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Orlando Sentinel Conversations

May 30, 2018

Orlando Sentinel reporter Kate Santich talks with Steven Arauz, who decided to become a foster dad when he was 26 and single, and Glen Casel, CEO of the nonprofit Community Based Care of Central Florida, who is leading the effort to recruit single parents and same-sex couples to fill a critical need for foster...


May 24, 2018

Orlando Sentinel reporter Steve Hudak talks with Mike Orlando, of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, about efforts to ensure people and bears coexist safely. They discuss bears in SUVs, bluff charges, the impact of "bear-wise" communities and if there are plans for another bear hunt.

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May 22, 2018

Orlando Sentinel health reporter Naseem Miller talks with Dr. Mark Socinski, the executive medical director of the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, about immunotherapy and what these groundbreaking drugs mean in the battle against cancer.

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May 17, 2018

Orlando Sentinel TV writer Hal Boedeker talks with Maitland author James Ponti about winning big at 'murder prom' with Edgar Award, giving back to the Central Florida community, what’s next for character Florian Bates and other books on the horizon.

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May 15, 2018

Stefano Steenbakkers Betancourt was 17 when he was murdered in an attempted carjacking in Dorado, Puerto Rico. For the past five years, his mother, Zorimar Betancourt, has been on a mission to reunite with the five people who received Stefano’s organs. That journey brought her to Central Florida to find the fifth, and...