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In Context
Facing the Mortgage Crisis Call-in Program
First Coast Connect
First Coast Forum
Florida Frontiers
Perspectives

In Context

89.9 FM WJCT Senior Staff Reporter Kevin Meerschaert hosts a weekly radio newsmagazine that showcases First Coast news, public affairs and cultural events on Friday’s and Saturday’s.

In Context airs Friday, February 05 at 6:30pm and Saturday, February 06 from 7-8am, rebroadcast 3-4pm.

The next In Context

Topics:

Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton announces a plan to expand the public reach into the budget process.
We’ll hear about a seminar this weekend looking to improve student achievement among African-American males.
As part of its anniversary celebration Jacksonville University honors 75 alumni, faculty and staff.

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Facing the Mortgage Crisis Call-in Program

Aired Thursday, August 20, 2009, 8:30-10:00pm

Facing the Mortgage Crisis is a live 90 minute call-in program produced by WJCT and hosted by Karen Feagins. We will talk to local experts, government officials, and social service providers about the foreclosure problems that continue to affect First Coast families. Viewers of the program will be able to call or e-mail questions to our panelists and will also be directed to services to help them handle their own financial problems.

PANELISTS:

Chip Parker/Jacksonville Foreclosure Task Force
Lynn Drysdale/Consumer Law Attorney, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid
Ed Gaston/Vice President of Community Development, Wealth Watchers
Connie Hodges/ President, United Way of Northeast Florida
Kevin Hyde/Jacksonville City Council
Dana Moore/Home Ownership Programs Administrator, St. Johns County
Richard Paige/Director of Home Ownership, The Housing Partnership of NE Florida
Sidney Rosenberg/UNF Real Estate Professor
Nick Shelley/US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Jacksonville Field Office Director

First Coast Connect

Host Melissa Ross gets plugged in to everything that’s happening around the First Coast. Join her on First Coast Connect, a program that showcases the issues, trends and newsmakers that have people talking. The one-hour programs airs Monday to Friday at 9am. Tune in. Get connected!

Topics for February 8-12

Monday

How local census workers are counting Jacksonville’s homeless
Real Sense Prosperity Campaign
Comedian Steve Solomon- “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m In Therapy”
Arts with TU’s Laura Capitano

Tuesday

Jacksonville’s hit-and-run car culture
New study on dangers of tanning beds
A.R.T. at MOCA
Dr. Jason Lang, chairman of the Healthy Jacksonville Asthma Coalition

Wednesday

How local census workers are counting Jacksonville’s homeless
Real Sense Prosperity Campaign
Comedian Steve Solomon- “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m In Therapy”
Arts with TU’s Laura Capitano

Thursday

Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham- “America, the Owner’s Manual”
Preview of “The Vagina Monologues”
Artist Mackenzie Thorpe
Business with Wallet Doctor Ron Allen

Friday

Media roundtable Week in Review
Local author Genie James- previewing Valentine’s Day with “In the Mood Again”
St. Johns County Art Walk

Be Heard. Call (904) 549-2937 during the program or email with your comments and questions.

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Visit Melissa’s blog

First Coast Forum

A quarterly series of interactive community forums designed to address critical challenges facing Florida’s First Coast and to engage the community in resolving them. Each program brings First Coast business and community leaders together for discussion, and gives community members an opportunity to weigh in.

First Coast Forum: Charting Jacksonville’s Future

Aired January 28th at 8pm on WJCT-TV and WJCT 89.9FM.

WJCT’s First Coast Forum will examine various proposals now before the Charter Revision Commission, which meets once a decade to review Jacksonville’s charter (the City’s constitution) and decide whether any changes should be made. These recommendations are forwarded to the Jacksonville City Council, which must decide which ones to follow through on, and how they must go about making the changes. Among the recommendations now being bandied about: making the Duval County School Board appointed officials instead of elected ones, and changing the election cycles for city officials. The Commission is scheduled to make its final recommendations in February.

Panelists

Wyman Duggan, Chairman, Charter Revision Commission
Matt Corrigan, Political Science Professor, UNF
John Delaney, UNF President and former Mayor
Jerry Holland, Duval County Supervisor of Elections
Ron Littlepage, Florida Times-Union Columnist
Jim Crooks, Historian, Professor Emeritus at UNF
Brenda Priestly-Jackson, Duval County School Board Chair
Betty Holzendorf, former State Senator
Richard Clark, CC President

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Email questions and comments to or call (904) 358-6347 during the program.
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Florida Frontiers

Mondays from 6:30-7pm, beginning January 11

WJCT is pleased to air a very special weekly program celebrating the history and culture of the Sunshine State. Florida Frontiers, the weekly radio magazine of the Florida Historical Society, takes an in-depth look at the people, places and events that have shaped the State, and made Florida a unique and fascinating place to live. Join us on a journey that will introduce you to the Quilters of Eatonville, take you to the Old Custom House in Key West, and give you insight into the lives of such luminaries as Stetson Kennedy, Zora Neale Hurston, and Marjorie Kinna Rawlings.

Listen to programs online at myfloridahistory.org.

Perspectives

A quarterly series of 30-minute radio documentaries by the 89.9 FM News Team provide an in-depth look at topics of interest to the First Coast.

The Faces of Foreclosure

Aired Thursday, August 13 on 89.9 WJCT Public Radio
by Karen Feagins

An article in Forbes Magazine late last year predicted that Jacksonville will be the foreclosure capital of the United States in 2009. City leaders, determined not to let that prediction become a reality, are scrambling to find ways to help hurting homeowners. WJCT’s Karen Feagins talks with local experts about what factors contributed to the foreclosure crisis in Jacksonville and with families who are worried about losing their homes. This half-hour radio documentary will examine the impact of foreclosures on the larger community, and look at the legal and legislative fixes that may alleviate the problem.

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