In this episode, we discuss Statewide and Jacksonville redistricting efforts and why they are so important. We sit down with Andrew Pantazi of The Tributary who has been following these discussions very closely. Warning there is some math in this episode. 

 Andrew Pantazi edits and reports for The Tributary. He previously worked as a reporter at The Florida Times-Union where he helped organize the newsroom's union with the NewsGuild-CWA. He and his wife, Lauren, are both Jacksonville natives raising their two sons in the city. You can contact him at Andrew.Pantazi@JaxTrib.org.

This week we look at an attempt to renew the Eastside of Jacksonville with Will Brown of Jacksonville Today.  We discuss why this area is important to Jacksonville becoming a first-class city. **Sound quality issues with Wifi we have fixed for future episodes bear with us**

 Will Brown is a Report for America corps members focusing on race, poverty and inequality for Jacksonville Today.

He previously reported for the Jacksonville Business Journal. And before that, he spent more than a decade as a sports reporter at The St. Augustine Record, Victoria (Texas) Advocate and the Tallahassee Democrat.

Over his 15-year career, Brown has won awards for breaking news, social media and photography. And in 2020, he contributed photographs for WFSU News/Health News Florida’s national Murrow Award-winning series “Committed: How and Why Children Became the Fastest Growing Group Under Florida’s Baker Act.”

Why You Should Care is back ! We are back with all new episodes. This episode is with my friend  Evelyn Perez Verdia founder of "We Are Mas".  We talk about what campaigns get wrong about Hispanic voters, misinformation, and how to speak to immigrant communities. 
Evelyn has advised several gubernatorial campaigns, several elections supervisors, and worked with non-profit and civic institutions. In 2020, Pérez-Verdía worked on the presidential campaigns including Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden in messaging/engagement advisory with Hispanics and other exile communities. One of the examples of Evelyn’s vision for activating communities was her donation of the logos of the Con Biden groups to the Joe Biden campaign in 2020.  She often contributes to CNN en Español, Univision, and Telemundo.  Evelyn has been quoted  in the Associated Press, EFE, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, Newsweek, and gives commentary to various reputable international media organizations with her analysis. She is frequently requested to train groups or invited to be a public speaker at conferences. You can find out more about her work here www.wearemasfl.com/

**Had some sound quality issues on my end due to wifi but the convo was important and didn't want to scrap it.

On this episode of Why You Should Care?  We sit down with three of Florida's best consultants and talk everything about Florida Politics. We discuss what elected officials you should be talking about. What upcoming race they are excited about and some advice for people running for office.  

Guests:
Jasmine Burney-Clark @missburneysays

Maya Brown         @MsMayaBrown

Siottis Jackson     @Siottis22

Charities :   www.jamslife.org www.dontmissabeat.org

Nate Monroe from the Florida Time and I were invited to the Jax downtown Council to talk about media and downtown. I thought some of the topics we touched on were great and wanted to share it here. Bonus Episode - Give to charity. 

This episode is all about the vaccine rollout in Florida. People have nicknamed it the Vaccine Hungar Games because of the lack of planning that has gone into the rollout. So we have Ben Conarck, a reporter with the Miami Herald, who has been covering Covid 19 since it has appeared in Florida to discuss the state rollout.

As the vaccines are starting to become available to the general public  I wanted to provide a forum to answer questions people may have about the Coronavirus vaccine  So I invited  Dr. Porter who is a Nephrology Specialist with the Mayo Clinic to discuss questions that I got from listeners. This is a rare non-political episode. 

We are looking outside of Jacksonville as we talk about all things GA Senate Races with Tia Mitchell of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Tia Mitchell is the Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Washington correspondent. In this role, she writes about Georgia’s congressional delegation, campaigns, elections and the impact that decisions made in D.C. have on residents of the Peach State.