Our panel of journalists weighs in on the week’s top headlines, including:
- A Category 4 “monster,” Hurricane Helene, comes ashore.
- The Jacksonville City Council approves a nearly $2 billion budget.
- City lawmakers unanimously approve spending $25,000 for the supervisor of elections to contact inactive voters facing removal from the voter rolls.
- Weapons and student arrests continue to paralyze local schools.
Guests:
- David Bauerlein, metro reporter at the Florida Times-Union.
- Tricia Booker, author, former reporter and journalism professor at the University of North Florida.
- Will Brown, race and poverty reporter at Jacksonville Today.
- Dan Scanlan, reporter at WJCT News.
Then, the Center for International Education teams up with the Diplomacy Lab at Florida State College at Jacksonville to enhance students’ global perspective by sending them abroad.
Guests:
- Cindy Robinson, associate director of the Center for International Education, conference organizer and host.
- Lourdes Norman-McKay, professor of biological sciences, director of FSCJ’s Diplomacy Lab Program.