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The Hillsborough League of Women Voters may get a new unit to cover New Tampa and East Pasco County listen
11/23/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: League of Women Voters of Hillsborough County, Pasco County, pat mulieri, Victor Crist
Residents in East Pasco county and New Tampa have to drive a long way to be a part of meetings for the League of Women Voters. That’s why the Hillsborough chapter is trying to start up a unit to cover the two areas who share many roads, but not the same county.
Parts of Pasco county back right into parts of Hillsborough, but the two counties rarely collaborate on issues that affect them both. Hillsborough League of Women Voters president Mickey Castor said not only wi...
2 commentsTampa Police Captain Dugan meets with weapons vendor Safariland
11/22/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: weapons, RNC, convention, Republican National Convention, 2012 GOP Convention, pepper spray, pepper spraying of UC Davis students, Occupy Tampa, Occupy Wall Street
Tampa Police Captain Brian Dugan met with weapons and law enforcement equipment vendor Safariland Tuesday November 22. Andrea Davis is a spokesperson for Tampa Police, and she said that Safariland arranged the appointment. Occupy Tampa protesters say they saw him at Moxies sandwich shop with several company ...
Be the first to comment150 tons of sand sculptures showcased on Treasure Island beach listen
11/22/11 Andrea LypkaWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: sanding ovations, beaches, treasure island
Over the weekend, visitors to Treasure Island saw 150 tons of sand transformed into massive sand sculptures.
Among the ten professionals from all over the world who competed for the Sanding Ovations Masters Cup last weekend was Rusty Croft from Carmel, California. He has been traveling all over the world for the last 14 years creating sand sculptures. Croft fought the windy weather and surrounded himself with buckets of sand for 24 hours to carve the masterpiece Sprouting Ideas. It’s a pi...
Be the first to commentBurton Hersh on Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover
11/22/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Kennedy, Burton Hersh, JFK, Bobby and Edgar, wmnf, radioactivity, Rob Lorei
Coming up today we’ll talk about the life of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover who spent about 40 years in that job.
He headed the nation’s foremost law enforcement agency during some of the nation’s most tumultuous times- the Great Depression, World War II, The McCarthy anti-communist era, The Civil Rights Movement, the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War. There’s a new film in the theaters about Hoover starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Clint Eastwood.
Our guest is St...
Be the first to commentHas the Occupy movement faded or is it becoming a modern version of the Civil Cights movement?
11/21/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: pepper spraying of UC Davis students, police attacks on occupy protestors, Occupy Wall Street
Coming up today we'll talk about the Occupy Movement and get your take on four bits of audio. First we'll hear Fox News' Bill O'Reilly's comments about the Occupy Movement. Later we'll hear what happened when University of California police pepper sprayed peaceful student protestors directly in the eyes. We'll also hear what happened to an Iraq War veteran who peacefully faced down police officers in Oakland as part of the occupy protests there. Finally we'll hear about a new public relations...
Be the first to commentOccupy Tampa protesters claim police are targeting specific people for arrest listen
11/21/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Tampa, Tampa Police
As the number of arrests associated with Occupy Tampa has climbed to almost 30, some occupiers think police officers are targeting specific people. They say arrests for trespassing are made on an inconsistent basis.
Joseph “Felix” Perry has been arrested twice. He’s also been trespassed from both Kiley Garden and [Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park](http://www.tampagov.net/parks_search_webapp/P...
3 commentsHillsborough Commissioner Kevin Beckner speaks with South Tampa constituents listen
11/21/11 Atecia RobinsonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Hillsborough County Commision, Kevin Beckner, Library, insurance fraud
Elected officials often travel around their districts to hear from a range of citizens. On Friday Hillsborough County Commissioner Keven Becknerheld a sparsely-attended community meeting at the Jan Platt Regional Library in South Tampa.
Only two library employees stopped by to see Commissioner Beckner. He said he started community meetings in 2009 after b...
Be the first to commentPasco's Centennial Middle School gets solar energy system listen
11/21/11 Olivia KabatWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Pasco County, solar energy, Tampa Electric, renewable energy
Centennial Middle School in Pasco County is getting a solar array system that will provide energy for the school. The solar array being installed by Tampa Electric and the Florida Solar Energy Center will provide educational opportunities for the students as well.
Cherie Jacobs, corporate spokesperson for Tampa Electric, says Centennial is the first school in Pasco County to receive a solar array.
Be the first to comment“Tampa Electric has a new program where we will invest $1.5 million each year for 5 year...
SDS formally demands tuition freeze from USF administration listen
11/19/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday
Tags: USF, tuition hike, tuition increase, SDS, Occupy USF
Members of the University of South Florida administration say they were relieved to see that only five people from Students for a Democratic Society attended a meeting in the Marshall Center this morning. SDS at USF said they want a more diplomatic approach in their ongoing demands for a tuition freeze.
Last week about fifty members of [Occupy USF](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occ...
Be the first to commentWith 1,000 US Military Bases In Foreign Countries President Obama Adds Another
11/18/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Catherine Lutz, Australia military base, President Obama, WMNF, Rob Lorei, costs of war
Yesterday President Obama announced that the U.S. was establishing a new military base in Australia staffed by 2500 service members. Here to talk about the new base is CATHERINE LUTZ, editor of the book "The Bases of Empire: The Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts," Lutz says: "The United States has a vast and expensive network of roughly 1000 military bases around the world. To add another in Australia flies in the face both of organized calls from many quarters to reduce that number as wel...
Be the first to commentWhere does the Occupy movement go from here?
11/18/11 Lisa Marzilli, Beth BellLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, Occupy Tampa
Yesterday marked the two month anniversary of the Occupy movement. It was observed with calls to action from around the country. Locally, Occupy Tampa protestors joined with members of organized labor for a march to the Platt Street Bridge, which is closed for renovation. They are demanding that Congress pass the Obama administration's jobs bill and start pumping more federal dollars into infrastructure repair which would also create jobs for the millions of unemployed Americans.
On tod...
Be the first to commentOccupy Tampa marches in solidarity with labor unions listen
11/18/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Tampa, labor, unions, jobs
For the first time, organized labor and the Occupy movement joined forces yesterday for a demonstration in downtown Tampa. Their central demand was that Congress pass the President’s Jobs Act. They used the construction at the Platt Street Bridge as a backdrop and an example of the kind of federal spending that will put people back to work.
About 40 union members and advocates ...
Be the first to commentDavid Kotok: Employment influences on the market and Federal Reserve policies listen
11/18/11 Doug DriscollWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: New College of Florida, New Topics, David Kotok, economy
America’s economic recovery will include a steady rise in financial stability coupled with slow job growth. That’s the opinion of David Kotok, chair of Cumberland Advisiors. He gave that assessment to an audience of about 120 people in Sarasota on Tuesday.
Translating complex financial trends into understandable graphics is why Kotok is in demand as a commentator on the US and global economy. His forec...
Be the first to commentDan Ruth of the St. Pete Times on Norm Roche, Herman Cain and working in Chicago
11/17/11 Mitch PerryLast Call Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Dan Ruth, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Scott, Jeb Bush, Norm Roche
Dan Ruth is a columnist and editorial writer with the St. Pete Times. Previously with the Tampa Tribune, Ruth weighs in on a variety of topics for the full hour.
Be the first to commentThree arrested at Occupy Tampa Wednesday night listen
11/17/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Tampa, Tampa Police, Tampa, Occupy Wall Street
There were three more arrests late last night at Occupy Tampa. One was skateboarding in Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park after hours, and was arrested for trespassing. Two more people were arrested while trying to document the arrest.
This is the second time Ryan Bee has been arrested for trespassing. The last time he was arrested for attempting to oc...
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