Episode 271: WSLR News Fri., July 19, 2024: Group seeks to stop change to Venice elections; candidate forums; the end of the Sarasota County business tax

Activists and former officials formed a non-partisan group to fight a change in the way elections are run in the City of Venice. That's not the only grassroots response to controversial policies coming out of Venice, as Ramon Lopez reports. Next: Two candidate forums - one for City of Sarasota candidates, one for Sarasota school board candidates - played out in front of overflow crowds in the last 48 hours. We have the details. Then: Sarasota County commissioners ended a tax that many of those paying it actually wanted to keep. Tyler Oldano has that story.