Beyond the News WFLA Interviews

Tampa City Councilman Guido Maniscalco updates the council on efforts to name a street for WFLA radio legend Tedd Webb. Also comments by Councilman John Dingfelder.

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We speak with Rays Vice President of Marketing and Creative Services Eric Weisberg about Saturday's (March 27) Drive to Opening Day event outside Tropicana Field, and about the home opener s well as how the Rays will handle COVID restrictions and welcome back fans at the start of the 2021 season.

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Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises have announced plans to return to Caribbean cruises this summer. They're bypassing the CDC by sailing out of the Bahamas and St. Martin. We speak with Vicky Garcia, chief operating officer of Cruise Planners.

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A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, our buying habits at the grocery store keep changing. We speak with Marta Cyhan, Chief Marketing Officer for Catalina, a St. Petersburg-based company that tracks trends at the checkout.

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Plenty of out-of-state colleges bring their rowing athletes to Florida to train, but the takeup on the sport by Florida schools has been slow. Toni GInsburg-Klemmt, a third year student at New College in Sarasota, is trying to pick up the slack there with a new rowing club, New Crew SRQ, based at New College and open to students at other local institutions.

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Florida Blue Medicare, one of the state's major Medicare networks, is launching an initiative to get more vaccinations in underserved communities. Gordon Byrd speaks with their Senior Medical Director, Dr Paul Kaplan.

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USF is offering an online course on "diversity, equity and inclusion" in the workplace. It's free thanks to support from Jabil and the Tampa Bay Lightning. Gordon Byrd speaks with Dr. Moez Limayem. dean of USF's Muma College of Business.

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Governor DeSantis is due to be a lead-in speaker at CPAC in Orlando Friday. A new poll of 1,000 Floridians shows support for his handling of the pandemic. Gordon Byrd speaks with Frank Orlando of the St. Leo University Polling Institute.

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Unlike many universities, Florida Polytechnic is looking to hire professors -- 25 of them for the fall semester. University provost Dr. Terry Parker tells us what areas they're looking to fill and why the university is able to do this in the middle of a pandemic.

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Most states that are successful in attracting movie production offer incentives. But a lobbying campaign against "Hollywood Handouts" has killed incentive programs in Florida. A group is trying to get around that by putting together private investors to bring production to certain regions of the state. Gordon Byrd speaks with Chris Ranung of Feature Florida Partnerships.

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