Each Friday, our media roundtable dives into the biggest stories of the week. Among our topics this week:<\/p>\n
Jacksonville officials are having a hard time confirming all of the \u201cwaste, fraud and abuse\u201d identified in a Florida DOGE audit. A vanishing hologram: The mayor\u2019s controversial airport video box is no more.\u00a0Duval schools scramble to find emergency contacts for students after ICE detains their parents.Florida drivers must now be English speakers under new licensing requirements that take effect Friday.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll talk about all that and take your calls, questions and comments on our Friday Week In Review. You can join the conversation on air at (904) 549-2937 or visit firstcoastconnect.org<\/a> to find all the ways to connect with us.<\/p>\n Guests:<\/p>\n Robin Lumb, former Jacksonville City Council memberMike Mendenhall, City Hall reporter and associate editor at Jacksonville TodayRiley Phillips, weekend anchor and reporter, First Coast NewsMegan Mallicoat, education reporter at Jacksonville Today’Lend Me a Soprano’<\/p>\n A gender inversion of a Broadway classic. Following the success of his Tony-award winning classic Lend Me a Tenor, comic playwright Ken Ludwig (also author of The Three Musketeers and Agatha Christie\u2019s Murder on the Orient Express) created a character reversal in which the women take the lead in a similarly madcap comedy. We meet the director and cast of Amelia Community Theatre<\/a>\u2019s production of Lend Me a Soprano.\u00a0<\/p>\n Guests:<\/p>\n Janet Hild, director of Lend Me A SopranoAmy Baker, actor playing Jo\u00a0\u00a0Regina Torres, actor playing Elena Firenzi\u00a0Carlos Semidei, actor playing Pasquale\u00a0<\/p>\n Topics and guests subject to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each Friday, our media roundtable dives into the biggest stories of the week. Among our topics this week:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-145215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}