Florida remains without a state budget and the prospects for that happening anytime soon didn’t improve this week. But there may be a better chance that Florida will embark on a congressional redistricting exercise.
Today (Friday, April 17) is the one-year anniversary of the deadly shooting at Florida State University. Tom Flanigan introduces our team coverage.
Gina Jordan speaks with Reid Seybold on the anniversary of the tragedy.
Florida lawmakers this year passed a school safety bill. It follows last year’s deadly shooting on the FSU campus. It had several provisions meant to improve campus emergency response and security. But as Tristan Wood explains, one element of it got significant pushback from Democrats and other advocates.
Last year, in the days following the Florida State University shooting, students and community members left notes, flowers, candles and stuffed animals creating memorials throughout the campus. Over the past year, members of the FSU library and archives teams have worked to collect, preserve and catalog those items. Regan McCarthy takes us back to a collection day that took place last April and gives us an update on where the project stands today.
A theatre project in Sarasota brings together Black and Jewish people, old and young, to exchange personal stories of overcoming racism and anti-semitism. As WUSF's Kerry Sheridan reports, the idea is rooted in a friendship that bloomed during the Civil Rights movement -- between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel [HESH-uhl].