TBT Editor Mitch Maley and local government reporter Dawn Kitterman run down a busy week in local government that included a contentious meeting between Manatee County and Holmes Beach elected officials, some county government reorganization, and a land-use meeting that included a controversial approval.

Elana Farkas is the program director for Project Light of Manatee, a non-profit adult English learning center. She joins the podcast this week to discuss Project Light's mission, the challenges facing immigrants who are not English proficient, and the many, many ways that increasing their English literacy benefits our community.

Writer, Tampa News Force editor, stand-up comedian, and jack of many trades Clark Brooks joins the podcast this week to talk about his unique career journey since moving to Tampa in the mid-'80s.

Carol Felts is an 8th generation Floridian, longtime Myakka resident, citizen activist, and grassroots candidate for the Manatee County Commission. She joins the podcast this week to tell us what inspired her to run for office and what she hopes to accomplish. TBT's Dawn Kitterman also drops by to talk about her reporting on a county employee pay issue, which ruffled a lot of political feathers.

This week, Cooper Levy-Baker, senior editor for Sarasota Magazine, joins the podcast to discuss his debut novel, Dead Fish Wind, a dystopian thriller set in a not-too-distant future Florida in which our many water woes have come to a head.

TBT's Mitch Maley and Dawn Kitterman discuss relaxing COVID protocols, Dawn's new reporting on county pay raise questions (along with her confrontation at WaWa when a man lost his cool over her "Fauci mask"!), and more.

Former Lincoln Memorial Academy Principal Eddie Hundley returns to the podcast to discuss the Ja’Quyla Jones story, update us on the LMA federal lawsuit, and have a broad discussion with TBT editor Mitch Maley on the way in which we might be able to reimagine some aspects of public education in order to provide for better outcomes.

Editor Mitch Maley talks with TBT staff writer Dawn Kitterman regarding her reporting on the Manatee County Commission redistricting process and irregularities she discovered when examining maps that Commissioner Vanessa Baugh claimed to have drawn herself before submitting them for consideration.

This week, TBT's Mitch Maley and Dawn Kitterman discuss the case of a 12-year-old special needs student at Palm View K-8 who was terrorized by school administrators and local law enforcement and Manatee County Commissioner Vanessa Baugh's declaration that she would be resigning from the board, most likely before the end of the year.

TBT's Mitch Maley and Dawn Kitterman discuss a wild week in Manatee County politics as the county commission devolved into petty bickering over electing its new chair, approved a gargantuan development that will transform a major agrarian corridor, and a citizen took the dais to directly report sexual harassment from a county code enforcement officer.