Jacki Levine News Today

The theme of this year’s 5th Avenue Arts Festival will be “Continued Community Growth.” The festival will be held Saturday-Sunday in Gainesville.

“Tell Me About It” is a weekly audio storytelling series hosted by Sue Wagner, WUFT community relations coordinator, focusing on events, organizations and research projects by those that helped create them and those that have benefited.

On tonight’s program: Governor DeSantis rolls out a state budget that’s smaller than this year’s!; Florida’s House Speaker looks ahead to the upcoming lawmaking session; The pressure is building for the wife of Florida’s Republican Party chair to step down from her school board job; Academic freedom is becoming a flashpoint on Florida’s public campuses; It seems a contract dispute between Tallahassee firefighters and the city that employs could have impacts far beyond the Capital Cit...

Dolly Parton, Jose Andres, Bill Watterson and more have new books. And Michelle Obama reads the audiobook “Where the Wild Things Are.”