Rick's Podcasts

The full show: Jordan Green, Brian Clark, Troy Rafferty, Jayden D'Onofrio, Chandra Smiley, Jason Brewster and Cam Johnson.

Cox Enterprises is piloting a partnership with DonorsChoose, an education nonprofit empowering public school teachers to request essential classroom materials. The Cox Enterprises STEAM-Powered Classroom Challenge will match up to $100,000 in individual community contributions dollar-for-dollar on qualified STEAM and sustainability-related DonorsChoose projects in schools in under-resourced communities.  Cam Johnson shares Gulf Coast Market is one of ten nationwide locations chosen as part of the DonorsChoose project.

A new Axios-Generation Lab poll found that 58% of voters between Gen Z and younger millennials aren't sure if they'll vote in November.  Jayden D'Onofrio, the president of the Florida chapter of Voters of Tomorrow, knows young voters can make a difference in the 2024 election cycle. 

The House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations Committee have approved HB 21 and SB 24, which would create a compensation program for those who were abused between 1940 and 1975 while students at the now-closed Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. LPR attorney Troy Rafferty discusses his testimony before the committees.

Raw Story reporter Jordan Green discusses his four-month investigation into the 2119 Blood and Soil Crew, a nationwide network of teenage Nazis, and its connection to a series of anti-semitic and racist vandalism in downtown Pensacola and East Hill, including bricks being thrown through windows at Jewish places of worship.

The full show: Jennifer Brahier,  Mark Remallard, Paul Tamburro and Adrianne Walker.

Pensacola's historic preservation planner, Adrianne Walker, previewed her Table Talk for the UWF Historic Trust on the Miraflores Burial Ground Study.

Pensacola City Councilwoman Jennifer Brahier has been looking at past agenda packets and viewing videos of meetings held before she took office in November 2020 to “get a better picture of what has landed us right where we are now.” Before she took office, the council passed a motion by Councilwoman Ann Hill to move $715,000 away from repairing the aging gym to refurbishing Magee Field. Then it got "wonky."

Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola has been named as one of the nation’s 50 best cardiovascular hospitals by Fortune and PINC AI, marking the seventh time the hospital has been named on the prestigious list.Sacred Heart Pensacola is the only Northwest Florida hospital and only one of five Florida hospitals on the 2024 list.  Dr. Paul Tamburro talks about what makes Ascension Sacred Heart unique. 

The full show: Sena Maddison, Jim Ryan, Katie Blankenship, D.C. Reeves and Karen Travers.