Beyond the News WFLA Interviews

It's 100 days since Family Support Services took over child and foster services in Pinellas and Pasco counties. We speak with CEO Jenn Petion on how things are going, and how they're doing with hiring and other issues.

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The Rays open their season Friday (8th) hosting Baltimore. Chief Business Officer Bill Walsh talks about the team's promotions and concessions at Tropicana Field this year.

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The weekend of April 2-3 is one of two weekends a year that people are allowed to fish license-free in Florida freshwater. We speak with John Cimbaro, a fisheries biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

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After a three year break due to COVID, Tampa is bringing back the River O Green Fest and dyeing the Hillsborough to celebrate St Patrick's Day. It's delayed one day to Sunday (13) because of stormy weather forecast Saturday. Gordon Byrd speaks with Ashly Anderson of the Tampa Downtown Partnership.

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We lose an hour when Daylight Saving Time returns March 13th, and losing an hour of sleep in the morning turns Spring Forward into Fall Forward for many. Dr. Fareeha Hussaini of USF Health talks about how to keep from losing sleep over DST.

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Nikki Austin speaks about the Skyway 10K run across the Sunshine Skyway over Tampa Bay Sunday (March 6th), benefitting the Armed Forces Family Foundation.

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Operation Dynamo, a nonprofit based in Tampa, has assembled a team including many veterans and intelligence experts to get Americans and others out of Ukraine. Spokesman James Judge gives us an update.

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Several members of Congress have signed a letter asking President Biden to grant Temporary Protected Status to individuals from Ukraine who are in this country undocumented or illegally. We speak with Florida immigration attorney Renata Castro about what this means.

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History is suddenly a hotly debated topic in the Legislature and local school boards, with controversies over what is taught and how it's taught. At the end of February, Florida historians are getting ready for their annual conference at Saint Leo University north of Tampa. We speak with Dr. Daniel DuBois, a history professor at Saint Leo who's heading the Florida Conference of Historians.

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It's time for the Florida State Fair again. It runs at the fairgrounds in Tampa starting February 10th through the 21st. We speak with the fair's executive director, Cheryl Flood.

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