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Your spot for real, daily conversations. Where neighbors become storytellers, newsmakers explain why and how changes happen and where locals — natives to the area and newcomers — discover and delight in the community they share.

Episodes

25 years later: How 9/11 changed the country, the skies and the future

As cyclosporiasis wanes, does lettuce still make you nervous? And where are the hurricanes?

The Clancy trial and understanding postpartum psychosis, plus inside the art of cosplay

Why cats are crowding shelters, and when environmental worry overwhelms

The Rays’ next steps, Hope Florida’s money trail, and an alternate Haslam’s plan

Flock critics share their concerns, and earthquake help for Colombia and Venezuela

Wanted: a new generation of truck drivers. And every generation gets an ‘Odyssey’

Florida’s shadowy immigration database, and remembering the Buffalo Soldiers

A county rethinks park funding, the appeal of going old-school, the latest on sloth deaths

A school board’s partisan pendulum swings, and multitasking food trucks

Scrubbing climate science from textbooks, and Tampa Theatre turns back the clock

Breaking down primary night's winners and losers, and Hillsborough schools get an A

Class acts: Rethinking school success for teens under stress, and a head start in hospitality

Vindman challenges political headwinds, and USF nursing school's major expansion

Spotting Big Tech and AI in local politics. Also, a college turns trash into treasure

Why the 'Flock Blocker' opposes these cameras, and an iconic game room pulls the plug

A new identity for a longtime Tampa shopping mecca, and get ready for 813 Day

Building a ballpark while solving an infrastructure dilemma, and Florida oranges show some juice

Breaking down what’s new for the school year, and improv takes center stage in Ybor

Challenges facing Florida’s corrections system: At the top and inside the walls