Julie Glenn
News Director, Gulf Coast Live Host(1971 - 2022)
Julie Glenn joined WGCU in 2016 and worked in many different roles — reporter, program host and podcast creator. In 2017 she agreed to step up as interim news director to lead the station’s award-winning coverage of Hurricane Irma. She was promoted into the job permanently in 2018. She joined the board of the Public Media Journalists Association that same year and served the full two year term. Her WGCU family misses her terribly.
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Several dozen protestors assembled in front of the Collier County Government Center seeking justice for Nicolas Morales-Besanilla, a single father and farmworker who was killed during a mental health episode. -
Gabby Petito was reported missing by her family in New Jersey after not returning with her fiancé and van from several months visiting west coast national parks. -
A power outage caused the city water plant's pressure levels to drop below normal, triggering the precautionary boil order. -
Former Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary and former state Chief Resiliency officer Noah Valenstein has been named the first presidential fellow in water policy at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Water School. We’ll talk with Valenstein about his time in state government and his future plans for the Water School. -
Lee Health sees a surge in COVID-19 admissions, adding more than 200 new patients since Friday. Currently a record-setting 557 COVID-19 patients are in the system's hospitals. -
A Fort Myers ordinance criminalizing people who ask for charity on streets and sidewalks was determined to be unconstitutional by Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal. -
Bentonville, Arkansas and Austin, Texas will be easier to fly to soon. -
As students get ready to go back to school, the Delta variant of the Coronavirus has some parents nervous about sending their ineligible-for-vaccine kids into classrooms where Gov. Ron DeSantis had forbidden mask mandates. -
On Saturday, Florida reported the highest single-day number of new COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic. On Sunday, Florida had the highest single-day number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients since the beginning of the pandemic.Governor Ron DeSantis, Friday announced plans for a new executive order barring schools from requiring mask-wearing.Sarasota Memorial Hospital is no long allowing visitors and NCH announced Friday it will require all staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 16.Manatee County officials announced another confirmed COVID-19 death among county staff. An outbreak in June forced the closure of the Manatee County Administration building.A nationwide moratorium on evictions that was put in place amid the pandemic expired Sunday, July 31, and the AP reports, Florida received $870 million in federal funds to help renters who've struggled to keep up with rent payments, but has only distributed 2% of that money. -
The citrus industry in Florida has been under assault by a psyllid that has spread the greening disease through orange groves since the ’90s, decimating yields and killing businesses. Researchers are now looking at older varieties for resilience in the face of this disease.
