News & Public Affairs
Sex Scandal Coverage, Medicare Privatization and Open Phones
05/23/11 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Danny Schechter, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, sex, rape, media
Good afternoon, welcome to the Last call. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up Danny Schechter, one time news director at WBCN-FM in Boston and former staffer at ABC News. He recently wrote an op-ed about the recent widely publicized sex-scandals in which he said:
Be the first to comment"My colleague Mike Whitney asks: "So, what are the chances that Strauss-Kahn will get a fair trial now that he's been blasted as a serial sex offender in about 3,000 articles and in all the televised news reports?
"Do you remember any ...
Environmentalists decry plan to do away with Florida DCA listen
05/23/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rick Scott, Sierra Club, Florida Chamber of Commerce, DCA, 2011 Legislative session, development
Since 1986, the Florida Department of Community Affairs has tried to prevent sprawl throughout the state, often to the chagrin of developers. Governor Rick Scott is poised to do away with the agency by signing a bill that delivers sweeping changes to the way Florida controls growth.
Earlier today, Florida Fish and Wildlife officers tranquilized a black bear seen wandering near downtown Ft. Myers. Environmentalists say it’s a sign that development is severely encroaching on wildlife habita...
3 commentsRandy Heine running for Pinellas County Sheriff on marijuana legalization platform listen
05/20/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: marijuana, drugs, Pinellas County Sheriff, Everett Rice, Robert Gualtieri, Randy Heine
After the 2012 elections Pinellas County residents will have a new Sheriff in town. In a field of other candidates, Randy Heine announced his bid for Pinellas County Sheriff this morning at the Supervisor of Elections office in Largo.
Randy Heine wants to change the face of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office: by supporting and proposing policies that aim to legalize marijuana for both medicinal and recreational use. It’s a stance he’s always had, but this morning he made official his p...
Be the first to commentControversial elections law not yet valid in Hillsborough, four other counties listen
05/20/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Early voting, elections, Hillsborough County, voting rights act, Rick Scott, ACLU, 2011 Legislative session, voting
Governor Rick Scott has set off another firestorm of criticism when he signed a law yesterday that overhauls elections in Florida. The law goes into effect immediately, except in Hillsborough and four other counties in the state.
Hillsborough County was once found to have polling practices deemed racially discriminatory under Section 5 of the [Voting Rights Act of 1965](http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/intro/intro_...
Be the first to commentThe World Ends Tomorrow?
05/20/11 Rob LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up we'll hear a prediction for the end of the world and we'll hear from a skeptic. This Saturday an influential Christian radio broadcaster is predicting the world will end. The New York Times reports that:
2 comments"This Saturday, May 21, is the apocalypse, according to the ministry’s charismatic leader, “brother” Harold Camping.
“I’m so glad that God’s in charge,” Mr. Camping, 89, said, looking gleeful.
Mr. Camping, a 1942 ...
Florida ACLU reacts to controversial elections bill passed by the Legislature
05/19/11 Mitch PerryLast Call Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Danielle Prendergast, Florida ACLU, ACLU, elections, 2011 legislative session
Danielle Prendergast from the ACLU of Florida speaks about the controversial elections reform passed by the Florida Legislature.
Be the first to commentObama says Palestine must be based in 1967 borders listen
05/19/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Barack Obama, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt
President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians' demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war. Israel's prime minister has rejected that, saying return to the borders before Israel occupied the Palestinian territories would spell disaster for the Jewish state.
Obama outlined U.S. policy in the Middle East and North Africa in a speech today.
4 comments"T...
Tampa City Council gets bummer of a budget update listen
05/19/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tampa City Council, recession, Charlie Miranda, budget, Bob Buckhorn, Lisa Montelione
Today the Tampa City Council heard some news that probably wasn’t too surprising: the city is woefully lacking in money. Tampa’s budget gap is in the tens of millions of dollars.
Budget officer Dennis Rogero told the council members he was cautiously optimistic on the local economy.
Be the first to comment"Very slight growth anticipated with a anticipated continuation of a relatively high unemployment rate and a relatively small annual average increase anticipated for annual wages. So perhaps, depends on who...
Tampa streamlines community garden application listen
05/19/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tampa City Council, community gardens, Mary Mulhern
More and more people are thinking differently about open space. Residents in cities across the country are digging up patches of grass and replacing them with edible plants. Today Tampa City Council made it a little easier for local neighborhoods to get them going.
For the second time, council member Mary Mulhern read the non-flowery language of an ordinance that does away with the chunky process once required for sprouting a community garden in Tampa. For the second time, the council unan...
Be the first to commentTampa's Mayor participates in National Ride Your Bike to Work Day listen
05/19/11 Nolan RuarkWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: SWFBUD, Bob Buckhorn, Bikes, Alan Snell, bicycling, transportation
Today is National Ride Your Bike to Work Day, and May is National Bike Month. To honor the date people held events across Tampa to raise awareness of bicyclists.
Today, Tampa City council commended Alan Snel, the director of the Southwest Florida bicycle United Dealers (SWFBUD), for advocating bicycle safety and bicycling as a means of transportation.
Be the first to comment“We have a lot of partners and people are moving bicycling up in Tampa from many different directions so it’s not just me but I really ...
Tampa residents commemorate anniversary of death of Jose Marti listen
05/19/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cuba, Jose Marti, Ybor City
On this day in 1895, Cuban revolutionary José Martí died in battle against the Spaniards. Today on a tiny chunk of Cuban soil in Ybor City, a small group of Tampa residents of Cuban descent commemorated the anniversary. 89-year-old Al Arteaga of Cuba Vive Tampa Bay brought flowers to the Friends of José Martí Park.
"Jose Marti was a man who was from the youngest years joined the liberty of Cuba from the Spanish. The Spanish occupied Cuba since the 1700's."
Tell us about this park. What...
Be the first to commentThe rich don't create jobs- -demand from the public does, says our guest Dave Johnson
05/19/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: tax cuts for the rich, unempoyment, jobs, Dave Johnson, Campaign For America's Future
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. Our country is still in recession. And there are several schools of thoughts about how to reduce unemployment. Is the solution more tax cuts? Or is it more investment by the government? Our guest, Dave Johnson is a Fellow at Campaign for America's Future, writing about American manufacturing, trade and economic/industrial policy. He is also a Senior Fellow with Renew California.
Dave has more than 20 years of technology industry experience including ...
6 commentsTreasure Island bans alcohol on part of Sunset Beach listen
05/18/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Treasure Island, Sunset Beach, alcohol ban, civil liberties
Last night a three-hour Treasure Island City Commission meeting resulted in an alcohol ban on the shores of the town’s Sunset Beach area – sort of. After an overwhelming majority of locals urged the commission to rethink the proposal -- they unanimously approved a ban that applies to a fourteen-block stretch.
You couldn’t pigeonhole the dozens of locals who told the Treasure Island City Commission last night that banning alcohol on Sunset Beach is a terrible idea. Resident Jeff Fuller said...
1 commentsState Senator Mike Fasano on homeowner's insurance, privatization, & the "Taj Mahal" courthouse; open phones
05/18/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Mike Fasano, insurance, Taj Mahal courthouse, 2011 Legislative session
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up on the first part of today's program is State Senator Mike Fasano (R-Pasco County). We'll talk with him about his opposition to the insurance bill signed yesterday by the Governor, the latest on the Taj Mahal courthouse scandal and privatization of prisons and Medicaid. Later we'll open the phone lines.
1 commentsBipartisanship on both sides of Florida's redistricting process listen
05/18/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Fair districts, voting rights, elections, Florida politics, ACLU, Darryl Rouson, Dan Gelber, redistricting, gerrymandering
Progressives may not be happy with many of the outcomes of the 2010 midterm elections, but many see the two Fair Districts amendments voters adopted as a victory. But Not everyone is happy that they passed, and there’s even a bipartisan effort to challenge the law, which changes the way legislative districts are drawn.
Some say Florida voters overwhelmingly elected Republicans to the state legislature because the GOP’s election year strategy brought...
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