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Interview with hydroponics shop owner whose customers were spied on by Pinellas Sheriff's Department
12/05/11 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Dawn Bednar, Simply Hydropinics, Pinellas Board of County Commissioners, marijuana
Coming up this hour we'll talk with Dawn Bednar who is one of the owners of Simply Hydroponics and Organics (FMI hydrodawn@yahoo.com). Yesterday in the St. Petersburg Times there was a story about how Pinellas sheriffs deputies had placed a camera on a poll outside her business in Largo. The deputies were photographing customers who were going in and out of her store, looking for people who were growing marijuana in their homes. Bednar says that her customers are legitimate and should not ...
Be the first to comment9/11 whistleblower warns against new defense spending bill listen
12/05/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: national defense authorization act, 9/11 attacks, 9/11 Commission, whistleblower, whistelblowers, FBI, NDAA
Americans are entitled to a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution, but the new defense spending bill that passed by an overwhelming majority in the Senate last week excluded an amendment to prohibit the military from indefinitely detaining US citizens.
Former FBI agent Colleen Rowley is now an anti-war activist,...
Be the first to commentMuslim Legal Fund for America seeks justice for disenfranchised Americans listen
12/05/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Muslim-Americans, Muslims, Muslim, CAIR, Occupy Movement, national defense authorization act, Occupy Wall Street, Sami Al-Arian, NDAA
When many Muslims-Americans are accused of heinous acts such as terrorism and aiding militant groups, some are deprived of their rights to a fair trial, and others are even held captive indefinitely in places like Guantanamo Bay. Sunday the Muslim Legal Fund for America held a benefit luncheon in Tampa. Khalil Meek is their executive director.
The Muslim Legal Fund for America (MLFA) isn’t a law firm, but it aims to p...
Be the first to commentObama wants Congress to extend payroll tax cuts before they expire listen
12/05/11 wire services including APWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Barack Obama
President Barack Obama says Congress needs to extend a payroll tax cut, saying the economic recovery is still fragile and middle class families need the money.
In a statement Monday afternoon, the president urged Republicans to keep their word to the American people on not raising taxes.
Without an extension the tax cut will expire at the end of the year.
Here's the full text of the speech as provided by the White House:
For Immediate Release ...
Be the first to commentDiscussion of the high cost of a college education and local law enforcement spies on hydroponics shoppers
12/05/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: college costs, student debt, college loans, Tamara Draut, Deomos, drugs
Two topics today: first we'll discuss the rising cost of a college education. We'll talk with Tamara Draut who is a vice president at DEMOS. She's the co-author of a new study on the cost of college. Among other things the study found: "...most U.S. adults age 18 to 34 also view college as harder to afford than just five years ago. They feel that people are leaving school with too much debt, and they oppose proposals to cut federal student aid, according to a survey released today by three ...
Be the first to commentStetson Law professor Michael Allen discusses upcoming state Supreme Court challenge of Florida's drug possession law
12/02/11 Lisa Marzilli, Beth BellLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Stetson Law, drug laws
The state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments December 6th, on a case involving Florida’s Drug Abuse Prevention and Control law. According to the Florida Department of Corrections nearly 94,000 people have been sent to state prisons for drug crimes since the beginning of 2002, most of them convicted under that law.
Florida is the only state in the country that does not have a mens rea or "guilty knowledge" provision in its drug law; it was stripped from the statute by the Florida ...
Be the first to commentOccupy Tampa Arrests, Occupy New Port Richey Protest & Frank Luntz on the Occupy Movement
12/02/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday)
Tags: Occupy Tampa, Riverfront Park, Occupy New Port Richey, Frank Luntz, Occupy Wall Street
Coming up we'll hear about the arrests of dozens of Occupy Tampa activists last night in Riverfront Park. later we'll hear from Kevin Horan from the Occupy New Port Richey movement.
Local Occupy Group Takes On Big Banks
As part of their "Move Your Money" campaign, Occupy New Port Richey will visit a local branch of Wells Fargo at 2pm this afternoon. They plan to protest outside of the bank and hand out information to bank customers and passersby. They hope ...
Be the first to commentVideos: 29 Occupy Tampa members arrested while camping in Riverfront Park listen
12/02/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Tampa, Occupy Movement, Tampa, Tampa Police, law enforcement, arrests, protests, protesters, camping, parks, parks and recreation
Tampa Police say overnight they arrested 29 members of Occupy Tampa in a riverside park west of downtown. Before the arrests about 40 people attempted to camp on a hill inside the park, but many people complied with police orders to leave.
The hilltop encampment in Julian Lane Riverfront Park was in plain view for police helicopters. More than a dozen...
2 commentsAlmost 200 countries engage in UN climate talks in South Africa. What's the US's role? listen
12/01/11 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: climate change, global warming, South Africa, United Nations, Climate Conference, COP 17. climate denial
The United Nations Climate Change Conference is under way in Durban, South Africa this week with representatives from nearly 200 countries meeting to discuss how to address the issue of global climate change. WMNF's Kelly Benjamin is at the conference in Durban and files this report about the role of the US in international negotiations and how the rest of the world sees it.
Be the first to commentAre The Proposed New District Maps Released By The Florida Senate Fair?
12/01/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: fair districts, Florida Amendment 5 and 6
The Florida Senate released its redistricting plans for congressional and senate districts this week. The maps are an attempt to define voting district boundaries for the next 10 years, starting with the 2012 elections. But they are subject to passage in the legislature and review by the Florida Supreme Court. .
A period of public comment began two days ago and continues ‘til next Tuesday.
The Senate Reapportionment Committee said it tried to adhere to the tenets of Amendments 5 & 6, w...
Be the first to commentFlorida Representative Rick Kriseman urges residents to back Obama's Jobs Act listen
12/01/11 Sarah CurranWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: jobs, barack obama, Rick Kriseman, American Jobs Act, Florida Consumer Action Network
Florida Representative Rick Kriseman says Governor Rick Scott doesn’t get it when it comes to creating jobs in the state. At a community meeting last night, the representative spoke about Obama’s American Jobs act. He says it focuses on the right ways to get the economy back on track.
“Our governor doesn’t get it and the President does get it.”
Representative Kriseman spoke to a crowd of about a dozen in St. Petersburg. The event hosted by the Florida Consumer Action Network gave...
Be the first to commentPinellas firefighters want to transport patients & want Sunstar out listen
12/01/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Pinellas Legislative Delegation, Pinellas County fire rescue, pinellas county ems
Emergency response services in Pinellas County could be facing serious budget cuts. At a meeting yesterday in Pinellas Park, the Pinellas Legislative Delegation reviewed two local bills that could cut costs while still maintaining service levels.
One proposed bill would allow local fire departments to transport patients to the hospital instead of utilizing Sunstar, the private company currently contracted through P...
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