Podcast Episodes

Episode 250: The Suwannee River

Season 6 Episode 250

A proposed home development in Alachua County threatens the Floridan Aquifer. 

John Quarterman is the Suwannee Riverkeeper working with a group of concerned citizens in north central Florida and south…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 249: 'Welcome to Florida' - the book!

Season 6 Episode 249

A peanut farmer wants to swindle choice gopher tortoise land out of state conservation protection under the guise of a land swap, and Florida officials seem open to the idea. Voice your opposition. 

C…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 248: Word of South

Season 6 Episode 248

Craig highlights the WORST bill working its way through the legislature this session. It's a "Christmas wish list" for developers and polluting industries.

Fernandina Beach vs. Rayonier.

Find you state…

Published on 5 months ago

Episode 247: Florida's Oldest Bar

Season 6 Episode 247

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials are again pursuing a black bear hunt for the state. Citizens don't want it, and the last one was a disaster. Read Craig's column and send y…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Episode 246: Longleaf Pine

Season 6 Episode 246

Craig wants America's most hated man, unelected shadow president Elon Musk, to keep his hands off our National Parks. (Resistance Rangers)

Longleaf pine once covered an area of over 90 million acres f…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 245: The Montbrook Fossil Site

Season 6 Episode 245

Alcoholic, womanizing, Islamophobe U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is also a climate denier. He has instructed the armed forces to ignore climate impacts and has demanded the Pentagon cut funding…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 244: Mullet

Season 6 Episode 244

A combination of increasing and increasingly devastating hurricanes along with skyrocketing property insurance prices have resulted in an amazing demographic event in Florida.

Our guest this week is M…

Published on 6 months ago

Episode 243: Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Season 6 Episode 243

Donald Trump's threatened tariffs would be another nail in the coffin for Florida's citrus industry.

You can support the "Welcome to Florida" podcast by becoming a $5 a month "patron" at www.patreon.c…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Episode 242: Operation Pedro Pan (Peter Pan)

Season 6 Episode 242

Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to open the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling, potentially endangering Florida's beaches and economy from the spills that inevitably follow drillin…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 241: Marineland

Season 6 Episode 241

The federal government in the closing days of the Biden Administration failed to secure a protection for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Stories like this can be found in our weekl…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago