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Hundreds of people marched on the State Capitol this (Monday) morning to protest Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. As Sascha Cordner reports, they were led by the Reverend Al Sharpton and the parents of two slain teens.

A bill that would create a new statewide sex offender task force within the Florida Attorney General’s office got a green light from a House committee today.  But, as Ryan Benk reports, there are those who wonder if another statewide task force is the best way to go.

The 411 Teen panel consists of female students from SAIL High School. They examine the hypersexualization of teens in the media and advertising, the impact of social media, the morphing of Miley Cyrus, and the significance of role models in the culture. Host: Dr. Liz Holifield.

Original airdate: March 8, 2014

Award-winning writer and cook Deborah Madison is here with the missing puzzle piece for vegetable cooking – the plants themselves. Her book is “Vegetable Literacy” . . . and we visit with the duo from The Perennial Plate, an online documentary series dedicated to socially responsible and adventurous eating.

Sunday, March 16th at 8pm on 88.9 and 7pm central time on 89.1.

NPR Borderland

An NPR News team including Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep will drive both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in March. They plan to travel east to west, starting at the Brownsville, Texas/Matamoros, Mexico border and making their way to Tijuana, crossing the border several times.

Every story will involve a crossing -- of people, goods, money or culture -- from one side of the border to the other. They explore the often surprising ways two neighboring nations influence one another.

Years after it became law, the Federal Affordable Care Act – “Obamacare” if you prefer – is still a topic of ferocious debate and political grandstanding.  Florida was one of the states that chose not to set up a health care exchange of its own in support of the federal law.  But, quietly and without much fanfare, Florida did roll out a health insurance marketplace of sorts earlier this week. Lynn Hatter reports that marketplace should not be confused with the federal health insurance exchanges and should by no means be associated with Obamacare..