Engage

Floridians in Haiti are evacuating and being taken to the Orlando Sanford International Airport. The Volusia County rideshare VoRide is expanding. Mike Schneider, author of Mickey and the Teamsters, discusses the history of unions at Disney. A pillar of Parramore, J Henry’s barbershop, is back open after being destroyed by a fire.

WMFE's Joe Mario Pedersen reports on Primary Day poll activity and Orange County Supervisor of Elections Glen Gilzean talks about his new role. We profile Florida schools in the NCAA March Madness tournaments and Orlando hosts 'Plogging for Pints' - a great way to keep fit and clean your community.

Reporter Amanda Rabines joins us Engage to unpack her Orlando Sentinel investigation into the collapse of the OnePULSE Foundation. Carlos Guillermo Smith with Equality Florida shares what he considers successes this legislative session following a legal settlement in the Parental Rights in Education law. There are disparities in diagnosis of dementia. Math Professor Allen Pelley unravels the myste...

Orlando is expanding an anti-violence program that has demonstrated success in preventing firearm deaths. Also, mangroves are a legally protected ecosystem, we'll look at preservation efforts in Florida. Opera del Sol brings Scalia/Ginsburg to the Pugh Theater and Engage revisits a historic moment in baseball.

HCA Healthcare hospital nurses in Osceola and Sanford rally for better staffing levels. The Executive Director of the Haitian American Art Network in Orlando fears for family living in the Caribbean country under a state of emergency. Hear predictions for sargassum blooms this summer and some ideas about what to do with the smelly stuff that could benefit coastal communities. OneBlood needs more A...

The Executive Director of Apopka's Hope CommUnity Center discusses the impact of the state’s legislature move to ban community IDs used by many undocumented residents. A local researcher studies the political engagement of Black students at Florida's HBCUs. An Orlando tree that pre-dates the Revolutionary War is getting cloned. There are plans to build a portable resilience hub to use before or af...

An Orlando physician and Sickle Cell patient shares the devastating effects of the disease and optimism for the Florida bill sponsored by Representative Kelly Skidmore that allocates funding for research and treatment. A Florida author discusses the history of organized crime in the Sunshine State. After Brittany Jones’ fiancé, a Florida firefighter, died while on a rescue call, she wrote a childr...