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WSLR’s Local News airs every Wednesday and Friday at 6pm. We broadcast a Week-in-Review edition on Saturdays at 12pm).  Learn more about our News Team here.

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WSLR News presented the 2024 Public Newsroom Series forums featuring journalists, academics, attorneys, and subject experts. The series sought to  build our local news ecosystem and investigate ways for community members to strengthen our democracy by participating in news production themselves.

 

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This Week in Local Government

On Monday, the Sarasota City Commission will discuss handing over Cross Street in downtown to a commercial developer, and a rezone that would allow Southgate Mall to be turned into a mixed-use project.

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Peace & Justice Report: Black Women in Higher Education

This Wednesday, July 31 at 9am we’ll talk to Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, author of The Chosen We – Black Women’s Empowerment in Higher Education. The book draws on oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.

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