On Friday’s episode of First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross, our Media Roundtable discussed some of the top stories impacting Northeast Florida this week, including:
- A lawsuit has been filed against the Republican National Convention coming to Jacksonville due to concerns of spreading COVID-19.
- There is confusion and anxiety over back to school plans in Florida, after Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said schools must be open five days a week when kids go back to class next month.
- St. Johns County Commissioner Paul Waldron is hospitalized and in critical condition because of the coronavirus.
- The names of many of the businesses in Jacksonville that have received money through the Paycheck Protection Program has now been released.
Related: Local, State, And National Coronavirus Coverage
Our guests were:
- Dan Scanlan, Florida-Times Union
- Shelton Hull, Freelance Writer
- Tim Gibbons, Jacksonville Business Journal
THINK
One of the new programs being aired on WJCT 89.9 FM starting Monday is THINK. The program offers stations an hour of deep conversation involving groundbreaking authors, journalists, politicians, scientists, artists and innovators from across the globe. We were joined by acclaimed journalist and host of THINK, Krys Boyd, who shared with us a preview of the program.
Denetra Lee can be reached at newsteam@wjct.org
