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Local news and politics program, broadcasting from Sarasota's own WSLR 96.5 LP FM, every Wednesday & Friday at 6 pm (with a Week in Review on Saturday at Noon).  Check us out on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter or at www.WSLR.org.

  1. WSLR News Fri., Feb. 13: Interview with Maryam Mohamad about neighborhood Signal groups in Minneapolis

    1D AGO

    WSLR News Fri., Feb. 13: Interview with Maryam Mohamad about neighborhood Signal groups in Minneapolis

    The community member with Somali immigration background describes how - even though most of them have U.S. citizenship - she feels the Somali community in Minneapolis was a key target of ICE enforcement during the soon-to-be concluded Operation Metro Surge. She also describes the community response around Signal neighborhood groups.

    30 min

  2. 5D AGO

    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

    Coming up: The Trump administration’s EPA wants to gut wetland protections. Brice Claypoole explores what that could mean for Sarasota. Next: Who will be the next Sarasota city manager? The commissioners boiled down the field of applicants to six, and a front runner has emerged. Next: A controversial affordable housing project run by the City of Sarasota is back. Suncoast Searchlight brings you the details. Finally: Immigration enforcement is on everyone’s mind. A WSLR panel this Saturday will feature two sheriffs and an immigrant advocate.

    31 min

  3. FEB 7

    WSLR News, Fri., Feb. 6: Interview with a Somali immigrant in Minneapolis

    Operation Metro Surge put Minneapolis in the national headlines, and the Somali immigrant community is at the center of that ICE storm. We interviewed a Somali immigrant who a couple years ago decided to move her family from Bradenton to Minneapolis. Here is our full-length interview with Lul Kassim.

    32 min

  4. FEB 4

    WSLR News Wed. Feb. 4: Artist housing; Neunder vs DeNiro; snitch line; Somali immigrants

    It’s a first for Sarasota, the city of arts: A sizable apartment complex offering long-term, affordable housing for artists. We have the details of the Artscape project. Next: In the race for District 4, the recent past chair of the Sarasota County Commission, Joe Neunder, will be facing a Republican opponent in the primaries. Jim DeNiro is a cop.  Then: A Florida tip line that is supposed to provide leads about law enforcement not doing a good job on immigration has turned into a snitch line for neighbors. Finally: Minneapolis is making national headlines with Operation Metro Surge, and Somali immigrants are at the center of that ICE storm. Lul Kassim decided to move from Bradenton to Minnesota, because she believed it was a better place to raise her children. We have her story.

    31 min

  5. JAN 31

    WSLR News Fri., Jan. 30: Winchester Ranch; Sarasota schools' ICE resolution; Manatee schools pledge improvement; Trump's Cuba energy blockade

    On Tuesday, the Sarasota County Commission slammed the brakes on a 9,000-home development that could have eviscerated the last big chunk of rural land in the area between North Port and Englewood. Next: Last week, the Sarasota School Board narrowly passed a resolution promising full cooperation with ICE. But what does this actually mean? Alice Herman with Suncoast Searchlight tries to find answers. Then: An investigative report by Suncoast Searchlight and the Bradenton Herald showed a trend of rising abuses by teachers in the Manatee County school district. Josh Salman brings us a follow-up report about how the district pledges improvement. Finally: Trump is imposing an energy blockade on the island to our south. Massive blackouts in Cuba are becoming increasingly likely.

    32 min

  6. JAN 29

    WSLR News Wed., Jan. 28: Saravela; Neunder vs. Live Local; Pretti candlelight vigil

    A developer is marketing the affordable housing in their downtown Sarasota high-rise as short-term rentals. What gives? Suncoast Searchlight investigates. Then: Florida’s Live Local Act is meant to produce affordable housing. But one Sarasota County Commissioner has problems with that law. Ramon Lopez has that story. Finally: The killing by ICE agents of a nurse in Minneapolis is making waves in Sarasota, too, where a couple hundred people gathered yesterday. Jackson Rothman reports.

    23 min

  7. JAN 23

    WSLR News Fri., Jan 23: New Ringling College president; why the Van Wezels endorse the new SPAC; public speaking challenges; Amaryllis Park; immigration scams

    The post-Larry Thompson era is in sight at Ringling College of Art and Design. We have the details about the first new president picked to take the helm of the private campus in Sarasota this century.  Next: The grandchildren of the family whose name is on the Van Wezel shocked some in Sarasota when they endorsed the project of a new performing arts center. We have a report with more details about their rationale and the design changes that convinced them. Then: Public speakers at the first Sarasota City commission meeting this year were getting pushback from Mayor Debbie Trice. Suncoast Searchlight has a report. Next: The Amaryllis Park Neighborhood Association in Newtown is putting the focus on crime and restorative justice. Ed James the Third reports. Finally: Amid the Trump Administration’s crackdown, immigrants are easy prey to legal scammers. Suncoast Searchlight reports.

    31 min

  8. JAN 21

    WSLR News Wed., Jan. 21: Cruise terminal; Ziegler's ICE resolution; Benderson taxing district; MLK Day

    If it is built, it would be one of the region’s largest infrastructure projects in years: A cruise terminal at the foot of the Sunshine Skyway. We get local reactions to the big plans.  Then: Sarasota School Board member Bridget Ziegler got her way: Her proposed resolution pledging full cooperation with ICE and other law enforcement triggered a protest, more than four hours of public comment at yesterday’s school board meeting, and a narrow vote in favor of the resolution.   Next: More developer control - a bill filed in the state legislature would give the Suncoast’s biggest private landowner taxing authority. That raises a lot of questions, as Suncoast Searchlight reports. Finally: This year’s theme of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebrations in Sarasota was “uniting nations in a peaceful way”. Ed James the Third reports for WSLR.

    31 min
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Local news and politics program, broadcasting from Sarasota's own WSLR 96.5 LP FM, every Wednesday & Friday at 6 pm (with a Week in Review on Saturday at Noon).  Check us out on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter or at www.WSLR.org.

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    2020 - 2026
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