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08/12/15: John Stinson; First Coast Speciality Crop Conference; Author Andrew Maraniss

Businessman John Stinson is taking on incumbent Atlantic Beach City Commissioner Maria Mark in this month's City Commission elections. We speak with Stinson about the issues he's focusing on in his campaign.

This weekend, the First Coast Specialty Crop Conference is coming to Jacksonville to provide practical skills for strengthening local agricultural communities. Terra Freeman, University of Florida's Duval County Small Farms Agent, joins us with more in this week's edition of our Going Green Segment.

And we speak with Andrew Maraniss, author of the bestselling biography "Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South." Wallace was the first African-American college basketball player in the Southeast Conference.  

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Sean Birch joined the WJCT team in late 2011 and was with the company until 2016.