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The podcast takes local political issues and explains why you should care about them. All politics are local and so that’s where we start. The goal is for people who are not familiar with the political process to show how politics affects everything around them. It is a political podcast for people that don’t really follow politics daily. You don’t need a degree to understand the issues we will talk about. Geared towards anyone that wants to understand politics a little bit more.

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Why you should care about Eastside Renewal with Will Brown?

October 18, 2022 • Obi Umunna. Esq. • Season 3 • Episode 2

This week we look at an attempt to renew the Eastside of Jacksonville with Will Brown of Jacksonville Today. We discuss why this area is important to Jacksonville becoming a first-class city. **Sound quality issues with Wifi we have fixed for future episodes bear with us**

Will Brown is a Report for America corps members focusing on race, poverty and inequality for Jacksonville Today.

He previously reported for the Jacksonville Business Journal. And before that, he spent more than a decade as a sports reporter at The St. Augustine Record, Victoria (Texas) Advocate and the Tallahassee Democrat.

Over his 15-year career, Brown has won awards for breaking news, social media and photography. And in 2020, he contributed photographs for WFSU News/Health News Florida’s national Murrow Award-winning series “Committed: How and Why Children Became the Fastest Growing Group Under Florida’s Baker Act.”