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MidPoint

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Your mid-week, mid-morning source for local and statewide news and public affairs from a local perspective.

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MidPoint for 03/06/2024

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2024/03/06

Your mid-week, mid-morning source for local and statewide news and public affairs from a local perspective.

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Florida's Social Media Ban Makes Strange Bedfellows

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2024/02/28

Out, queer Democratic Rep. Michele Rayner joined Republican House Speaker Paul Renner to support a ban on social media access for kids under 16 years old. Now, she and her peers, like Tsi Day Smyth of Voices of SW Florida, a Black & queer-led advocacy group dedicated to human rights and reproductive freedom, are at odds.

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MidPoint for 02/21/2024

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2024/02/21

Your mid-week, mid-morning source for local and statewide news and public affairs from a local perspective.

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MidPoint: Homeless Camps and Other Legislative Plans

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2024/02/14

We continue our review of 2024 legislative proposals with today's focus on efforts at criminalizing "sleeping in public" and establishing homeless tent camps around the state, and the problems of private equity firms buying up so many starter homes in foreclosure and charging exorbitant rents.

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MidPoint: "Don't Count Florida Out!" says House...

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2024/02/07

FL House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell & newly elected Democratic Rep. Tom Keen join MidPoint to discuss state politics and elections.

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MidPoint for 01/31/2024

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2024/01/31

Your mid-week, mid-morning source for local and statewide news and public affairs from a local perspective.

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MidPoint: We Share the Same Sky

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2024/01/24

Rachael Cerrotti joins us to discuss her decade-long project to memorialize the refugee journey of her grandmother, a Czech Holocaust survivor. Her project is a memoir, a podcast, a book and currently an exhibit at the Florida Holocaust Museum. This show commemorates Internat'l Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1945.

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Abortion On The Ballot?

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2024/01/17

A panel of Attorneys and Organizers from Floridians Protecting Freedom, the coalition of advocacy groups promoting the abortion rights FL Constitutional Amendment, are with us to discuss the referendum's path through collecting petition signatures to the Florida Supreme Court to our ballots.

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MidPoint for 01/10/2024

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2024/01/10

Your mid-week, mid-morning source for local and statewide news and public affairs from a local perspective.

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Money in Politics, Disqualifying Trump, Jan. 6th and...

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2024/01/03

Guest host Matt Newton talks with Stetson Constitutional Law Prof. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy and Tampa Councilman Luis Viera about the many constitutional legal issues on our radar today.

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Health & Fitness Resolutions for the New Year

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2023/12/27

We're talking about our personal health and fitness goals for the New Year with Wendy Wesley, a St. Petersburg-based nutritionist, Registered Dietitian, and food educator, and Shanequa Clarke, a Tampa-based fitness trainer with a Master's degree in Exercise Science who specializes in strength training and conditioning.

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MidPoint for 12/20/2023

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2023/12/20

Your mid-week, mid-morning source for local and statewide news and public affairs from a local perspective.

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Our Favorite Books of 2023

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2023/12/13

What were our favorite books of 2023 from Tombolo Books and our MidPoint listeners.

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The Epidemic of Loneliness

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2023/12/06

There is an epidemic of loneliness in our society that is causing significant health problems for individuals. We explore what to do increase social connections with the USF College of Public Health Activist Lab.

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MidPoint for 11/29/2023

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2023/11/29

Your mid-week, mid-morning source for local and statewide news and public affairs from a local perspective.

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MidPoint for 11/22/2023

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2023/11/22

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Responding to Food Insecurity in Florida with Gulf...

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2023/11/15

It's Thanksgiving time and our thoughts turn to food and those who may not have it. Our friends from Gulf Coast JFCS joined us to discuss the many ways their programs address food insecurity in the different communities of Florida, from resettling refugees to elderly Holocaust survivors and providing emergency food support to families in crisis.

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Anti-Gun Violence with Survivors and Advocates

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2023/11/08

Anti-gun violence survivors and advocates discuss the pervasiveness of gun violence, what is the current state of the laws, and what we can hope to do to curb the tragedies experienced by gun violence survivors.

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MidPoint for 11/01/2023

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2023/11/01

Your mid-week, mid-morning source for local and statewide news and public affairs from a local perspective.

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Medicare Enrollment Period is Now Open. What to Do?

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2023/10/25

Learn what to consider in making your Medicare healthcare enrollment decision for 2023 with our experts from Florida SHINE.

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