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Episode 130: Sarasota to Receive an Additional $200...

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2025/01/11

On the heels of a storm season of historic proportions, the federal government is now pumping more than $210 million into Sarasota County. That comes after a previous $200 million-plus in HUD block grants for a hurricane two years ago that are barely beginning to flow into the county. These monies flow in part into the depleted bank accounts of uninsured property owners, to cover repairs. At a press conference on Thursday, Sarasota County staffers provided some details about how the new

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3:11

Episode 129: Newtown's Celebration of Martin Luther...

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2025/01/09

WSLR News reporter Ishmael Katz talked to one of the main organizers of the Martin Luther King Day celebrations, which will be upon us on and around January 20.

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3:18

Episode 128: Attempt to change City of Sarasota logo...

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2025/01/09

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. Now, at a commission meeting on Monday, the effort ended in a non-decision: Unanimously, the five commissioners voted to keep the existing logo, featuring the golden silhouette of naked David.

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3:39

Episode 127: Why new roundabouts for Sarasota are...

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2025/01/09

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?

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8:16

Episode 126: Controversial Neal development in Venice...

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2025/01/09

Developer Pat Neal's plans for a controversial plans to build a shopping mall in wetlands 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.

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5:57

Episode 125: New Manatee County chair sets different...

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2025/01/09

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 he presented his priorities at a special meeting on Tuesday. But before we get to Kruse's priorities, there's another piece of news.

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5:48

Episode 124: DoD Analyst Talks Trump and War

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2025/01/04

When should the U.S. government engage in warfare? Michael O'Hanlon says it usually happens too quickly and with too much optimism. Some listen to his cautious takes — in addition to being a member of the Defense Policy Board at the U.S. Department of Defense, he is an analyst at the Brookings Institution, the Washington-based think tank. He will be speaking at a Sarasota World Affairs Council event next Thursday, January 9.

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5:00

Episode 123: SEE Alliance Presents Legislative...

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2025/01/04

The SEE Alliance is an unusual group in Sarasota. For one, it’s run by young people. It’s also shown its mettle by playing key roles in changing outcomes at the Sarasota School Board, and in defeating a state-initiated constitutional amendment that would have made school board races partisan. Recently, the group pitched its big-picture policy ideas to Sarasota state legislators.

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6:20

Episode 122: Despite Flooding Concerns, Planning...

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2025/01/04

Pretty much everybody these days professes to be concerned about the disappearance of farming, and about flooding. So how is it that one large-scale suburban-sprawl project after another still gets approved? Here's Exhibit 1: Two years ago, the Sarasota County Commission granted the developer of Lakewood Ranch a change to the comprehensive plan, allowing it to build thousands of homes on pastureland, at higher density than the plan permits. Now, like a tsunami in slow motion, the Southeast

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5:43

Episode 121: Sarasota Station Gets Partial Sign-Off

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2025/01/04

Planning for the Sarasota Station workforce housing project began two decades ago, when financial entrepreneur Harvey Vengroff was still alive. Now, his son Mark is carrying the torch. His affordable-housing development outfit has been more active lately in Manatee County, but now Mark Vengroff has just taken the Sarasota Station project closer to groundbreaking.

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14:26

Episode 120: Building community and government around...

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2025/01/02

John Lambie has been in and around water on the Florida Suncoast all his life. The co-creator of Florida House - that's the educational institution that was an entry point to thinking and planning around sustainability for two generations of Sarasotans - remembers spearfishing in Sarasota Bay off Siesta Key when the water was pristine and marine life aplenty. He knows the ins and outs of the Myakka River and Manatee River. So it's no surprise Lambie argues that communities should build

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7:03

Episode 119: Repeated '100-year' rainfalls challenge...

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2025/01/02

The hurricanes this season have produced big challenges and laid bare deficiencies of local stormwater management systems. Ramon Lopez interviewed an engineer with a big-picture view. Steve Suau will play a key role in an upcoming Sarasota County Commission meeting dealing with the fallout of the past storm season's inland flooding.

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Episode 118: 'If Flipper is OK, everything is OK'....

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2025/01/02

Dolphins are the top predator in the Sarasota Bay and Gulf shore ecosystem. Which means — as one local environmentalist put it — if Flipper is OK, everything is OK. We talked to Dr. Randall Wells to find out. Wells began studying bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay as a high school volunteer at Mote Marine Laboratory in 1970. Today, he directs the Sarasota dolphin Research Program, which conducts the world's longest running study of a wild dolphin population.

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5:03

Episode 117: How climate change affects water...

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2025/01/02

How does a warming climate change the balance of water? Noah Vinsky talked to Dave Tomasko. The biologist and retiring director of the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program has been quite vocal on this topic recently, and he won't disappoint you.

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4:53

Episode 116: Anti-Terror Law May Target Local Media

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2024/12/28

A new anti-terror law winding its way through U.S. Congress has non-profit news organizations in this area worried. Noah Vinsky tells us why.

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6:21

Episode 115: Guest on The Detail Talks Legacy Trail...

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2024/12/28

Many of us have biked or otherwise used the Legacy Trail. But we are just vaguely aware of the expansion plans for the trail, and probably not aware of the big plans to connect with other existing trails south and north of here. Think along the lines of biking all the way from Naples to Tarpon Springs without having to look over your shoulder for any cars. Charles Hines is an attorney and former Sarasota County Commissioner, and he is now spearheading the project. Hines works for the Trust

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7:48

Episode 114: Colson Hotel Saved

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2024/12/28

The Colson Hotel is a landmark at the heart of what used to be the center of African American life in town. In what looks like a pre-holiday gift to Sarasota, a wealthy investor linked up with local non-profits to save the 1920s structure from the wrecking ball, and last week came to an agreement with the developer. Ramon Lopez talked to one of the people behind the deal, to get a better understanding of a complex arrangement.

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Episode 113: Florida Teamsters Picket Amazon

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2024/12/21

Amazon workers have tried to unionize for years, but the world's biggest retailer has fought their efforts tooth and nail. This summer, the Amazon workers who are organized through the Amazon Labor Union voted to affiliate with the Teamsters. And now, the Teamsters are sending a first warning shot to the $2 trillion corporation, in the shape of a 48-hour warning strike at 24 facilities that held a union vote, after Amazon last Sunday failed to respond to a deadline to sit down and bargain

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Episode 112: Annual Contest Aims to Inspire Youth to...

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2024/12/21

Young voters have been elusive, but lately school board politics, constitutional amendment drives, and overall concern about the future and climate change have driven teenagers and twenty-somethings into politics and to the polls. The Sarasota chapter of the League of Women Voters is trying to amplify this by way of an annual contest.

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Episode 111: New Study Shows Benefits of Investing in...

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2024/12/21

As the value of college education is increasingly questioned, a new report reveals how increasing post-secondary education rates could grow the Florida economy by billions of dollars. The study by Helios Education Foundation — a non-profit with offices in Arizona and Florida — also shows how expanding college access could transform individual lives and communities throughout the state. Dayana Melendez spoke with Dr. Paul Perrault, a Senior Vice President at Helios.

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