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WSLR News — 100 episodes
Episode 476: WSLR News Thu., Oct. 22: Gruters vs Kirschner fundraising; Ashley Moody on Flock cameras; Julie London; Sarasota Charter Review Board candidates; faith vs. zoning
Episode 475: WSLR News Tue, Oct. 20: Florida Attorney General; Nixon and Sanders whirlwind tour; Jim DeNiro; Dengue
Episode 474: WSLR News Oct. 15: Erika Donalds; Steube vs Montavon; Gaza hostage ripples; 2D animation returns
Episode 473: WSLR News Thu., Oct. 8: Built for Belonging fund drive; Hi Hat Ranch; Ziegler and school libraries; Sarah Towle and immigrant advocates
Episode 472: WSLR News Thu., Oct. 1: State targets Pine View history teacher; Haiti TPS; District 16 still 'in play'; Banned Book Week
Episode 471: WSLR News Thu., Sep. 24: Lakewood Ranch Southeast; Manasota Beach Road; Congressional candidate debate; Newtown development
Episode 470: WSLR News Tue., Sep. 22: Sarasota student enrollment drop; Uthmeier wants Sarasota Schools to fire a teacher; city park zoning; lowriders
Episode 469: WSLR News Thu., Sep. 17: Embattled librarians; SeaSpray; party line crossers; reactions to radio documentary
Episode 468: WSLR News Tue., Sep. 15: African American Cultural Center; Manasota Beach Road; bear hunt; Suncoast Women of Action; Comicon
Episode 467: WSLR News Thu., Sep. 10: Palmer Ranch East; Newtown brownfield project; People's Radio documentary; Comicon
Episode 466: WSLR News Tue., Sep. 8: 9-11 and Newtown; North Port data center rebellion; Gulf Gate golf course; The Bay park rocks; youth movement
Episode 465: WSLR News Thu., Sep. 3: Angie Nixon; Ziegler investigation; concrete crushing lawsuit
Episode 464: WSLR News Tue., Sep. 1: Parking; Kyle Rittenhouse; Newtown Nation
Episode 463: WSLR News Thu., Aug. 27: Hope Florida; Lakewood Ranch Southeast; vote by mail; flood resilience projects
Episode 462: WSLR News Tue., Aug. 25: Sarasota goes for Vindman; the shifting Sarasota School Board; Sarasota Dem chair comments; non-profit's PAC actions trigger IRS complaint; homelessness set to rise again
Episode 461: WSLR News, Thu., Aug 20: DeNiro; Villa Ballada; immigrant dragnet; Glover; Montavon
Episode 460: WSLR News Tue., Aug 18: Election night special edition. Obsidian lawsuit; city candidate eligibility near-fail; Livel Local Act project; candidate anti-PAC press conference; polling station mood
Episode 459: WSLR News Fri., Aug. 14: Florida Panthers; Neunder's cease-and-desist; profile Pearson; Indian Beach Park
Episode 458: WSLR News Wed., Aug. 12: Candidate residency doubts; Congressional candidate forum; Tamika Lyles profile; Manatee County finances
Episode 457: WSLR News Fri., Aug. 7: Laurel Meadows, New Booker High Coach, Where Are County Dems?, City Wastewater, and Sydney Gruters
Episode 456: WSLR News Wed., Aug. 3: HOA pilot project; Sarasota parking; concrete crushing; Manatee County budget increases
Episode 455: WSLR News Fri., July 31: Sydney Gruters vs Eddie Speir; Hi Hat Ranch; historic preservation; Breakfast House move; YouthThrives
Episode 454: WSLR News Wed., July 29: Booker High football; Bay Park rezone; Aug. 18 primaries; City of Sarasota PAC politics; New College Alumni Association
Episode 453: WSLR News Fri., July 24: Florida DOGE; Gracewater Midtown; Live Local lawsuit; US Garage; Rob Rominiecki
Episode 452: WSLR News Wed., July 22: North Port data centers; Live Local lawsuit; Sarasota School Board meeting times; water treatment plant; Brad Baker
Episode 451: WSLR News Fri., July 17: Gunshot patients; end of TPS for Haitians; undocumented student ban; Sarasota Motor Club; Desmond Meade
Episode 450: WSLR News Wed., July 15: State pre-emption; school meals; PACs; Done with Gun; Kelly Kirschner
Episode 449: WSLR News Fri., July 10: CD 16 'in play' for Dems; profile Eddie Pope; Maley's Fish Kill; WW2 Jeep
Episode 448: WSLR News Wed., July 8: Sarasota slams brakes on data centers; rural stormwater fees; dropping school enrollment; Eddie Speir
Episode 447: WSLR News Fri., July 3: Airbnb and Byron Donalds; employees take over roofing business; Treatment First ripples; oyster bed restoration; turtle recovery
Episode 446: WSLR News Wed., July 1: Canadian at Alcatraz; New College budget; Yevgheni Khodorkovsky
Episode 445: WSLR News Fri., June 26: Canadian at Alcatraz; The Real KVO; concrete crushing; stormwater system update
Episode 444: WSLR News Wed., June 24: Protect Siesta Key endorsement; Julie London; administrative review; Bridget Ziegler; laughter yoga
Episode 443: WSLR News Fri., June 19: Hospital board elections; moratorium petition; Sarasota County Commission candidates; Juneteenth
Episode 442: WSLR News, Wed. June 17: DeSantis signs Gruters' insurance bill; 1899 Fruitville; Angie Nixon; Newtown candidate forum; Jim DeNiro
Episode 441: WSLR News Fri., June 12: Last-minute candidates; data center water use; USF shutdown ripples; Juneteenth
Episode 440: WSLR News Wed., June 10: John Oliver and New College; historic teardown; CONA; candidate profiles: Flo Entler and Joe Neunder
Episode 439: WSLR News, Fri, June 5: New College financial collision; Christian Nationalism; candidate profiles: Jen Ahearn-Koch and Kristina Sargent
Episode 438: WSLR News Wed., June 3: Neighborhood workshops; biking deaths; school board candidate; measles; women of power
Episode 437: WSLR News Fri., May 29: Bradenton mayor change; cemetery neglect; US Garage; hurricane season
Episode 436: WSLR News Wed., May 27: USF Sarasota-Manatee shutdown; data center; school tax settlement; candidate profile Harshman; candidate profile Pozzie
Episode 435: WSLR News Fri., May 22: Vandalized cemetery; data center; ¡Pleibol!; Braver Angels
Episode 434: WSLR News Wed., May 20: New Booker principal; school taxes; church parking; Bay Park Phase 3; Phillippi Creek dredging
Episode 433: WSLR News Friday May 15: Water violators: Zander debater: Steube: Mark Smith
Episode 432: WSLR News, Wed. May 13: USF Sarasota-Manatee vote; Allen Spence; cemetery vandalism; The Bay dirt pile; Suncoast Jewish Alliance
Episode 431: WSLR News Fri., May 8: School tax fees; Booker High principal; US House candidates: Montavon; hurricane hunters
Episode 430: WSLR News Wed., May 6: Schools v Moran; Live Local; Obsidian; Larry Thompson Q&A
Episode 429: WSLR News Fri., May 1: Live Local clash; Obsidian, round 3; new concrete crushing operator; Sarasota schools sue tax collector; community choir
Episode 428: WSLR News Wed., Apr. 19: DR Horton sues; Democrats apologize; new concrete crushing plant operator; youth mental health; affordable legal help
Episode 427: WSLR News Fri., Apr. 24: New College master plan challenge; school board candidates: DeWitt, Brandt; Regional Scan; Bending the Arc
Episode 426: WSLR News Wed., Apr 22: Concrete crushing; Bill Furst's PAC; student protest policy; District 1 school board candidates; compost merger; plastic bottles
Episode 425: WSLR News Wed., April 8: Land preservation; teacher layoffs; Social Security protest; conservative reactions to No Kings; Fish Fry, the movie
Episode 424: WSLR News Wed., April 1: Sarasota ICE referrals; ICE seeks office space; Gruters insurance bill; No Kings
Episode 423: WSLR News Wed., Mar. 25: Sheriff vs sheriff; No Kings Day events; student protest policy; Van Wezel floodproofing; traffic calming; Control Growth Now award
Episode 422: 'Neighbors Not Strangers': Indivisible Manatee hosts discussion about immigration law and enforcement in Florida
Episode 421: WSLR News Wed., Mar. 18: 1899 Fruitville; concrete crushing permit; Mark Vengroff; New College documentary
Episode 420: WSLR News Wed., Mar. 11: City to sue concrete crushing plant; Urban Meyer and education; Meadows and Benderson; micromobility; a stroll on the farmers' market
Episode 419: WSLR News Wed., Mar 4
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Episode 417: WSLR News Wed., Feb. 18: Sarasota land preservation purchases; CDD bill; Leonard Reid House turns 100; freedge
Episode 416: WSLR News Fri., Feb. 13: Interview with Maryam Mohamad about neighborhood Signal groups in Minneapolis
Episode 415: WSLR News Wed., Feb. 11: EPA guts wetlands protection; City of Sarasota manager search; the city's affordable housing project is back; immigration enforcement panel
Episode 414: WSLR News, Fri., Feb. 6: Interview with a Somali immigrant in Minneapolis
Episode 413: WSLR News Wed. Feb. 4: Artist housing; Neunder vs DeNiro; snitch line; Somali immigrants
Episode 412: WSLR News Fri., Jan. 30: Winchester Ranch; Sarasota schools' ICE resolution; Manatee schools pledge improvement; Trump's Cuba energy blockade
Episode 411: WSLR News Wed., Jan. 28: Saravela; Neunder vs. Live Local; Pretti candlelight vigil
Episode 410: WSLR News Fri., Jan 23: New Ringling College president; why the Van Wezels endorse the new SPAC; public speaking challenges; Amaryllis Park; immigration scams
Episode 409: WSLR News Wed., Jan. 21: Cruise terminal; Ziegler's ICE resolution; Benderson taxing district; MLK Day
Episode 408: WSLR News Fri., Jan. 16: Special report on immigration protest at Alligator Alcatraz
Episode 407: WSLR News Wed., Jan. 14: Affordable housing funding; ICE protest; Gran Paradiso settlement; Van Wezel family endorses SPAC
Episode 406: WSLR News Wed., Jan. 7: Sarasota school makeover; Newtown's historic schools; big development in Venice; public housing near downtown; a Venezuela skeptic
Episode 405: WSLR News Wed., Dec. 17: Sarasota County Commissioners pick chair and talks stormwater standards; EPA strips wetland protections; Manatee schools' HR troubles; stressed farmers; support for immigrants
Episode 404: WSLR News Wed., Dec. 10: MCR Health; Rattlesnake Key; Defend Florida; Siesta Key beach battles
Episode 403: WSLR News Wed., Dec. 3: New Manatee County Commission chair; art erasure lawsuit; Venezuela ambassador; The Amish Project
Episode 402: WSLR News Fri., Nov. 28: Polluter out, affordable housing in; Tallevast contamination; pesticide drones
Episode 401: WSLR News Wed., Nov. 26: Hunger; twice-erased muralist; Mengele survivor; wild turkeys
Episode 400: WSLR News Fri., Nov. 22: Juvenile curfew; oil drilling; Heal Palestine; Unidos Now quince
Episode 399: WSLR News Wed., Nov. 19: Sarasota school board; Siesta Key development; CONA; UnidosNow
Episode 398: WSLR News Fri., Nov. 14
Episode 397: WSLR News Wed., Nov. 12: Climate resilience conference; canopy walkway; Alligator Alcatraz protest
Episode 396: WSLR News Fri., Oct. 7: New College DOGE'd; Manatee approves more CDDs; funding for Sarasota Land Preservation Program
Episode 395: WSLR News Wed., Nov. 5: Sarasota school shuffle; underused schools; Publix open carry pushback; truly affordable housing; clergy vs. ICE
Episode 394: WSLR News Fri., Oct. 31: SEE Squads; special education school takeover; Disappeared in America; Newtown hoop takedown; Performing Arts Foundation gala
Episode 393: WSLR News Wed., Oct. 29: Legislators seek to take control over port from Manatee County; Sarasota takes back Polytech consolidation plans; Thaxton surprises; Ukraine activists
Episode 392: WSLR News Fri., Oct. 24: Hoop trouble; Sarasota Sheriff loves ICE; New College denies emeritus status; VanWezel preservation; active shooter training
Episode 391: WSLR News Wed., Oct. 22: Kristi Noem; No Kings; more school consolidation; DR Horton rejected again; power undergrounding
Episode 390: WSLR News Fri., Oct. 17: judge orders ICE to release undocumented father; The Bay Phase 3; Lakewood Ranch park expands; bathroom boondoggle
Episode 389: WSLR News Wed., Oct. 15: No Kings protests; Phillippi Creek dredging; Tallevast trouble Part 2; Voces de Inmigración 2
Episode 388: WSLR News Fri., Oct. 10: Yoav Gallant in Sarasota; Mater Academies seeks Manatee schools, too; Betty Osceola; Hermitage Artist Retreat; Tallevast contamination
Episode 387: WSLR News Wed., Oct. 8: Sarasota school stays open; Sarasota School Board race; The Bay picks politically connected restaurateur; stormwater politics; Stuart Eizenstat
Episode 386: WSLR News Fri., Oct. 3: Redistricting potest; feeding immigrants in distress; school closings; vaccine politics; Hispanic art
Episode 385: WSLR News Wed., Oct. 1: Florida's jail to ICE pipeline; Nuestro Vaiven; Eat Local Week; remembering Breonte; pickleball champ
Episode 384: WSLR News Fri., Sep. 26: Schools of Hope; open carry confusion; deportation; Hermitage retreat struggles
Episode 383: WSLR News Wed., Sep. 24: Peak hurricane season; jail to ICE pipeline; school closings; hat man
Episode 382: WSLR News Fri., Sep. 19: School closings in Sarasota; a rubber-stamp board for developers?; Culverhouse project
Episode 381: WSLR News Wed., Sep. 17: Botanical garden's treet cutting; immigrant family in distress; prayer vigil; free speech on campus
Episode 380: WSLR News, Fri., Sep. 12: DR Horton hearing; small business in Charlie Kirk trouble; Florida's failing sex ed; 9-11 remembrance
Episode 379: WSLR News Wed., Sept. 10: At least 15 more years for the Van Wezel; Midnight Pass dredging; how to get a COVID booster; headwinds for Sister Cities; Sarasota clergy protest immigrant detention
Episode 378: WSLR News Fri., Sept. 5: Sarasota County hikes water bills by 10%; commissioners raise stormwater fees; New College privatization; David Jolly interview; One Stop Housing
Episode 377: WSLR News Wed., Sep. 3: Manatee joins suit against SB 180; Sarasota sheriff presents scaled-down jail project; trouble at Streets of Paradise; Labor Day action