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The Author Of The New Book THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN PROSPERITY
06/23/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
The American manufacturing sector is losing jobs. And the service and high tech industries are not faring much better. Our guest today is Clyde Prestowitz, author of the new book THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN PROSPERITY: Free Market Delusions, America's Decline and How We Must Compete in the Post Dollar Era (Free Press). Prestowitz calls for a return to policies that drove America's rise to economic supremacy and world leadership from 1800 until 1950. In some ways China, he says, is copying that ...
Be the first to commentNonprofit, local leaders urge electric car adoption listen
06/22/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: electric cars, sustainable energy, alternative energy, alternative fuels, hybrids
For many, the Gulf crisis is concrete evidence of the urgent need to change the way America powers itself. And the Tampa Bay area may be taking the lead in becoming electric car-friendly.
The day after http://forbes.com dubbed Tampa one of America’s most plug-in ready cities, local leaders met at St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field to kick off an effort to bring electric cars into the mainstream. The effort is part of the Rocky Mountain Institute’s multi-city Get Ready Campaign. Project Man...
Be the first to commentSt Pete Mayor reacts to Rays threat to leave downtown listen
06/22/10 Kate Bradshaw & Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rays stadium, Rays, St. Petersburg, Tropicana Field, Bill Foster
Yesterday, the owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, Stuart Sternberg, warned St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster that the team planned to break its lease of Tropicana Field.
The Rays are seeking permission from the city to alter the contract that currently forbids the team from talking with other municipalities about a new stadium.
Today, WMNF asked Foster about the Rays' future in St. Pete.
previous WMNF coverage of Rays' stadium
Be the first to commentPoor People's March hits Detroit listen
06/22/10 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: poverty, US Social Forum
Over the past two weeks, WMNF has been documenting the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaigns March to Fulfill the Dream, a 12-week, 24-city march and caravan from the Mississippi Delta to the US Social Forum in Detroit which began today.
A dozen homeless people from the Tampa Bay area are with the march helping to organize a broad-based social movement against poverty led by the poor. WMNF's Kelly Benjamin has been embedded with the march and brings us this report as the campaign e...
Be the first to commentDespite criticism, Adm. Thad Allen optimistic about cleanup listen
06/21/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil spill, BP oil disaster, US Coast Guard, Thad Allen, Charlie Crist
With a permanent fix to the gusher at the Deepwater Horizon well still at least several weeks out, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen says BP may soon be able to capture as much as 53,000 barrels of crude every day. But unknowns like weather and the ever-increasing estimates of the volume of oil hemorrhaging from the sea bed are dampening BP and the Coast Guard’s message about their recovery effort.
First it was 1000 barrels. Then 5000, a number that increased six-fold last week. Since the exp...
Be the first to commentRefugees become citizens at World Refugee Day listen
06/21/10 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: World Refugee Day, refugees, immigration
Many local refugees can now call America their true home this week. On Saturday the Tampa Bay Refugee Task Force celebrated World Refugee Day with naturalization ceremonies, awards, films, and resettlement services from local refugee organizations in Tampa and Largo.
Waving small American flags, newly naturalized US refugees were declared citizens, some after waiting almost a decade. The Tampa Bay Refugee Task Force is a coalition of the dozens of l...
Be the first to commentPoor People's March tours community gardens in Flint, MI listen
06/21/10 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: US Social Forum, Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
A contingent of poor and homeless people from the Tampa Bay area is marching with the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaigns 12 week, 24 city march from New Orleans to Detroit for the US Social Forum to draw attention to those affected by the recession and foreclosure crisis. WMNF’s Kelly Benjamin is embedded with the group and brings us this report from Flint, Michigan:
The Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign rolled into Flint, Michigan this weekend, a city that, along with ...
Be the first to commentRays owner threatens to move team if new stadium isn't built outside downtown St. Pete listen
06/21/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rays, Rays stadium, Baseball, Tropicana Field, ABC Coalition, St. Petersburg, Rick Baker, Bill Foster
The Tampa Bay Rays are threatening to break their contract with the city of St. Petersburg and are looking to move out of Tropicana Field. Team owner Stuart Sternberg made that announcement this morning after he met with St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster.
The Rays signed a contract with the City of St. Petersburg that doesn’t expire until 2027. It says the Rays are not allowed to directly or indirectly negotiate for the use of any other facility besides the Trop. But Sternberg insists on moving i...
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06/19/10 Carrie Core/Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Dr Sydell, a local African American physician, discusses the effects of stress on disease. She will be particularly referencing stress to her patients and the particular dangers of stress to African American Women.
Be the first to commentVenus Jones
06/19/10 Carrie Core/Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Venus Jones, well known local poet, opens the women' show with an original poem.
Be the first to commentThe Gulf: Environmental and cultural extinctions
06/19/10 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Monique Harden, New Orleans attorney and co-director of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, talks not only about the environmental crisis caused by the gulf oil explosion but as well the potential cultural extinctions.
Monique talks about the cultural extinction of people who have made their lives in the Gulf for generations. Many of these peoples are descendants of the 1811 Rebellion to End Slavery and are only beginning to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Moniqu...
Be the first to commentNational Black Women's Health Imperative
06/19/10 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Eleanor Hinton Hoytt, the executive director of the National Black Women's Health Imperative, talks about the major health problems for African American women today.
The National Black Women's Health Imperative-formerly the National Black Women's Health Project-is a leading African American health education, research advocacy and leadership developmental institution. It was founded in 1983 by health activist Byllye Avery and is the only national organization devoted solely to the health o...
Be the first to commentSenate hopeful: 'Give me equal time' listen
06/18/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Alex Snitker, US Senate race, Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Jeff Greene, Marco Rubio, Libertarians
At the candidate forum in Sarasota yesterday, the four major candidates for Florida’s open US Senate Seat also fielded questions from reporters. But one of that race’s lesser-known candidates caused a bit of a stir.
When many people think of the race for Florida’s open US Senate seat, they probably think of four people – Governor Charlie Crist, former House Speaker Marco Rubio, US Representative Kendrick Meek, and billionaire investor Jeff Greene. Yet there are several lesser-known candida...
4 commentsSenate hopefuls talk foreign policy listen
06/18/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Jeff Greene
Yesterday, the four best-known candidates vying for Florida’s open US Senate seat spoke on a number of issues in front of reporters and editors in Sarasota. Along with their usual domestic policy stances, each offered his take on the Middle East.
At a candidate forum dominated by message, it’s not too surprising that the four mainstream Senate hopefuls weren’t spouting anything earth-shattering. Sure, Marco Rubio said the Feds should handle the border. Democrat Jeff Greene said he doesn’t ...
Be the first to commentCandidates for Governor speak about health reform listen
06/18/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Alex Sink, Bill McCollum, Bud Chiles, governor's race
In Sarasota yesterday, three major candidates vying for the governor’s mansion made their cases in front of a roomful of journalists and political junkies. Notably absent was Republican Rick Scott, who said he was busy filling out election paperwork in Tallahassee. The candidates who did show up spoke on a gamut of issues, and health care was front and center.
Democrat Alex Sink said she wouldn’t carry out the lawsuit that Attorney General Bill McCollum brought against the federal governm...
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