-
1 week ago | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner |Tom Walker
The bond market expert says municipalities will be more on their own, predicts tax and service fee hikes. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: April 16, 2025Host: Hard times are likely ahead for the ability to borrow for the City of Sarasota, Manatee County and all the other municipalities on the Suncoast. That’s a prediction by bond expert David Kotok.
-
1 month ago | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner |Tom Walker
Pro-immigrant protesters will rally outside. Meanwhile, students feel their voices are going unheard. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: March 19, 2025Host: Tomorrow morning, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Homan will appear on New College’s “Socratic Stage”. He will do so together with Chad Wolf, acting Homeland Security Secretary during the first Trump term, and with Governor Ron DeSantis. The three hardliners will discuss immigration.
-
2 months ago | 
wslr.org | Tom Walker |Sasha Abramsky
This Wednesday, February 19, at 9am, we’ll talk to Sasha Abramsky, author of Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far Right Takeover of Small Town America.
-
2 months ago | 
wslr.org | Marianne Barisonek |Tom Walker |Jesse Coleman
Raising girls has never been easy but in the age of social media it’s even harder. According to a 2024 study by the CDC over half of teen girls feel “persistently sad or hopeless.”In this episode of The Progressive Page Turner I talk with Jo-Ann Finkelstein about her book Sexism & Sensibility. She has over twenty years experience helping girls face toxic messages about beauty, sex and femininity and offers advice for parents trying to raise confident girls in a culture that often demeans them.
-
Jan 16, 2025 | 
wslr.org | Marianne Barisonek |Jesse Coleman |Tom Walker
After Roe was overturned the abortion ban in Texas included a bounty hunter clause that would allow vigilantes to enforce the law. This is the sort of alliance between private citizens and the state that allowed the reign of terror by the KKK to flourish. But blue states are not entirely without weapons in this war for the soul of our democracy. In this episode I talk with David Noll, author of Vigilante Nation.
-
Jan 16, 2025 | 
wslr.org | Jesse Coleman |Tom Walker |Marianne Barisonek
JANUARY 20, 2025 6:00 PM at FogartyvilleZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88382328237?pwd=ZFAwdWJWYStFais1bVpkeHVONGN4Zz09Meeting ID: 883 8232 8237Passcode: 945232—One tap mobile+13052241968,,88382328237#,,,,*945232# US+16465588656,,88382328237#,,,,*945232# US (New York)ITEMS TO ACCOMPLISH THIS MEETING:Please note that we are using a “Consent Agenda” to address our routine business. This will be moved and voted on as one motion.
-
Jan 9, 2025 | 
wslr.org | Tom Walker
New Logo Developed and Rejected by City of Sarasota CommissionersJohannes WernerOriginal Air Date: Jan. 8, 2024Host: The city of Sarasota commissioners and staffers spent a good chunk of 2024 – and upwards of $25,000 – trying to figure out a new logo. But the city manager who set this in motion retired last fall, and one sitting commissioner was voted out in November.
-
Jan 9, 2025 | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner |Tom Walker
More Roundabouts in Wishlist Planned This Year For North Trail and Fruitville Road. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: Jan. 8, 2024Host: The streetscape along US 41 north of downtown Sarasota has changed, and the Fruitville Road, 10th and 14th Street roundabouts have made a big difference, turning circular traffic foes into fans, and in some cases pedestrians or bicyclists. So what’s keeping the remaining three roundabouts along the North Trail from being built?
-
Jan 9, 2025 | 
wslr.org | Johannes Werner |Tom Walker |Marianne Barisonek
Pedicini and Van Ostenbridge Sue Animation Creators and The Bradenton Times. By Johannes WernerOriginal Air Date: Jan. 8, 2024Host: The Kevin Van Ostenbridge era in the Manatee County Commission is over. Not only is he not the chair of the commission anymore, but he lost the Republican primaries against another incumbent, George Kruse. Kruse now holds the gavel, and hepresented his priorities at a special meeting on Tuesday. But before we get to Kruse’s priorities, there’s another piece of news.
-
Jan 9, 2025 | 
wslr.org | Ramon Lopez |Ramón López |Tom Walker
Developer Pat Neal Planning for Development of Two Massive Commercial Buildings in Venice. By Ramon LopezOriginal Air Date: Jan. 8, 2024Host: Developer Pat Neal’s plans for a controversial commercial development in Venice changed election outcomes in this still-quaint but fast-growing city. Yesterday, Neal’s project got a step closer to groundbreaking. But he still expects pushback, as Neal told WSLR News reporter Ramon Lopez.
