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Should The State Open Up More Public Parks To Overnight Camping, RV's and Operation By Private Companies? listen
06/30/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: honeymoon Island, RV's, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, camping, privatization
Good morning, welcome to Radiactivity. Last week the St. Petersburg Times reported that "The (Florida) Department of Environmental Protection has targeted Honeymoon Island as one of the first of 56 parks where state officials want to add new overnight camping sites — including space for recreational vehicles. Honeymoon Island could get up to 45 campsites on 17.5 acres east of the southern beach parking lot, under the DEP's plan.
In a departure from the way Florida created its award-winni...
Be the first to commentThe U.S. and terrorism circa 2011
06/30/11 Mitch PerryLast Call Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: John Mueller, terrorism, 9/11
On the first half of the program Ohio State University political science professor John Mueller discussed the U.S. reaction to the war on terror, nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks.
On the second half of the show, the open phone segment featured several callers who despaired about the state of the nation, and of Florida.
Be the first to commentIs the US an empire? Group in Tampa says yes listen
06/30/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: United Church of Christ, UCC, empire, imperialism, economic justice, Homelessness
When they hear the word empire, many people think of Rome, Babylon, Britain, or the USSR. But today a group in Tampa talked about imperial aspects of the United States. Just ahead of the country’s two-hundred-thirty-fifth birthday, a United Church of Christ workshop revealed an imperial America they say varies greatly from the vision of the nation’s founders.
Reverend Tom Warren is with a United Church of Christ congregation in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. In talking about America as an imper...
Be the first to commentNRDC releases beaches scorecard; Florida scores well except for effects of BP oil listen
06/29/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NRDC, fertilizer, fertilizer ordinance, beaches
Tampa Bay Beaches will likely be packed this holiday weekend, and an environmental study out today ranks beaches nationwide on pollution and closures. Despite oil hitting the Panhandle last year, Florida Beaches as a whole didn’t fare too poorly.
"Beaches in Florida, the overall picture is that 4 percent of the samples exceeded national standards in 2010."
Jon Devine, senior lawyer i...
Be the first to commentCallers ponder how Rick Scott got elected with his current abysmal poll numbers
06/29/11 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rick Scott, nuclear power
Today on Last Call we reviewed the day's international news from Greece and Egypt and in U.S. news, a court ruling affirming Congress' health care reform law.
In Florida, a court backed Governor Rick Scott in challenging part of Florida's campaign finance laws. Callers questioned how, since Scott's current poll numbers are so dismal, he was able to win election last November.
We also discussed an article about the U.S. n...
Be the first to commentAmerica's best defense attorney: Clarence Darrow
06/29/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Clarence Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trail, Leopold and Loeb, John Farrell, Haymarket Square, law, labor
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. There’s a new biography of legendary attorney Clarence Darrow… the attorney who had a long career defending the downtrodden in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. He was far ahead of his time. We’ll talk with his biographer in a moment. But first one listener comment about yesterday’s interview with a USF researcher who is part of a team studying red-light cameras. Their conclusion is that red light cameras actually do more harm than good. Here’s what one...
Be the first to commentOn Senate floor, Marco Rubio calls for assassination of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi listen
06/28/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Libya, Marco Rubio, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Moammar Gadhafi
The U.S. Senate is taking up the question about whether President Barack Obama is acting within the law by ordering U.S. involvement in the NATO attack on Libya. On the Senate floor, Florida’s junior U.S. Senator Marco Rubio blamed Obama for how NATO’s war on Libya is going.
3 comments"Only when the Gadhafi mercenaries were on the outskirts of Bengazi threatening to massacre thousands of innocent civilians did the President finally agree to participate. But even that was botched. First we ceded mos...
Progress Energy to repair cracks at Crystal River nuke facility listen
06/28/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Fukushima, Progress Energy, Crystal River, nuclear power, nuclear energy
As flooding in the Missouri River threatens a Nebraska Nuclear plant, and fires encroach on New Mexico’s Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, a utility company has said it will repair cracks at its Florida facility rather than permanently shutter the plant. Progress Energy’s Crystal River nuclear power plant has been out of commission since a crack was found in a containment wall there. Jeff Lyash, the company’s executive vice president, said today in a conference call, the high cost of repairing t...
Be the first to commentUSF Researchers Say Red Light Cameras Do Not Improve Traffic Safety
06/28/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: red light cameras, USF College of Public Health, Etienne Pracht, USF
Good morning, welcome to radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. In recent years there's been a move by local governments to install red light cameras in order to improve safety at intersections. Our guest today, Etienne Pracht, PhD is part of a research team at the USF College of Public Health which has studied red light cameras. Their studies conclude that the cameras do little to promote safer intersections. And that there are other, cheap...
Be the first to commentHaridopolos campaign says college textbook development is not a real issue listen
06/28/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Mike Haridopolos, Progress Florida
Under a contract from Brevard Community College, State Senate President Mike Haridopolos wrote a book on political science. He was paid more than $150,000 and critics have scoffed at the quality of the text Haridopolos wrote. Now a liberal group says the meager income generated for the college by the book is cause for concern. Damian Filer is a spokesperson for Progress Florida.
Be the first to comment"It was about 2 weeks ago at an event in Tampa at a Tiger Bay luncheon and Senator Haridopolos was asked if he ...
Alternet Senior Editor Joshua Holland Discusses The Economy, The Debt Limit, Taxes And Fox News
06/27/11 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: national debt, federal taxes, the European model, health care, military spending
Good afternoon, welcome to The Last Call. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll talk with Joshua Holland who is a senior writer for Alternet.org. Recently he's been writing about the national debt, taxes, health care and comparisons between the U.S. and European social safety nets. We'll talk with him about those issues as well as the recent Jon Stewart-Fox News controversy.
Be the first to commentEthical Questions Swirling Around Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
06/27/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: Clarence Thomas, Ian Millhiser, Harlan Crow, ethics, scandal
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today: Has Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas committed ethics violations that raise serious questions about his judicial independence and fairness? We’re joined now by a Ian Millhiser a writer for Think Progress who has been tracking the allegations against Clarence Thomas. The questions surrounding Thomas include gifts from wealthy people who may have interests before the courts, t...
Be the first to commentSolar electric prices dropping
06/27/11 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar power, solar, solar energy, solar panels, alternative energy, sustainable living
We were very happy to have Andy Black with ON Grid Solar, a solar electric information business that produces software for the solar industry. Also a good friend of the Sustainable Living program joined us: John Gambil with Hot Wire Enterprises, a solar company in Tarpon Springs.
The focus of the program was that solar electric systems continue to get cheaper. Andy felt like this will continue for a while longer; the main reason being t...
Be the first to commentNational Organization for Women 2011 Conference in Tampa looks at violence listen
06/27/11 Lachelle RoddyWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NOW, Feminism, Women's rights, women's issues
NOW is a national advocacy group focusing on fighting all forms of sex discrimination. NOMAS, the National Organization for Men Against Sexism, joined NOW and kicked off the weekend with a panel on feminist men in relationships. Ben Atherton-Zeman, the director of Voices for Men, said women have an understandable reason to still question the motives of feminist men.
One member of the Young Feminist Task Force, Micah Bochart, said feminist men have a responsibility to speak out against sexi...
5 commentsPinellas demonstrators speak out against Florida drilling proposal listen
06/27/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil disaster, Deepwater Horizon, Mike Haridopolus, Dean Cannon, Charlie Crist, Rick Scott, Darden Rice, Gulf of Mexico, st. pete beach, Rick Kriseman, Jim Frishe, Hands Across The Sand
Environmental Protection Agency director Lisa Jackson said today that replenishing wetlands diminished in the wake of the BP oil disaster is a top priority. She says a chunk of the one billion dollars that BP has dedicated to the area will likely go toward sediment projects to restore barrier islands, which provide vital wildlife habitat and storm protection.
The disaster may have faded from headlines, but the debate on offshore drilling is ongoing. On Saturday the St. Petersburg Times ...
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