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Ohio Democrat renounces vote on 'torture bill' Nelson silent listen
06/19/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Ohio Freshman Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown confessed yesterday that he had made a mistake when he voted for The Military Commission Act last fall – also known as the Torture Bill. The bill also did away with habeus corpus for detainees.
Brown was running against GOP incumbent Mike DeWine in a tight race for Senate- a race ultimately won by The Democrat . Considered one of the most progressive members of Congress, Brown stunned observers in Ohio and across the country with that vote....
Be the first to commentCity & County officials accuse Governor Crist of putting out false info regarding property taxes
06/19/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
City and county government officials are accusing Governor Charlie Crist of deliberately putting out false information in an effort to win property tax cuts. Crist has said that local governments are fighting property tax cuts even when they sit atop $9 billion dollars in reserves. But the Brevard County based newspaper Florida Today quotes some City Managers as saying that reports that the governor's "reserves" are grossly inflated and lump general fund reserves from unspent property taxe...
Be the first to commentLABOR ACTTIVISTS DISCUSS THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT
06/19/07 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Today, June 19th, local workers, labor and community leaders, will gather to call for support of the Employee Free Choice Act -- legislation that would make it more difficult for employers to thwart workers’ efforts to form unions to bargain for better wages and benefits. Local labor and community leaders and workers will gather for a rally at Verizon Wireless, located at 6550 W. Hillsborough Avenue, Tampa.
Approved by the House in March and scheduled for debate in the Senate on Monday, ...
Be the first to commentBrooker Creek Preserve saved from ball fields?
06/19/07 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Pinellas County has promised a group called East Lake Youth Sports Association, or ELYSA, that several sports fields would be built within Brooker Creek Preserve, but citizens are fighting that plan. This morning Pinellas County Government and Pinellas County School Board held a press conference to announce what may be a solution to this problem. The conference was held at the site of an alternative site for the ballfields, -- a vacant lot owned by the School Board at the southeast corn...
Be the first to commentsustainable living
06/18/07Radioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Guest were Annie Warmke with Bluerock station in OH, and Sarah Pope in studio. The topic was the Weston A. Price Foundation, and his studies of whole foods and health. Also, we had a UCF student talk about his raw food diet, and his long distance running.
Be the first to commentJeff Gerth on Hillary Part II
06/18/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday
Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta are the co-authors of the new biography on Hilary Rodham Clinton, called “Her Way”.
In the 2nd part of our interview, we spoke with Jeff Gerth, whose own reporting on the Clintons in the past while working for the New York Times has been the subject of extensive criticism – particularly by the media watchdog group Media Matters.
WMNF spoke with Jeff Gerth about Senator Clinton’s most important vote in the Senate so far – when she voted to give authorizatio...
Be the first to commentTampa Bay Water rejects Swiftmud proposal to divert water to lower Hillsborough
06/18/07 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tampa Bay Water, water
Today the Board of Directors of Tampa Bay Water met at their headquarters in Clearwater to discuss a plan to divert water from the Tampa Bypass Canal to the lower Hillsborough River. The plan was proposed by the Southwest Florida Water Management District, or Swiftmud, in order to improve the health of the River and to meet requirements for minimum water flow and levels. But as WMNF’s Seán Kinane reports, the plan met with opposition from Tampa Bay Water and was not implemented.
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Be the first to commentClam Bayou
06/18/07 Buddy BakerWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
This past weekend's weather was warm and clear. But the long range forecast for the enviroment seemed even sunnier, if the turnout at two Pinellas County events was a barometer. Buddy Baker reports.
(Sounds of walking in muck)
The suck of muck against boots greeted several hundred volunteers Saturday morjning who ventured into the mangrove swamps of Clam Bayou in the first large scale cleanup of the waterway ever held.
On foot, and in canoes and kayaks, a...
Be the first to commentPro-Troop rally fizzles in Tampa
06/18/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Pro-Iraq War Rally draws few in Tampa
Anti-war activists say they support the troops in Iraq, and therefore want them to come home safely. But several men who spoke at a pro-Iraq war rally over the weekend in Tampa say that’s NOT the type of support the troops are looking
Organizers assembled around 300 chairs for the morning rally in Tampa’s downtown Joe Chilura Park Saturday morning . But only between 50 to 60 people came out in the humid morning .
(roll tape#1 o.q.”quite frank...
Be the first to commentFlorida Immigrant Coalition heads to Washington
06/18/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
3 busloads of Florida Immigrants arrived this afternoon in Washington D.C., where the 150 or so of those plan to march in front of the White House tomorrow in support of comprehensive Immigration Reform.
Hope Bastian is a spokesperson for the Florida Immigrant Coalition, which had buses leave from both Miami and Clearwater on Sunday (roll tape#1 o.q.”
After attending a prayer service tomorrow, the group plans to march to the Whtie House and then later meet individually with Florida law...
Be the first to commentMike Jones Interview Part II: The Fall of Ted Haggard listen
06/15/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Ted Haggard was the founder and pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And he was the leadser of the National Association of Evangelicals - until November of last year, when he resigned and was removed from his leadership positions after allegations of gay sex and drug abuse were made by the man by the name of Mike Jones.
Initially, Haggard denied even knowing Jones, but as a media investigation proceeded he acknowledged that some allegations , such as his purchase o...
Be the first to commentReaction to Florida Property Tax Cut Plan listen
06/15/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Less than 24 hours after the Florida Legislature passed a tax reform package that will bring some tax relief to homeowners next year, Republicans are hailing the move, while Democrats are bashing it.
The Tax cut – originally estimated to be over 31 and a half million dollars, but now scaled down to 24 billion, will reduce local-government revenues anywhere from 3 percent to 9 percent and limit future growth to population plus household income.
And it will allow citizens next January to ...
Be the first to commentJeff Gerth on Hilary Clinton Part I listen
06/15/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Hilary Clinton is already one of the most scrutinized people in the world, much less of those running for President.
The former first lady and now New York Senator continues to hold a double digit lead in national polls for the Democratic nomination.
Now she’s the subject of 2 new biographies, both of which were published last week.
One is by legendary journalist Carl Bernstein – the other, “Her Way” is written by New York Times reporter Don Van Natta and former Times reporter Jeff...
Be the first to commentOne Economist says Property Tax bill helps those not suffering
06/14/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
The Florida Legislature is moving toward placing an amendment before voters next January asking them to give up their popular Save Our Homes tax cap in exchange for a super-sized homestead exemption. The Senate voted unanimously today to put the question to voters in January, even though Democrats complained bitterly it could force massive layoffs in classroom and law enforcement. The House did likewise, setting up final votes later today in that chamber on a total tax package approaching ...
Be the first to commentTampa City Council discusses making city "WI-FI' listen
06/14/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
The Tampa City Council today supported a motion to look at providing wireless internet access to certain parts of Tampa.
The request is a scaled down version of providing free Wi-Fi to the entire city, which is what the city’s director of technology and innovation, James Buckner, had been investigating
A municipal WI-FI network works through low power radio transceivers called ‘access points’ or ‘hotspots’, that can be hung from utility poles or installed all over a city. They link a ...
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