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Vote Already! Podcast, FiveThirtyEight Podcast, George Barley Water Prize & Miami Marlins Statue

MARICE COHN BAND
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Miami Herald
Red Grooms was commissioned by Miami-Dade's Art in Public Places to create this design home-run sculpture called "Homer," a mechanized artwork that activates when the Marlins hit a home run in their county-owned ballpark.

WLRN has a new podcast, “Vote, Already!,” a guide to the 2018 Florida midterm ballot. The podcast covers a number of key amendments and local races. WLRN's digital director Teresa Frontado, editorial director Alicia Zuckerman and reporter Daniel Rivero joined Sundial to talk about the new podcast. 

How much stake should we put in the polls this election day? The website and podcast "FiveThirtyEight,"started by statistician and political analyst Nate Silver, has built the model for polling projections in national and statewide elections. Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight's election analyst joined Sundial to talk about what the polling projections suggest in the key Florida Senate, gubernatorial and congressional races.

The George Barley Water Prize, a $10 million award started by the Everglades Foundation to address toxic algae blooms through new technologies, recently announced the four finalists for the award. One of them is   Green Water Solutions based in Wellington, Florida. The CEO of the company, Frank Jochem, and the director of the George Barley Water Prize, Loren Parra,  joined Sundial to talk about how the technology works and why it's so critical not just for algal blooms in Florida but around the world.

The iconic and colorful mechanical statue“Homer” that’s graced the Miami Marlins stadium for years has been taken out of the facilities, according to unofficial reports. Derek Jeter, the new Marlins team owner, has long been opposed to the Homer statue and has lobbied the board to relocate it. The Miami Herald’s Doug Hanks joined Sundial to explain the complicated issues surrounding public art and what no “Homer” means for the county.