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4 days ago | 
metal.de | Johannes Werner
Soundcheck Mai 2025# 11
Ist es müßig, sich auf dem nunmehr fünften Album von GHOST BATH immer noch über platt glorifizierte Selbsttötungsabsicht und die suggerierte Coolness von Depression zu echauffieren?
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5 days ago | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner
Rural areas would be hit especially hard, advocacy group says. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: May 9, 2025Host: The U.S. Congress is currently discussing shrinking enrollment for Medicaid, the program that covers healthcare for at least 72 million low-income people. If cuts happen, this will have ripple effects not just for patients all the way to Sarasota. It will affect local economies, particularly in rural areas.
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1 week ago | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner
Commissioners plan to double the price of a rideshare service, but make a well-traveled bus route fare-free. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: May 7, 2025Host: The Sarasota County Commission is sending mixed messages about transit. Many transit authorities in the United States, including in neighboring Manatee County, are offering free rides to boost passenger numbers.
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1 week ago | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner
5,000 new homes may be added during worst real estate slump since at least 2008. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: May 7, 2025Host: In a second round, the company behind the Lakewood Ranch Southeast mega-development got their way. On Tuesday, the county commission allowed the developer to turn agricultural land into yet another suburb.
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1 week ago | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner
Climatologist’s bottom line: Lower risk with a ‘better located’ performing arts center. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: May 2, 2025Host: The City of Sarasota’s Purple Ribbon Committee has been charged with making recommendations about what to do with the city-owned Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.
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2 weeks ago | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner
City surplus land inventory played key role in this affordable-housing solution. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: April 30, 2025Host: It will barely make a dent in Sarasota’s affordable housing crisis, even in the list of veterans still waiting for housing. But more projects like this could make a difference. On Wednesday morning, a veterans’ housing complex offering 10 affordable apartments officially opened in Newtown—the first of its kind in Sarasota County.
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2 weeks ago | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner |Tom Walker
At least nine demonstrations take place in and around Sarasota on May 1 and May 3. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: April 30, 2025Host: In the United States, May Day is usually eclipsed by Labor Day when it comes to rallies. But this year, there is a flurry of activity in this area on May 1, and the following Saturday, May 3. That’s thanks to the 50501 movement organizing protests nationwide against what they see as executive overreach by the Trump administration.
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2 weeks ago | 
metal.de | Johannes Werner
Über die Vergangenheit des Gitarrenvirtuosen Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger kann an anderer Stelle zur Genüge gelesen werden, so auch zusammengefasst in unserer 10-Punkte-Review zum Debüt seines neuen Projektes CHANGELING.
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2 weeks ago | 
metal.de | Johannes Werner
Zu den aktuell spannendsten Bands im deutschen Black Metal zählen die Kölner SUMERIAN TOMBS, weil sie klassisches Skandinavien-Feeling mit frischen Ideen und einer packenden Atmosphäre kombinieren. Zudem ist der inzwischen auf Quartettgröße geschrumpfte Haufen Untoter auch einer der angenehmsten Meuten, die man im aktuellen Szenebetrieb so antreffen kann.
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2 weeks ago | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner |Tom Walker
Sarasota County Commission not only approves a proposal that mainly benefits a Neal Communities project but also scrap county’s own road plans. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: April 25, 2025Host: After some recent pushback against developers by the Sarasota County Commission, it looked like “back to normal” on Wednesday.
