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Florida Matters

WUSF Public Media

Your spot for real, daily conversations. Where neighbors become storytellers, newsmakers explain why and how changes happen and where locals — natives to the area and newcomers — discover and delight in the community they share.

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592 episodes

  1. Steven Van Zandt’s music-education program helps teach kids about the Holocaust 48:17
  2. Workers’ comp denied after classroom mold sickens teachers. Plus, Veterans Day reflections 47:57
  3. A ‘big hairy mess’? Amendment 3’s passage and options for lost local funding 48:25
  4. What USF’s rise in academics and research means for enrollment, and diving with a purpose 48:00
  5. Florida’s political landscape is still red, but the nation’s changes are out of the blue 48:15
  6. Growth and affordability in Manatee County, and defining democratic socialism 48:35
  7. Manatee County at the crossroads of Florida's affordability, growth and development woes 51:30
  8. Spanning music genres – and Tampa Bay – to celebrate Public Radio Music Day 48:27
  9. Census changes could leave some communities invisible, and a bookmobile of Epstein files 47:41
  10. Are Florida’s local governments losing autonomy? Also, Halloween sweets talk 47:43
  11. How the World Series-bound Tampa Bay Rays play ball on and off the field 48:36
  12. Angie Nixon makes her case for a U.S. Senate seat, and remembering the late Joe Redner 47:42
  13. Why the Seminole Tribe and DraftKings are at odds, and the psychology of a good scare 48:39
  14. Florida's Black vote is more complex than polls show, and roller coaster safety 47:26
  15. Factors that affect a food pantry's goal, and businesses opposing the SoHo flood project 47:34
  16. What nonprofits are thinking about Amendment 3, and a new film finds Florida's underbelly 48:37
  17. Explaining the Hope Florida expunge ruling, and caregiving without losing yourself 48:23
  18. Foreclosure pressures grow on homeowners, and the big debate over four vaccines 48:36
  19. A historical motto or painful reminder on driver's licenses? Also, razing Tampa's past 48:37
  20. SNAP changes and the impact of food banks, plus a media merger with warning flags 48:22
  21. Hubbard's Marina fills us in on the Cross-Bay Ferry's progress, and cop Flock abuse 48:37
  22. Trop site's future awaits winner of St. Petersburg's mayoral race, and Brightline’s bankruptcy 47:33
  23. In search of accountability in the Hope Florida saga, and SpaceX launches 46:13
  24. Insight from the WUSF reporters behind ‘The Cost of Power’ series, and taking charge of AI 47:20
  25. Kathy Castor converses on costs of housing, and how student-athletes can play it safe 48:00
  26. The debate over debates in Florida elections, and learning campaign finance loopholes 48:37
  27. Parents trapped in a temporary foster care 'side door,' and Florida hunting prep 48:27
  28. Poring over the Amendment 3 property tax measure, and a dengue update 48:33
  29. A good day to walk or bike (and not drive), and Florida’s fascinating role in film 47:50
  30. Pinellas County School District weighs closures and mergers, more on FWC surveillance 48:29
  31. Fired over a social media post, and a local club owner’s fight over concert fees 37:07
  32. Hospital association CEO ties property taxes to healthcare, and PlayStation's disc-continuation 37:49
  33. What is a love bug? Here’s an expert with many flying facts to give 37:24
  34. A collective sign from teachers unions, homes built with 3D printing, winning by the sword 37:18
  35. Kids left in limbo by closing of juvenile justice facility, and following political money 48:22
  36. 25 years later: How 9/11 changed the country, the skies and the future 47:41
  37. As cyclosporiasis wanes, does lettuce still make you nervous? And where are the hurricanes? 48:44
  38. The Clancy trial and understanding postpartum psychosis, plus inside the art of cosplay 48:34
  39. Why cats are crowding shelters, and when environmental worry overwhelms 47:47
  40. The Rays’ next steps, Hope Florida’s money trail, and an alternate Haslam’s plan 48:21
  41. Flock critics share their concerns, and earthquake help for Colombia and Venezuela 48:10
  42. Wanted: a new generation of truck drivers. And every generation gets an ‘Odyssey’ 48:33
  43. Florida’s shadowy immigration database, and remembering the Buffalo Soldiers 48:39
  44. A county rethinks park funding, the appeal of going old-school, the latest on sloth deaths 48:15
  45. A school board’s partisan pendulum swings, and multitasking food trucks 48:36
  46. Scrubbing climate science from textbooks, and Tampa Theatre turns back the clock 48:08
  47. Breaking down primary night's winners and losers, and Hillsborough schools get an A 48:20
  48. Class acts: Rethinking school success for teens under stress, and a head start in hospitality 47:35
  49. Vindman challenges political headwinds, and USF nursing school's major expansion 48:12
  50. Spotting Big Tech and AI in local politics. Also, a college turns trash into treasure 47:52