First Coast Connect

Tuesday on First Coast Connect we spoke with faculty director of the University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab Mike Binder about UNF’s latest polling numbers regarding Florida’s U.S. Senate and Governor races (01:03). Our latest segment of Moveable Feast featured the talents behind Moon Over the Market . Moveable Feast host Leigh Cort of The Women’s Food Alliance interviewed Executive Director Aaron Thursby and Nichole Chapman with the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association.

Monday on First Coast Connect we heard about the JAX Chamber’s upcoming Infrastructure Innovation Summit with Chamber Vice-President for Entrepreneurial Growth Carlton Robinson and Amin Toufani , CEO of T Labs in Silicon Valley who will be one of the event’s speakers (01:03). Our latest segment of First Coast Success with Jacksonville Daily Record Editor Karen Brune- Mathis featured Matt Bridgewater from Gem Products (19:28). This is National Rail Safety Week. We spoke with the chief of CSX’s

Our First Coast Connect Friday Media Roundtable with guest host A.G Gancarski Our panelists were Florida Times-Union reporter David Bauerlein , WJCT contributor Fred Matthews , Folio Weekly Editor Claire Goforth and Jacksonville Daily Record reporte r David Cawton (00:58). Topics included: Jacksonville’s six current and former mayors got together at Jacksonville University this week to talk about the 50th anniversary of consolidation in Jacksonville and its impact on the community. The Downtown

Thursday First Coast Connect featured guest host Charlene Shirk. She was joined by local historian Jim Crooks and attorney Earl Johnson Jr. to talk about the 50th anniversary of Consolidation in Jacksonville (01:38). The Bank of America is getting ready to announce the latest recipients of its Neighborhood Builders Awards . With a preview we were joined by Northeast Florida Market President Greg Smith and local market manager Martha Barrett (28:46) The Youth Crisis Center and Feeding Northeast

Wednesday on First Coast Connect featured guest host Charlene Shirk. She was joined by Alex Rudnick from Generation U.S, Phyllis Martin from United Way of Northeast Florida and Brenda Ford from New Town. They discussed the Community Leaders Igniting Mobility , or CLIMB project that looks to help unemployed and underemployed youth in Jacksonville find quality jobs (01:20). We discussed the link scientists and environmentalists say is occurring between rising global temperatures and the strength

Tuesday on First Coast Connect featured guest host David Cawton , reporter for The Jacksonville Daily Record . Ahead of Wednesday’s Downtown Investment Authority meeting he spoke with DIA Executive Director Aundra Wallace and Visit Jacksonville President Michael Corrigan. The DIA will be evaluating three submitted proposals for a new convention center (01:28). Author of the book The Daily Six , John Chappelear joined the show to talk about his program Advanced Community Policing that helps first

Monday on First Coast Connect guest host Charles Griggs spoke with State Senator Audrey Gibson about her bill to provide $10 million in support for the former employees impacted by the contamination at the Fairfax Street Wood Treaters facility. Closed in 2010, the bill claims workers were subjected to high levels of chromated copper arsenate without the benefit of training or protective gear (01:22). The I’m A Star Foundation is working to help the more than 3,000 homeless students reported to

Our Friday Media Roundtable on First Coast Connect featured Folio Weekly editor Claire Goforth , radio host Angela Spears and Jacksonville Business Journal editor Timothy Gibbons (00:54). Our panel discussed As Hurricane Florence pounds the Carolinas we took at how the recovery is progressing one year after Hurricane Irma . JEA filed a lawsuit to get out from under a contract with a troubled nuclear power plant in Georgia The Florida Times-Union announced it will move most of its operations into

On Thursday’s First Coast Connect we spoke with Ken Burns . The legendary filmmaker is in Jacksonville for a Thursday night screening and discussion panel of his latest documentary The Mayo Clinic Faith - Hope - Science at UNF (01:21). Watch The Video We heard about the musical performance Tropical Depression coming to the Cummer Museum on Friday. It was inspired by Hurricanes Matthew and Irma. We spoke with songwriter Corey Driscoll and co-producer Aaron Garvey (43:13). The Jacksonville Film

It’s National Suicide Prevention Week . On Wednesday’s First Coast Connect we talked about the suicide crisis among veterans and what is being done locally to combat it with Katherine Eicher , the lead suicide prevention coordinator for VA in North Florida and South Georgia and Daniel Henry, Public Information Officer for the region’s VA (01:10). We spoke with Barbara Goldstein . She has spent over 30 years engaging communities on the importance of public art. She’s the keynote speaker at this