First Coast Connect
Weekdays LIVE 9 a.m., Rebroadcast 8 p.m. and 1 a.m.
First Coast Connect is an hour-long call-in program that features local newsmakers, civic and community leaders, artists and people planning a variety of events across Northeast Florida, along with a roundtable of local media personalities and civic leaders each Friday.
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From tax revenue shocks to slowdowns at a local EV factory, we take the city’s fiscal pulse in our monthly Ask the Mayor segment. -
From the future of a downtown Publix to his plans for politically diverse leadership, we sit down with the incoming council leader ahead of his year at the helm -
Erin Brockovich versus data centers; local governments grapple with dire tax cut potentialities. -
A man accused of killing father of four Jared Bridegan implicates his wife in a recently released jail conversation. -
From a spike in alcohol use during pregnancy to what we’re learning from hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks, we discuss the latest medical headlines. -
The cancellation of federally funded medical studies is affecting lives and families on the First Coast. -
Following Friday’s legislative approval of the state budget, we get granular-level analysis of the winners, losers and appropriation oddities in the ‘26-’27 spending plan. -
It’s the week’s top headlines, from accusations of City Council bullying to the governor's plan to end property taxes for most homesteaded properties. -
Surrounded by superstores, having lost its primary golf anchors, the state of World Golf Village is like nothing its original residents imagined. -
From the supremacy of podcasting to an entire book devoted to sentence diagramming, the most precise large language model is still human.
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First Coast Connect is sponsored in part by Baptist Health and North Florida TPO.