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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Cat advocates want St. Johns County to help neuter strays. Officials there want no part. -
The debate over back-in vs. pull-in parking has become a subject of controversy, internet currency and, in some places, urban policy -
The inaugural “State of the Watershed” offers an Earth Day celebration of the St. Johns River. -
State lawmakers still can’t reach a budget deal, and the JEA investigation expands to include communications about a former mayor’s lobbying firm. -
A mitigation expert explains how a criminal’s life story affects the death penalty. -
Two historians remember the pioneering Black aviator on the centenary of her death during a Jacksonville air show. -
From an expanding JEA investigation to campaign plans, we ask Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan about the latest headlines — and take your calls and questions -
A state budget decision looms over the future of the once-thriving Black neighborhood of West Lewisville. -
Jax taxpayers getting “fleeced”; Duval Schools responds to new pressures to ban books -
Anthropologist Judith Bense on America’s oldest colony; brewery owner Ben Davis on the end of an era
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