderson, (above) political editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune whose job it is to chronicle that first draft of history will join Steve and Lew to discuss the changes those actions […]

This week on the Peace & Justice Report we’ll talk in the studio to Gene Jones and Mike Burns from the Florida Veterans for Common Sense. Mike and Gene will discuss the AUMF (Authorization to Use Military Force), their report on climate change, assault weapons, escalating foreign wars, the military budget, veteran health, the defense […]

“There is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead Concert!” Grateful Dead Cal Expo Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA June 10, 1984 Soundboard>MC>C>DAT>CDR Audio discs provided by Paul B Another installment of The Music Never Stopped Project! Disc 1 – Set 1: Feel Like A Stranger They Love Each Other Beat It On Down The Line Dire Wolf My […]

By the end of this month The Supreme Court is due to rule on the constitutionality of a proposed question for the upcoming 2020 Census asking for citizenship status. Opponents say that the purpose of the Census is not count citizens but needs to get an accurate measure of everyone living in a particular area […]

Our first guest this Wednesday will be Greg Cruz from Streets of Paradise who is hosting the fourth annual Stop the Violence cookout this Sunday, June 9 at 11am at Payne Park, 2050 Adams Lane in Sarasota. Streets of Paradise fills a hole in the homeless crisis response network by providing those individuals being re-homed with […]

“There is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead Concert!” Grateful Dead Shoreline Ampitheater, Mountain View, CA June 3, 1995 FOB Schoeps CMC 4 MK 41-> Koch P/S-> Panasonic SV255-> DAT Transfers by Pete Ebel Set 1 – Disc 1: Hell In A Bucket Althea Little Red Rooster Brown-Eyed Women Broken Arrow Stagger Lee Eternity Set 2 […]

I suppose it was only a matter of time before anti-abortion forces mobilized efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade after the Supreme Court was stacked somewhat illegally by Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell with judges who are sympathetic to anti-woman causes. During this past legislative season several states have passed bills restricting abortions almost to […]

“There is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead Concert!” Grateful Dead Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA May 27, 1989 “In Concert Against AIDS” Dan Healy’s Master Soundboard Cassette > CDR CD Mastering by Scott Clugston with Clarence Clemons A short while back, one of my correspondents asked if I had ever featured a Dead concert with […]

In recent weeks, the environment has, as they say, won some and lost some. Joining Steve and Lew in studio will be Chris Bales from the Manatee-Sarasota Sierra Club and Sammi Leigh Scott, vice president of the Preserve Payne Park, to explain why the decision by the City Commission to deny a request to build […]