News & Public Affairs
Two top Fla. politicans weigh in on offshore drilling listen
04/26/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bill Nelson, Offshore Drilling, Alex Sink
Last week, the Obama Administration said the oil leak in the gulf will not sway its support for expanded offshore drilling. While President Obama hopes to include it in his energy policy, not all Washington Democrats are on the same page. This morning, WMNF’s Kate Bradshaw spoke with Florida U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson about his position on drilling for oil in Florida’s waters.
The spill currently sits thirty miles off the shore of [Lo...
1 commentsFlorida CFO Alex Sink on GOP credit card scandal listen
04/26/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Alex Sink, Charlie Crist, Bill McCollum, Jim Greer, Marco Rubio, GOP credit card scandal
Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, Alex Sink, is running for governor. Today, we asked the Democrat about how her race might be affected by the credit card scandal rocking the Republican Party of Florida.
Be the first to comment*Well, it’s pretty outrageous. And the idea that donors were contributing to the Republican Party of Florida, and basically, much of the money was spent to finance trips and other personal perks for those office-holders as well as the...
State House moves bed tax bill forward listen
04/23/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: bed tax, tourist development tax, Jimmy Patronis, Florida Association of Counties
The State House is poised to pass a bill that some say could affect local governments to the tune of over $20 million. It has to do with the tourist development – or bed – tax. Rep. Joseph Abruzzo, a Republican from Palm Beach, explained it.
Rep. Jimmy Patronis, the ...
Be the first to commentFlorida GOP will release all credit card records listen
04/23/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Republican Party of Florida, Democratic Party of Florida
Democratic Party of Florida spokesperson Eric Jotkoff reacts to the state GOP credit card scandal and news that Republican Party of Florida will release all of its American Express statements from the three years Jim Greer was chair.
Be the first to comment*Over the course of the last several years, we’ve seen Republican politicians like Marco Rubio and [Dean Cannon](http:/...
Senator Nelson calls for investigation of oil drilling safety listen
04/23/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bill Nelson, Progress Florida, oil drilling
In a letter to Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Florida’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is calling for an investigation into safety of offshore oil rigs.
His letter comes after an explosion earlier this week that sank a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. Eleven workers are still missing.
In the letter, Nelson says the accident...
3 commentsTwo Hillsborough Commissioners square off on transit listen
04/22/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Mark Sharpe, Al Higginbotham, Mass Transit, Penny Tax, penny transit tax, Sun City Center, Mariella Smith, Brian Blair
Today in Sun City Center, two Hillsborough County commissioners cordially debated one of the biggest issues the county’s voters may face in November: a penny sales tax increase to fund transit. And the area’s residents – mostly retirees – didn’t go easy on them.
Commissioners Mark Sharpe and Al Higginbotham didn’t budge on their staunch yet wildly divergent positions on a sales tax increase that would fund rail, road improvements, and a host of oth...
Be the first to commentTampa Council wants ordinance allowing fewer digital billboards listen
04/22/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Billboard ordinance, Tampa City Council, Clear Channel
Will Tampa allow digital billboards in the city? That question could have been answered this morning, but was put off by City Council until May.
The city’s legal staff presented Council with 481 pages of documentation related to a proposed billboard ordinance. If passed, it would allow companies to erect digital billboards if they remove some traditional billboards. But Council member Mary Mulhern is not interested in the swap....
Be the first to commentFCC hears from experts, community listen
04/21/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: FCC, Corporate media, media cross ownership, media conglomeration, Media
Yesterday the Federal Communications Commission held a workshop at the University of South Florida that explored the ups and downs of media cross-ownership. The commission’s possible lift on its limit of how many outlets one company can own in a city did not go over well the audience.
The chairs at USF’s Marshall Center auditorium were sparsely populated, but the passion among attendees was big. Dozens gave public testimony on the virtues of local media. Port Richey resident Mark Scodeman ...
Be the first to commentUSF St. Pete, Dali Museum Celebrate Earth Day listen
04/21/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF St. Petersburg, Earth Day, sistainability, environment, Dali Museum, Downtown St. Pete
Have you ever seen a teal bee? Their brilliant metallic bodies look like something out of a storybook. There were several on USF’s St. Pete campus today, thanks to Sarasota County agriculture expert Robert Kluson. He was on campus for a weeklong Earth Day Celebration, and said there was another place you can find the unusual-looking insects.
Kluson was one of several demonstrators set up on the freshly-minted greenspace at the heart of the campus. Briton Cleveland, president of the school’...
Be the first to commentStetson College of Law Targets Elder Crime listen
04/21/10 Tom BaurWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Stetson College of Law, fraud, senior citizens
Florida’s elderly are suffering abuse from all directions: family members and sneaky neighbors steal their money and valuables; cyber-thieves scam elderly for their pass-codes; crafty telemarketers trick the elderly into charging bogus goods and services onto their credit cards. Yesterday, Stetson University College of Law hosted its Elder Consumer Protection Expo to help seniors arm themselves against crime and abuse.
