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Waldorf Schools consultant says "education of the heart" can cultivate emotional intelligence listen
01/26/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: education, Waldorf Schools
Because of pressure from politicians, most educators in the U.S. are forced to “teach to the test” even though they have the skills and training to provide a much more rounded education. That’s the take of Eugene Schwartz, an educational consultant working mainly with Waldorf Schools.
“…We’re not teaching to the test, we’re teaching to the child.”
Schwartz is speaking at 7:00 p.m. today at the Suncoast Waldorf School at 1857 Curlew Road in Palm Harbor. Ph...
Be the first to commentSt. Pete Mayor Bill Foster supports light rail connection to other cities including Tampa listen
01/25/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bill Foster, light rail, transit, Suncoast Tiger Bay Club, Transportation, St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg mayor Bill Foster champions his city’s transportation accomplishments. At a Suncoast Tiger Bay luncheon Wednesday afternoon he said he fully supports implementing light rail to connect to other cities in the region.
Tiger Bay meetings boast the ability of members to carve a politician up for lunch. St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster found himself on that platter answering questions he said he didn’t want to answer. But w...
Be the first to commentWho makes up the Florida electorate? And the President's State of the Union message
01/25/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Susan Macmanus, USF, voting, demographics, I-4 corridor, 2012 Election, Florida primary election
Coming up we'll hear from Dr. Susan MacManus who teaches political science at USF in Tampa. With the GOP primary next week she'll talk about the Florida electorate. What group's are growing in size? Which geographic area will most decide the winner in Florida? What is our religious and age break down? Who are the people who are supervoters? We'll talk about all of these questions. Then we'll hear a portion of the President's State of the Union speech from last night and then take your phone c...
Be the first to commentThe Republican Presidential candidates meet opposition at USF debate listen
01/24/12 Atecia RobinsonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: GOP, USF Tampa, Students for a Democratic Society, Occupy Tampa, PUSH, Student Labor Action Project, Awake Pinellas, Fight Back Florida, Barack Obama, protests, SDS, Florida primary election, 2012 Election
The Republican Presidential debate at the University of South Florida was crucial for those four candidates, but many groups oppose their agenda. Hundreds flooded the campus to fight back against the positions of candidates on immigration, LGBT issues and tuition hikes.
Outside USF’s administration building more than 200 people held up signs. Some shouted speeches through bullhorns before marching to the site of the debate. The groups were greeted and riled up by Dus...
Be the first to commentHART looks to cut legal spending by using in-house lawyers listen
01/24/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Hillsborough Area Regional Transit, budget cuts, Transportation
The tough budget climate has left governments at all levels looking for creative ways to cut costs. The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority, or HART, is looking to their legal department to save a half a million dollars. In a committee meeting yesterday, HART’s director of legal services, Michael Stephens, said the savings estimate is conservative because...
Be the first to commentGingrich stops at St. Pete cafe to tell voters how he plans to win the presidency listen
01/24/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, 2012 Election
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich made a stop in St. Petersburg this morning to rally support. The standing room only crowd at the Tick Tock Café on north 4th Street forced dozens of others to spill into the parking lot. Gingrich outlined his plan to win the Republican nomination despite funding concerns.
Be the first to comment“Governor Romney will have vastly more money than I will, but we’ll have many more people than he will. Thi...
Republican Presidential candidates debate at USF Tampa listen
01/24/12 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, USF Clean Energy Research Center, Copper Top Pub, debate, USF, 2012 Election, Florida primary election
With the Florida's primary one week away, the top four GOP candidates for President of the United States gathered at Tampa's University of South Florida last night. WMNF’s Kelly Benjamin reports, the candidates sparred during the nearly two hour long debate.
Newt Gingrich's landslide victory in South Carolina last Saturday has shaken Mitt Romney's perceived front runner status. That’s forcing Romney to go on the offensive. Romney laid into Gingrich several times attempting to connect him t...
Be the first to commentPolitifact rates candidates statements from last night's GOP debate in Tampa
01/24/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Media, 2012 Election, Florida primary election
Last night the four GOP presidential candidates took part in a debate on the USF campus in Tampa. Here to tell us how they did in terms of truthfulness is the editor of Politifact Florida Angie Drobnic Holan.
Be the first to commentBees and Sacred Economics
01/23/12 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: bees
On today’s program our first guest, Rebecca “The Beekeeper” Conroy, talked about her upcoming classes on Beginning Beekeeping. They start January 27 at 7 PM at the Sanctuary Acupuncture Center, located on 5111 Central Ave in St Petersburg. She also belongs to the Tampa Bay Beekeepers Association and they’ll be scheduling classes in Bee keeping soon. Our next guest was Charles Eisenstein, author of several books including “Ascent of Humanity” and “Sacred Economics”. He just visited our area...
Be the first to commentBill Moyer's interview with former Reagan budget director David Stockman on crony capitalism
01/23/12 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bill Moyers, David Stockman, bank bailouts, crony capitalism
Good afternoon, welcome to The Last Call. I'm Rob Lorei. it's a big night in Tampa with a GOP Presidential debate, appearances by the candidates all over the Bay area and several protests scheduled. We'll open the phones in a few minutes but first: Bill Moyers has returned to PBS with a new program called Moyers and Company. It airs on WEDU-TV at 3PM on Sunday afternoons. We're going to play par...
2 commentsMove to Amend protests at Tampa Federal Courthouse on anniversary of Citizens United ruling listen
01/23/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Citizens United, corporate personhood, Move To Amend, Occupy Movement, Bill Nelson, Bernie Sanders, NDAA, voting problems
Saturday marked the two year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that gave corporations the ability to pour nearly unlimited contributions into political campaigns. As part of a nationwide movement to Occupy the Courts in protest of that ruling, about 100 protesters from several groups descended on Tampa’s Sam Gibbons Federal Courthouse on Friday afternoon....
Be the first to commentEnvironmental groups want local fertilizer limits upheld listen
01/23/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Susan Latvala, Pinellas Board of County Commissioners, Sierra Club, Tampa Bay Estuary Program, lawn fertilizer, nitrogen fertilizer, pollution, fertilizer ordinance
Lawn care giants like Scotts and TrueGreen Chem Lawn are pushing a bill in the Florida House that would overturn summer bans on the use of nitrogen on lawns during the rainy summer months. At a press conference this afternoon in Clearwater, representatives from environmental groups and some local officials are aski...
Be the first to commentActivists rally for liberty, justice & free enterprise in St. Petersburg listen
01/23/12 Andrea LypkaWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Fraser Institute, Liberty & Justice for All: A Rally for America's Future, St. Petersburg politics, Republican Primary
Next Tuesday is the Presidential preference primary in Florida and candidates will be making their case to conservative voters. About 150 people, including religious leaders and Tea Party activists rallied on January 21st in St. Petersburg's North Straub Park.
Resident Sharon Grant says she thinks the country is going in the wrong direction. Wearing a red, white and blue colored shirt, Grant attended the Liberty & Justice for All: A Rally for America's Future.
“I think that it is extrem...
Be the first to commentThe Prosperity Campaign launches publicity drive for Earned Income Tax Credit
01/23/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: EITC, earned income tax credit, United Way, Juvenile Welfare Board, Kara Moore, Eddie Burch
There's a lot of talk about tax breaks for the wealthy and for large corporations. But there is a tax break for low and moderate income people - it's called the Earned Income Tax Credit. Here to talk about it are Kara Moore from United Way and Eddie Burch from the Juvenile Welfare Board.
More than 30 tax preparation locations will be open...
Be the first to commentSouth Carolina physician Brenda Williams - registering voters one patient at a time listen
01/20/12 Lisa MarzilliLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Dr. Brenda Williams, South Carolina, Republican Primary, Voter Registration, Photo Identification, 2012 Election
Republican voters head to the polls tomorrow in South Carolina. In the wake of the primary, I want to introduce you to a woman who, without any fanfare has helped thousands of people exercise their right to vote. Her name is Dr. Brenda Williams. She is a family practitioner in S. Carolina who, along with her husband, has spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars of their own money helping dozens of residents attain photo ID’s, as well as registering thousands of their patients to vot...
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