There is a new wellness pharmacy coming to the Fort Myers Dunbar community later this year thanks to a $270-thousand dollar investment from the Southwest Florida Community Foundation. Sozo Wellness Pharmacy is a lifelong dream of 41 year old Dr. Shadreka McIntosh, a fourth generation Dunbar resident. She joins us to tell us about her plans for the future.

Ever since the beginning of the modern concept of "science" there have been people who denied certain things despite evidence that they are true or factual. From evolution by natural selection to human-caused climate change, and more recently things like COVID-19 and mask effectiveness and vaccine safety, some people refuse to believe what scientists and researchers reach consensus on.

Hundreds of thousands of Florida children have not been in a classroom for nearly a year. They've been learning through a screen — or not showing up for classes at all — because of the pandemic.

On this episode of the Gulf Coast Life Book Club, Robert Jones, Jr., talks about his New York Times bestselling novel THE PROPHETS and Justine Cowan discusses her memoir THE SECRET LIFE OF DOROTHY SOAMES.

We get a preview of a new statewide Florida Public Media effort called 'Class of COVID-19,' A Look At The Pandemic's Impact On Education which launches next Monday, Feb. 8. In it, public media journalists from around Florida explore the high costs of the pandemic for students who already faced obstacles to success in school before COVID-19 upended public education. We talk with the project’s editor, Jessica Bakeman, education reporter at WLRN in Miami.

We learn about local efforts to support gun violence survivors, and steps being taken to change laws for measures like requiring background checks on all gun sales, by talking with two members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. It's a national non-partisan, grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can help protect people from gun violence.

We’re continuing our series of conversations with speakers from the Naples Discussion Group’s 20-21 schedule by talking with professor Ted Bridis, he is Rob Hiaasen Lecturer in Investigative Reporting in the Department of Journalism at University of Florida. He’ll be presenting a virtual lecture on Friday, January 29 on the Importance of Investigative Journalism in Our Current Environment.

We’re marking Holocaust Awareness Week by meeting a Naples woman who has spent more than four decades as an advocate for awareness and education. Both of Felicia Anchor’s parents were holocaust survivors, and she was born shortly after the war, one of 2,000 babies born from the end of the war until the displaced persons camp her parents were living in closed. She and her husband Kenneth are chairing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 2021 ‘What You Do Matters’ Southeast Virtual Event on February 11, which seeks to inspire people to remember the lessons of the Holocaust and to help combat modern-day antisemitism and hatred.

As doctors, health officials, and researchers around the world continue working to find ways to combat COVID-19 and detect the coronavirus that causes it SARS-CoV-2 some innovative approaches are being tested. The World Health Organization is featuring leading-edge research by our guest today in its database of global literature on coronavirus disease. Dr. Ajeet Kaushik is assistant professor of chemistry at Florida Polytechnic University. He is co-author on three scientific papers released in 2020 and 2021 that explore the use of nanomedicine, biosensors, and artificial intelligence to diagnose and combat COVID-19.

Americorps has been addressing issues and serving needs in the United States since 1965 when it was known as Volunteers in Service to America, or VISTA. We speak with its current CEO Barbara Stewart about the many ways its members are helping people around the country today.