Friday’s First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross Media Roundtable discussed the top stories of the week, including:
- Three JEA bidders are suing to keep the dollar amounts of their offers secret.
- The city’s fight with the school board could be settled soon.
- Investors are buying two downtown First Baptist Church buildings.
- A celebration of the life was held Thursday for the late Mayor Jake Godbold.
Our guests were:
- Mike Mendenhall of the Jacksonville Daily Record;
- Radio Host Angela Spears of Angela Spears Communications;
- Shelton Hull of Folio Weekly;
- And Nate Monroe of The Florida Times-Union.
Craig Pittman
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Award-winning Journalist and Best-selling Author Craig Pittman has a new book out, Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther.
Pittman is an environmental reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, which is where he first started writing about the panthers. In this book, he dives into the sometimes-controversial history of the effort to save the elusive big cat.
He is the featured writer Florida Heritage Book Festival’s Literary Legends Dinner in St Augustine, Friday Feb. 21.
Amanda Brannon can be reached at newsteam@wjct.org, 904-358-6317.