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Episode 309: The Great Florida Cattle Drive will...

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2025/06/26

Listen up, cowgirls and boys! The Great Florida Cattle Drive is returning this January, and WSLR reporter Ramon Lopez has the details.

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4:15

Episode 308: LWV Of Sarasota County stages rally amid...

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2025/06/26

In its first 105 years, the League of Women Voters occasionally used street protest and picketing to press for issues such as the Equal Rights Amendment in the early 1970s. But it has never protested against a whole set of policies by a sitting president or Congress. Now they do, and WSLR News reporter Mason Chambless explains.

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4:49

Episode 307: Manatee County Commission blocks Pat...

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2025/06/26

The Manatee County Commission rejected a 440-home project in suburban Parrish proposed by a division of local development heavyweight Neal Communities. At issue: SimplyDwell wants to build in wetlands that flooded during last year’s storms. Johannes Werner reports.

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3:41

Episode 306: Sarasota School District announces...

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2025/06/26

For the first time, the Sarasota School District is recognizing public schools here are facing a financial crisis. In an email to employees, the superintendent announced a hiring freeze. WSLR reporter Noah Vinsky has the details.

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6:51

Episode 305: A look at the present and future of the...

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2025/06/21

While Sarasotans are hotly debating the future of the Van Wezel and possible construction of a costly new performing arts center, The Bay park around these buildings—real and imagined—is quickly taking shape. WSLR News reporter Gretchen Cochran takes us on a stroll through the future park.

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5:40

Episode 304: Only 4% of services Planned Parenthood...

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2025/06/21

The Trump and DeSantis administrations are defunding Planned Parenthood. The obvious reason: The one-hundred-and-nine year-old organization performs abortions. But abortions make up only 4% of the total services rendered. WSLR News reporter Ishmael Katz talked to the interim CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest Florida about the other 96%.

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3:22

Episode 303: Anti-abortion activists picket a...

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2025/06/21

Every Tuesday and Wednesday, anti-abortion activists are picketing the Planned Parenthood clinic in Sarasota’s Rosemary district. WSLR reporter Kylee Worth asked picketers about why they were there, how they’re going about protesting, and how they feel about these issues.

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3:55

Episode 302: Suncoast Searchlight: The hidden cost of...

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2025/06/21

For tens of thousands of homeowners in Sarasota and Manatee, their annual tax bill includes more assessments to developers and their homeowners association than taxes to local governments. Suncoast Searchlight sheds light on these hidden costs of living in Florida and the rise of private government. Derek Gilliam and Josh Salman investigated, and Josh brings us this report. For the full article, go to suncoastsearchlight.org/power-profit-sarasota-cdd-special-district-debt.

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7:19

Episode 301: Suncoast Searchlight: Dancers flee...

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2025/06/19

Over the past two decades, The Sarasota Ballet has transformed from a little-known regional troupe to an internationally acclaimed draw largely thanks to the effort of Director Iain Webb and his wife, Assistant Director Margaret Barbieri. The couple have made the ballets of British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton the company’s signature. But that winning formula now appears to be faltering. Carrie Seidman reports, via Suncoast Searchlight. To read the full report, go to

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4:04

Episode 300: Protesters show up for immigrants'...

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2025/06/19

The immigrants’ rights protest on Monday was originally planned to be a march across the bridge, from downtown Bradenton to city hall in Palmetto, the town with the biggest share of Hispanic residents in this area. But the protest, featuring some 50 people, ended up being stationary. Organizers blamed the heat. Just ahead of the protest, a dozen police vehicles were spotted at the north end of Green Bridge. Mason Chambless reports.

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6:20

Episode 299: "No Kings" is Sarasota's biggest protest...

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2025/06/19

The No Kings protests prompted record numbers to take to the streets last weekend on the Suncoast. But one of the speakers at the biggest local rally told the crowds that protesting is just a first step. Klaus Obermeit was at the downtown rally.

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5:40

Episode 298: Florida Legislature approves state...

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2025/06/19

Late this Monday, the Florida Legislature approved a budget. It’s now in the hands of the governor, after using his line-item veto power, to approve it. In Sarasota-Manatee, rather than what’s in the budget, the biggest excitement and dismay was about what’s not in it. Johannes Werner has the details.

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2:51

Episode 297: Sarasota gets ready to celebrate...

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2025/06/14

This Thursday, June 19, is Juneteenth. It’s been a federal holiday since 2021, but the organizers of the celebrations in Sarasota moved the party to this weekend. To be precise: Saturday. Johannes Werner has the details.

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5:27

Episode 296: Historical marker, throwback jerseys...

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2025/06/14

During Segregation, the Bradenton Nine Devils played in the Florida Negro League, to little public acclaim. They have had little public recognition since, but now, the team is being honored with a game and a historical marker at the home of the Bradenton Marauders this Saturday. Johannes Werner reports.

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6:39

Episode 295: Voices of Florida president talks...

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2025/06/14

Sarah Parker is the president and one of the organizers behind Voices of Florida, the Sarasota-based political organization that has worked prominently on constitutional petition drives in Florida. She spent the weekend in Los Angeles providing medical help to protesters. Lew Lorrini caught up with her on Tuesday. Parker used the interview with the host of WSLR’s Surreal News to counter the government’s narrative of how the protests came about, and of rioting.

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4:13

Episode 294: Suncoast Searchlight: FHP taps private...

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2025/06/14

Amid a statewide immigration crackdown, Florida Highway Patrol has tapped into a vast private surveillance network. The aim: Search for locations where vehicles of interest are frequently spotted. Suncoast Searchlight obtained search logs, and Kara Newhouse reports. To read the full article, go to suncoastsearchlight.org/florida-fhp-flock-license-plate-immigration-searches.

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5:55

Episode 293: Inside Rise Above's daring and timely...

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2025/06/12

Rise Above, the youth theater group in Sarasota, is taking a risk in the search of love. Tamara Solum went to see their latest musical, The Prom, for herself, and Kylee Worth provided the interviews.

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Episode 292: Manatee School Board begins search for...

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2025/06/12

In a special meeting called on short notice last month, the Manatee County School Board fired Superintendent Jason Wysong on a controversial and tight 3-2 vote. WSLR News reporter Noah Vinsky was at the first school board meeting since that day yesterday.

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Episode 291: Nationwide "No Kings" protests are...

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2025/06/12

The 50501 organizers are at it again this Saturday, Flag Day. This time, the nationwide protests are aiming at the military parade in Washington, and the theme is “No Kings.” Johannes Werner has the details on upcoming protests in Sarasota and Manatee.

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4:39

Episode 290: The Suncoast fights for immigrant rights

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2025/06/12

The ripples from the anti ICE protests in Los Angeles are reaching Florida. A protest in Tampa by local immigrant rights advocates this Monday will be followed by a march across the bridge in Bradenton next Monday. That one will be held together with SEIU, the union whose California leader was arrested during the Los Angeles protests. Mason Chambless has the story.

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