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We Answer Listener Questions About South Florida Water Issues

Algae Bloom at the Alva Boat Ramp on June 25, 2018
TOM JAMES - WWW.PELICANMEDIA.TV
Algae Bloom at the Alva Boat Ramp on June 25, 2018

As Southwest Florida continues to face a persistent red tide bloom that’s devastating marine wildlife, and a severe blue-green algae bloom in the Caloosahatchee River and estuary that's being fed by polluted freshwater being released from Lake Okeechobee, we’re opening the phones for listener questions about the many factors that have led to these environmental crises. 

During Gulf Coast Live on Wednesday, August 15th Julie Glenn will be joined by Rae Ann Wessell, Natural Resource Policy Director for the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation, and News Press Evironmental Reporter Amy Bennett Williams, to field calls and comments from social media. What are your questions about our water woes, the history behind them, and the possible ways forward? Or what would you propose as possible solutions? 

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.