First Coast Connect

First Coast Week in Review


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Each Friday, our media roundtable dives into the biggest stories of the week. Among our topics this week:

  • A sustained ICE storm of a different kind strikes as immigration enforcement affects everything from campus life to local restaurants.
  • Jacksonville lawmakers consider extending nightclub hours even as a beloved brewery closes.
  • State health officials are criticized for waiting a week to disclose local measles cases.
  • The Museum of Science & History delays construction on its new museum even as its old home is slated for demolition.

We’ll talk about all that and more with our panel of journalists on our Friday Week in Review.

Guests:

  • Mike Mendenhall, associate editor and City Hall reporter at Jacksonville Today
  • Anthony Austin, investigative reporter and anchor, First Coast News
  • Frank Powers, former assignment manager at News4Jax
  • Obi Umanna, attorney and political consultant
Youth piano competition

Piano prodigies compete to perform at the 2026 Lift Every Voice and Sing Festival. For the second year, The Friends of the Brentwood Library is hosting the James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson Youth Piano Competition, honoring the legacy of Jacksonville’s most famous songwriting siblings. The event commemorates the 126th anniversary of Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, also known as the Black national anthem, which was written by James Weldon Johnson and scored by his brother for a celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. The deadline to enter the competition is Feb. 3. The pianists compete at 10 a.m. Feb. 7 at the Jacksonville Main Library.

Guest: Sharon Coon, founder and president, The Friends of Brentwood Public Library

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