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Kelly Kirschner makes a case for Sarasota’s Florida congressional seat (opens the original)
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Florida is just 46 days away from the general election, and in the southern Tampa Bay area, Democrat Kelly Kirschner thinks he can succeed Vern Buchanan in a newly redrawn CD16. Kirschner—a third-generation Floridian, former Mayor of Sarasota, and once the youngest city commissioner in the history of the municipality—faces Republican Sydney Gruters and thinks he has a pathway “It’s gonna be a healthy margin of victory on November third,” he told The Skinny on Friday afternoon. The 51-year-old al
Zayd Ayers Dohrn discusses his childhood on the run, and how he explains the Weather Underground to his own kids (opens the original)
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Zayd Ayers Dohrn is a playwright and screenwriter who teaches at Northwestern University, but his childhood was also spent largely on the lam since his parents were Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, activists and founders of the Weather Underground. His new memoir, “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, & Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground” revisits that relationship with his parents, and this morning on WMNF public affairs program The Skinny, Dohrn discussed his book, his childhood,
Save The Garden discusses push to challenge Scientology’s Garden Avenue takeover in downtown Clearwater (opens the original)
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Downtown Clearwater is synonymous with the Church of Scientology, which is headquartered there. The church itself, and its owners, control an overwhelming proportion of downtown. Over the summer, the city officials moved closer to handing part of downtown’s Garden Avenue to the church. Save The Garden is pushing back against the proposal allowing the handover,… The post Save The Garden discusses push to challenge Scientology’s Garden Avenue takeover in downtown Clearwater appeared first on WMNF
Tampa Bay reporters, along with professors from Florida and beyond, discuss Florida’s primary and the reliability of polls (opens the original)
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This time next week, the table will be set for the November midterms. While former Republican David Jolly is all but guaranteed to be the Democrats’ only hope to get back in the governor’s mansion for the first time since Gov. Lawton Chiles, other races—especially the one between Rep. Angie Nixon and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman—will is still a toss up. Tampa Bay Times political editor Michael Van Sickler was in the WMNF studio on Friday to discuss those races and more with The Skinny. Also on the
Rep. Michele Rayner makes her case to voters deciding Florida’s District 16 Senate Seat (opens the original)
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The primary election for Florida’s District 16 Senate seat is effectively the general, and two powerful women from the Florida House of Representatives are on the ballot: Democratic House Leader Rep. Fentrice Driskell and Rep. Michele Rayner. Late last month, Rep. Driskell made her case to listeners of “The Skinny,” and today Rep. Rayner was on the air to speak her piece. Rayner, a Democrat who’s been in state house since 2020, talked data centers, working on bills with Republicans, and even pun
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