Joining Lew and Bill Stoner who is sitting in for Steve this week will be Jennifer Ahearn-Koch (above), who is running for a seat on the Sarasota County Commission. Co-founder of STOP!, an organization dedicated to bringing the voices of the people back into local development decisions, her candidacy and significant win in the primary, may signal an awakening of a powerful grassroots constituency.
Later, Amit Narang, a regulatory policy advocate for Public Citizen will discuss some of the regulations that have been repealed by current Republican-controlled Congress and White House and what is to come.