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First Coast Connect
Weekdays LIVE at 9 a.m.; Rebroadcast at 8 p.m.

First Coast Connect is an hour-long call-in program that features local newsmakers, civic and community leaders, arts, activities across Jacksonville and Northeast Florida, along with spot news features and a weekly roundtable of local journalists.

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Latest Episodes
  • A School Board meeting offers some ugly lessons and a slimmed-down incentives package makes it through City Council
  • A popular three-credit class offers University of North Florida students a palliative for cultural toxicity.
  • A new photo history by author and historian Wayne Wood celebrates the city’s most elegant, optimistic and creative structures.
  • From Amendment 3's effects to leadership turmoil at the city's independent agencies, we discuss the latest city news with Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan
  • A new investigation digs into “the curious case of the fake Florida newsroom” and the rise of AI reporters.
  • Jacksonville's city election cycle begins, and Downtown projects may bear the early brunt of Amendment 3.
  • Local law enforcement credits interagency cooperation and new crime fighting strategies for a historic decline in homicides.
  • Election Day predictions vs. Election Day realities: Expert analysis on what went right and what the polls got wrong.
  • With nearly 40% of votes cast in Florida, the outcome will depend on Tuesday's turnout.
  • A record pace of convictions in three local cold cases, some decades old, offers long-awaited relief to victims’ family members.