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Discussing the Week’s Biggest News Stories with our Roundtable of Top Local Journalists The Cummer Museum & Garden/Garden Conservancy Open Days Program Intuition Ale Work’s New Smoke IPA Celebrating Downtown Salvador Dali Exhibit at Avondale Artworks [content_module id=”first-coast-connect-tune” no_thumb=”1″ no_title=”1″ /]

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The Controversy Around New Legislation for Food Trucks in Jacksonville 2014 Minority Chef Summit St. Augustine Orchestra Concert Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act  Local Book Blogger Stacey Goldring and the First Coast Connect Book Club Around Town with Kerry Speckman Image credit: Credit Jacksonville Food Trucks / Facebook [content_module id=”first-coast-connect-tune” no_thumb=”1″ no_title=”1″ /]

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Studio 5 Sessions : Meredith Rae Woodard “Lucky I Found You”

Meredith Rae Woodard performs “Lucky I Found You”  for Studio 5 Sessions “In the Green Room” prior to her appearance on WJCT 89.9’s First Coast Connect. Meredith Rae Woodard grew up singing Joni Mitchell songs with her mother in their dining room in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her love of performance and music led her to musical theater productions — the love of her …

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Studio 5 Sessions : Meredith Rae Woodard “Best Thing”

Meredith Rae Woodard performs “Best Thing” for Studio 5 Sessions “In the Green Room” prior to her appearance on WJCT 89.9’s First Coast Connect. Meredith Rae Woodard grew up singing Joni Mitchell songs with her mother in their dining room in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her love of performance and music led her to musical theater productions — the love of her …

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Chris Hand, Chief of Staff for Mayor Alvin Brown, on the Pension Reform Plan Florida Releases Controversial Scores on Teacher Effectiveness to the Florida Times-Union Tech Tuesday: River Region Human Services Using Social Media to Prevent Substance Abuse One Spark Creator Musician Meredith Rae Woodward [content_module id=”first-coast-connect-tune” no_thumb=”1″ no_title=”1″ /]

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Results of a New UNF Poll on the City’s Pension Problems, Local Politicians’ Approval Ratings and More First Coast Success Profiles James Winston Jewish Family & Community Services Executive Director Colleen Rodriguez The Jacksonville Home & Patio Show First Coast Sports Wrap Up with Cole Pepper Image credit: University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab [content_module id=”first-coast-connect-tune” no_thumb=”1″ no_title=”1″ /]

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Discussing the Week’s Biggest News Stories with Our Roundtable of Local Journalists Greenscape of Jacksonville’s 27th Annual Flowering Tree Sale Northeast Florida Scottish Highland Games The Get Right Band [content_module id=”first-coast-connect-tune” no_thumb=”1″ no_title=”1″ /]

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Discussing the Impact of the Dunn Trial After One Juror Speaks Out The Growth of Nontraditional Funerals Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Evan Osnos on the China-American Paradox PBS’s Many Rivers to Cross  Marathon on WJCT-TV Around Town with Kerry Speckman Image credit: ABC News [content_module id=”first-coast-connect-tune” no_thumb=”1″ no_title=”1″ /]

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America’s Opiate/Heroin Epidemic Going Green Series: The No Meat March Local Bestselling 13-Year-Old Juvenile Author Jake Marcionette, Just Jake   War Horse at the Times-Union Center  [content_module id=”first-coast-connect-tune” no_thumb=”1″ no_title=”1″ /]

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Florida Times-Union Columnist Mark Woods on the Michael Dunn Trial The 26.2 with Donna Marathon Author Danny Ellis, The Boy At the Gate, Appearing at the Amelia Island Book Festival Tech Tuesday: The Comcast/Time Warner Merger Image Credit: News 4 Jax

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Reaction to the Michael Dunn Verdict Author T.D. Allman, Revelations of America Operation: Adopt Event First Coast Sports Wrap Up with Cole Pepper

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Media Roundtable Week in Review Actor/Musician Ben Vereen, Jazz on The Bridge The Winners of the 4th Annual Money Pages Ultimate Wedding Giveaway Ritz Chamber Players’ “Road to Freedom” Concert

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The Latest in the Michael Dunn Trial Human Trafficking Survivor and Activist Telisia Espinosa Actor Richard Karn, Alhambra Theatre’s “I Ought to Be in Pictures”

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Analysis of the Michael Dunn Trial After Dunn’s Testimony on Tuesday Rethreaded’s Mukti Freedom Fundraiser Major League Soccer Game at EverBank Field – NY Red Bulls vs. Philly Union Douglas Anderson School of the Arts’ “Extravaganza” Event

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Local Reaction to the Justice Department’s New Policy Regarding Same-Sex Marriages 2014 Florida International Summit at UNF – “Global Health and Medical Diplomacy: Haiti and Florida” Previewing One Spark Tech Tuesday: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two

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Daughter of the Holocaust

Irene Jaffa was born in a displaced persons’ camp in Germany following World War II. Her parents, Polish Jews, survived the war through an incredible series of dangerous and heartbreaking episodes. In “Daughter of the Holocaust,” Irene talks about her family history and speaks passionately about the post-traumatic impact, not only on the survivors, but on the survivors’ children, as …

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Updates in the Michael Dunn Trial Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Guest Conductor André Raphel Electro Lounge Host David Luckin on WJCT’s 3X5 Film Festival First Coast Sports Wrap Up with Cole Pepper

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First Coast Connect On The Go! Live from Jacksonville University’s Marine Science Research Institute JU President Tim Cost and Student Association President Will Baxley The Marine Science Research Institute’s New “Floating Classroom” Bestselling Author David Baldacci, Appearing at the Amelia Island Book Festival New Research on How Pilots Communicate in Noisy Conditions JU’s Music Business Program

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Reactions to CVS’s Decision to Stop Selling Tobacco Products National Black AIDS Awareness Day Special Olympics Florida “The Art of an Athlete” Photography Historian Wayne Wood on the Life & Work of Courtenay Hunt Around Town with Kerry Speckman

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The “When Faith Works: Christian Practice and Successful Desistance from Crime” Study Postpartum Depression Counseling Northwestern University Football Players File Petition for Official College Athlete Union JT Townsend Checkpoint Challenge

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Human Trafficking Awareness Month and the “Freedom JAX” Campaign Haskell Company CEO Steve Halverson on Jacksonville’s Pension Problems Sports Technologies LLC’s Concussion Prevention Helmet Tech Tuesday: Contributor Joey Marchy on Facebook’s 10th Anniversary and Their New “Paper” App