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• Will NASA’s big rocket ever get off the ground? The Space Launch System, designed to take the Orion capsule into deep space, has been dogged by delays. Now there’s a suggestion that commercial space companies could be brought in to help the Orion program.
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• The Lake Mary High School community is in mourning after a 17 year old student took her own life on campus last week. We check in with pediatrician Dr. Candice Jones about how to talk to teens about suicide and mental health.
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• Intersection talks to former engineering test pilot, Dr. Clint Baylog about what’s next for the 737 Max, and what the grounding means for aircraft safety.
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• Opera Orlando is pairing Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with Stravinsky’s Pulcinella in collaboration with the Orlando Philharmonic and Orlando Phantasmagoria. Stage Director Octavio Cardenas and conductor Clinton Smith join Intersection for a conversation about how they are putting together this opera within an opera.
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• Is Tallahassee really the best place for Florida’s state capital? State Senator Kevin Rader wants to study the idea of moving the capital to Orlando, partly to make it easier to get to.
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• Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has been touring the country promoting his book “from the ground up”. “I haven’t decided whether I’m running or not, but what I’ve said is that I’m profoundly concerned about the direction of the country,” says Schultz, who says if he runs, it would be as a “centrist independent.”
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• Nerd Nite Orlando turns 6 this week. The monthly “thinking and drinking” event is designed to take learning beyond the classroom. Nerd Nite Orlando founder and host Ricardo Williams joins Intersection for a closer look at how this gathering satisfies a desire and need that everyone has to learn new, cool stuff.
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• A group of activists and historians has been working to recognize the victims of the Ocoee massacre on election day in 1920. The massacre wiped Ocoee’s African American community off the map, but the efforts of the Truth and Justice Project of Orange County aim to retell the history of that community.
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• Rent rates in Central Florida have continued to rise as wages have remained stagnant, inspiring statewide calls for more affordable housing.
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• Florida Democrats pushed back with their own agenda proposal after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ State of the State address. Trimmel Gomes, host of the political podcast The Rotunda, stops by Intersection to discuss the state of Florida politics under DeSantis.
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