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Pecha Kucha: Envisioning a better Tampa Bay listen
11/08/10 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: light rail, tampa bay history center, pecha kucha, transit, gardening
Last Friday night local innovators shared some of their latest big ideas for transforming Tampa into a better city. This was the 8th time that the event, called Pecha Kucha, came to the Tampa Bay Area. At the Tampa Bay History Center, entrepreneurs, political candidates and young advocates for social justice attempted to make history with their visions to improve the Bay Area.
Architect Kenneth Cowart started this loca...
Be the first to commentBike Bash and Cure on Wheels Promote Safe Bike Riding in Tampa Bay listen
11/08/10 Sarah CurranWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
You never forget how to ride a bike.
Whether people were getting on a bike for the first time in a while or using their everyday transportation hundreds showed up to support one to the area’s most popular sports, Bike riding.
“Well, we want to energize people about bicycling in the Tampa Bay it is a great lifestyle its healthy for you, great transportation and we need an event to kinda get people juiced up about cycling.”
The fifth annual bike bash gave resident an opportunity ...
Be the first to commentDerrick Jensen on Tea Party victories listen
11/08/10 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Derrick Jensen, Tea Party, 2010 election
The results of last week's mid-term elections have been described as a Tea Party "tidal wave" by pundits and Republican supporters. Yet, author, social critic, and environmental activist Derrick Jensen sees the rise of the movement as a predictable phenomenon that happens when capitalism comes up against it's ecological limits. WMNF's Kelly Benjamin spoke with Derrick Jensen on how scapegoating and fear came to dominate the national dialogue rather than deep a...
7 commentsHomeless advocates critical of proposed shelter listen
11/08/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Homelessness, St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Bruce Wright
Pinellas County, especially St. Petersburg, isn’t known for taking extra humanitarian measures when it comes to the area’s large homeless population. A new shelter city and county officials are proposing may dispel – or reinforce – St. Pete’s anti-homeless reputation.
Officials in Pinellas County’s Homeless Leadership Network are calling the facility a courtyard. It would provide beds, showers, bathrooms, a host of services, and food – though they’re not yet sure whether the meals would be...
1 commentsDr. Christian Northrup - advocate for women's health
11/06/10 mary glenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Tags: women's issues, women's health, health
Dr. Christian Northrup, M.D., has been a leading advocate for women's health for over 30 years. She is especially involved in giving women the information and knowledge to empower them in their medical decisions. Dr. Northrup feels that women would be better served if October was devoted to breast health rather than breast cancer. Her book Women's Bodies; Women's Wisdom is considered by many women to be one of the most useful and informative repositories of women's health. What do you thi...
Be the first to commentElection postmortem with Alternet editor
11/06/10 mary glenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Tags: 2010 election, tea party, AlterNet, Adele Stan, women's issues
Adele Stan is AlterNet's Washington Bureau chief. She is the co-editor of Dangerous Brew: Exposing the Tea Party's Agenda to Take Over America.
Adele has been observing and writing about the ramifications of religion and conservatism for years. She gave a post-mortem summary of her interpretation of the recent election. Did any of us Floridians realize that Florida is considered "ground zero" of the tea party movement?
3 commentsElementary School in Haiti
11/06/10 mary glenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Tags: Haiti
Liliane Stransky, the founder of Step By Step Foundation who just opened the Tipa Tipa Elementary School in Lahaie, Haiti for 596 children talked to us as Hurricane Tomas was striking the area. She talked of her concerns for the children and their families. She also discussed the recent cholera outbreak and her organizations efforts to help the people. Tipa in Creole means step-thus step by step Liliane hopes to go forward and continue to help particular...
2 commentsPeace Walkers plan walk in Tampa listen
11/05/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
A group is in Tampa this week as part of their thirteen-month walk for peace across the country. They will be walking tomorrow in South Tampa beginning at Bayshore and South Howard at 1 p.m. Audri Scott Williams is one of the peace walkers.
Be the first to commentPolitical experts reflect on election, predict what's next listen
11/04/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida politics, 2010 elections, Rick Scott, Alex Sink, Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Susan McManus, USF, Adam Smith, St. Petersburg Times
Democrats everywhere are experiencing a massive election hangover, one that’s especially painful in Florida. Now they’re picking up the pieces. Two key political analysts were in St. Petersburg teasing out the many things that made the election season that concluded Tuesday such a windfall for the GOP.
It’s a gloomy, drizzly day in Tampa Bay. In a St. Petersburg Yacht Club ballroom overlooking the city’s grey harbor, Audrey Greenberg says she’s feeling dejected.
2 comments"The mood of the countr...
Fossil hunters uncover Florida's geologic history listen
11/04/10 Matthew CimitileWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Science, Geology, Climate Change, Extinction
Florida’s history didn’t begin with Ponce de Leon, the founding of St. Augustine, Hernando de Soto or even the indigenous Calusa people. Clubs around Florida are venturing out to rock quarries, phosphate mines and river beds to uncover ancient fossils and get a glimpse into Florida’s geologic past.
Kneeling on the limestone surface at Vulcan quarry mine in Brooksville, Shirley Gissy of Port Richey, Florida and a member of the Tampa Bay Fossil Club, takes her rock hammer and meticulously c...
1 commentsNina Hayden loses to Jack Latvala in Florida Senate Race listen
11/03/10 Jamie KidderWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: election, Nina Hayden, Pinellas, Democrats, Jack Latvala, 2010 election
Nina Hayden lost by about 19,000 votes in Pinellas and by around 17,000 in Hillsbourough, her district split between the two counties.
When asked about the possibility of running again, Hayden was vague about what was in store for the future.
When she called Jack Latvala, the winner of the race, to congratulate him, she made it clear that she wanted to stay involved with the community.
According to Hayden, Latvala expressed regret that money was so essential when running a campaign.
Be the first to commentState Rep. Rouson: tea party policies won't work listen
11/03/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 2010 elections, Florida Senate race, Marco Rubio, tea party, Darryl Rouson
Incoming House Speaker John Boehner says Capitol Hill’s GOP fortification will beef up the party’s full-court press against President Obama’s policies. But the US Senate has kept its Democratic majority intact. But members of that party are still concerned about what the fresh crop of Republican senators will do once in Washington. WMNF spoke with one Democrat in the state House who says tea party legislators are going to wreak havoc once they take office.
State Representative Darryl Rouso...
Be the first to commentSink Waits for All Votes to be Counted listen
11/03/10 Kimberly VlachWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Alex Sink, Rick Scott, 2010 election
In a nailbiter contest in one of the nation’s most heated gubernatorial races, Florida has yet to declare a winner. With Rick Scott collecting 49% of the vote and Alex Sink 48% of the vote, votes continue to be counted.
Just after midnight, Alex Sink addressed the crowd in the grand ballroom of the Waterfront Marriott in downtown Tampa. With a smile on her face, she said the election results were turning out to be a nailbiter and a classic Florida election a dead-even race.
“Now, we’re...
Be the first to commentWith help of anti-Dem climate, Republican Jack Latavala wins state senate seat listen
11/03/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Lack Latvala, Nina Hayden, St. Petersburg, Florida politics
Jack Latvala, held his victory party in the Feather Sound area near Clearwater. WMNF caught up with Latvala as the night wound down. He says he waged a campaign that succeeded on the grassroots level.
"Well, we had about a year and a half campaign where we talked to a lot of people."
This isn’t the first time Latvala has won office at the state level. He was a state senator starting in 1994, but termed out in 2002. Tonight, he puts things in concrete terms when he talks about what issu...
Be the first to commentCrist concedes Senate race in St. Pete listen
11/03/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio, US Senate race, 2010 elections, Florida Politics
It wasn’t too long after polls closed that Florida’s US Senate contest went to Marco Rubio. As the Senator-elect’s victory party roared through the evening, the party for another candidate in that race – Florida governor Charlie Crist – took on a calmer tone. The governor gave a short and sweet concession speech to dozens of supporters at a posh ballroom in the Renaissance Vinoy in Crist’s hometown of St. Petersburg.
It’s the same venue at which Crist held his victory party four years ago ...
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