Intersection: Does FCAT measure student achievement or detract from education?

FCAT writing scores released this month were shockingly low. State educators called an emergency meeting where they lowered the passing grade so school funding would not be drastically affected. This left many wondering about the credibility of Florida’s Comprehensive Assessment Test as a measurement of student education. This week on Intersection 90.7′s Mark Simpson talks [...]

Intersection: Chairman of the Florida Republican Party

The Tea Party’s rise reflects popular American concern for government spending and debt, says Lenny Curry, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. Curry discusses the Tea Party, election year and Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law this week on Intersection. He says that while the Tea Party has left the Republican Party divided during an [...]

Intersection: The political implications of Trayvon Martin’s death

Trayvon Martin’s death takes place during an election year in a critical swing state. The story of the 17-year-old shot to death by a neighborhood watchman in Sanford has come up in the White House, Congress and Tallahassee. 90.7′s political commentators Dick Batchelor and Lou Frey discuss the political implications of Trayvon’s death this week [...]

Intersection: Orlando’s mayoral candidates

Orlando’s volunteer crime watch program stretches city resources and helps keep neighborhoods safe, Orlando mayoral candidate Phil Diamond says. Diamond and Orlando mayoral candidate Mike Cantone appear this week on Intersection as part of a special two-week series of interviews with the city’s mayoral candidates. Incumbent Buddy Dyer faces three challengers in his bid for [...]

Intersection: Orlando’s mayoral candidates

Ambitious expansion projects such as SunRail, the Amway Center and new Medical City in Lake Nona are even more important in today’s economy, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer says. Dyer faces three challengers in his bid for re-election April 3. This week on Intersection 90.7′s Mark Simpson interviews Dyer and challenger Ken Mulvaney as part of [...]

Intersection: Haridopolos on delaying budget negotiations

Lawmakers’ top priority during each Legislative session is to approve a balanced state budget. But this year Senate President Mike Haridopolos has gathered support from a majority of senators who want to delay budget negotiations. Lawmakers face a difficult budget year. They’ll have to address an up to $2 billion short-fall after already having made deep cuts in [...]

City cuts, a new council and the artist: Radical Face

FOP Chief Nelson Cuba counted the ways with us of how the city’s budget process is about to turn real ugly? Sheriff John Rutherford says he will have to lay off police officers beginning Oct. 1 because of budget cuts made by the City Council’s Finance Committee. He put the number at 52 but that’s high. Rutherford didn’t exactly get [...]

Gulf Coast Live: Arts Edition – Jazz Concert Honors Mark Murphy

The Jazz Foundation of America and Sarasota big band leader George Carroll holds a jazz concert in Venice honoring legendary jazz vocalist Mark Murphy with a Lifetime Achievement award. The Foundation provides rent, food, utilities and jobs for nearly 1000 needy blues and jazz musicians. We’ll hear music from Murphy and Carroll’s big band. The [...]

On First Coast Connect: Zone Diet, Steve Berry, and Media Roundtable

Thursday morning, we were joined by Zone Diet creator, Dr. Barry Sears. Author of The Zone, a New York Times #1 bestseller, Barry said America’s health care reform should start in the kitchen, and that a “Perfect Nutritional Storm” can be reversed through anti-inflammatory diets. To find out more information, go to www.zonediet.com or www.drsears.com. [...]

Gulf Coast Live: Childhood Obesity Lee County

In the last twenty years the number of children who are overweight has doubled – for adolescents it has tripled.  To battle this issue the three groups are teaming up with the American Heart Association to come up with a plan.  Plus, do you feel safe taking your pet to the vet?  We’ll look at [...]