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We Explore the Florida Governor's Executive Power

 DeSantis during a tour of Little Hickory Bay
Rachel Iacovone
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WGCU
DeSantis during a tour of Little Hickory Bay

Since his inauguration just two weeks ago, Governor Ron DeSantis is already making waves. Florida’s new governor has appointed three now state supreme court justices, unveileda new environmental agenda, and suspended the Broward County Sheriff and the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections. As many of these actions have been achieved through the issuance of executive orders, UCF political scientistAubrey Jewett, Ph.D.,joins the show to weigh in on the scope and limits of the governor's executive power.We'll also explore what the first weeks of the DeSantis administration may indicate about what to expect from Florida’s new governor in the coming years.

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
John Davis has been a full-time Reporter/Producer for WGCU since 2009. He is the local host for NPRââââ
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.