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Couples take the plunge as St. Pete opens its domestic partnership registry listen

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Tags: St Pete, domestic partnership registry, LGBT

Today St. Pete residents were able to register as domestic partners for the first time. A narrow foyer in City Hall was teeming with excited couples this morning. The domestic partnership registry provides unmarried couples some of the same legal rights as married couples.

People who sign up for the registry only get a fraction of rights of married couples, including the right to be notified if a partner has a medical emergency. Although the new partnership registry is open to same-sex a...

Planned Dunedin townhomes will create more electricity than residents use listen

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Tags: Pinellas County, Dunedin, Ken Welch, Green Planet, green buildings, energy efficiency, sustainable living, solar power, solar energy, LEED

Officials from across Pinellas County broke ground this morning on what they’re calling the nation’s first multi-family dwelling that generates more electricity than it uses. Chuck Burkett, president of Planet Green, the company building the net zero townhomes in Dunedin, said that means most owners won’t have to pay for electricity “if they live a reasonable lifestyle. Now I’m not telling you if you let your kids leave the sliding glass doors open all day in August, you’ll probably get an ...

Ralph Nader Says He Will Not Run for President This Year; Plus Nader on the Conventions, Iran, Gore Vidal and Citizen's United

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Tags: RNC, Ralph Nader, Iran, Citizen's United, campaign contributions, Gore Vidal, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Green Party, Libertarian Party

Good morning- welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up we’ll talk with consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader about the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions…..Nader says taxpayers should not be funding those conventions----

But first one listener comment about yesterday’s discussion with investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson on the use of paid political provocateurs at the Republican National Convention in 2008. Here’s what o...