Efforts To Revitalize South Florida Municipalities

By Joseph Cooper,

Published June 30, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT

06/30/16 - Thursday’s Topical Currents looks at efforts to revitalize South Florida municipalities--how enhancement plans are conceived, and how they’re implemented.

Why do some areas turn blight into vigor, while others languish? Our guests are Kim Briesemeister and Christopher Brown authors of, "Reinventing Your City Hardcover."

And more. Linda Gassenheimer’s Food & Dining checks out new area Middle-Eastern food offerings with two restaurant owners.

That’s Topical Currents . . . Thursday at 1pm.

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WLRN Radio's Joseph Cooper says producing and hosting Topical Currents is the most rewarding experience of his long radio career, which began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the 1970s.

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Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.

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