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• Plans are moving ahead with a memorial and museum at the site of the Pulse nightclub. Carlos Guillermo Smith, Christopher Cuevas and Ken Foote join Intersection to discusses the importance of the Pulse nightclub memorial for the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and talk about how other cities in the US have remembered the victims of tragedies.
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• There’s a CBD boom happening in the U.S. — and Florida medical marijuana companies are getting in on it.
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• Florida Today Government Editor Dave Berman and political analysts Frank Torres and Dick Batchelor join Intersection for closer look at the issues that got Central Floridians to the polls for Tuesday’s elections.
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• Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ditch the weekly supermarket shopping trip and live off the land? We talk to environmental activist Rob Greenfield about his year long experiment foraging in Orlando and learn some surprising facts about the edible plants you can find in city parks.
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• Opera Orlando kicks off its season this weekend with a version of Marriage of Figaro that borrows some visual cues from Downton Abbey.
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• A new report commissioned by Project Opioid looked at people affected by the opioid crisis in Central Florida, finding an increase in the number of non- fatal overdoses coming into emergency rooms.
Still, healthcare attorney Harry Nelson who is the author of the book United States of Opioids, says this community is doing some things right in confronting the problem.
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• Aretha Simons says the city of Orlando needs new leadership. Simons is a businesswoman challenging incumbent Buddy Dyer in the mayoral election. Simons joins Intersection to talk about her priorities for Orlando, including improving the supply of affordable housing and better mass transit.
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