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Listeners react to controversial changes to Democratic Party platform listen
09/05/12 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: DNC, Israel, Palestine, God, Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention is going on this week in Charlotte. We’d spoke about listener's thoughts about the speeches, the protests, or their experiences in Tampa during last week’s Republican convention.
Just before going to air, the Democrats passes two amendments to their party platform in a controversial voice vote.
The amendments put two provisions back into the platform that had been r...
Be the first to commentRNC was a business bust for some owners in downtown Tampa listen
09/04/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: small business, RNC, Republican National Convention, Event Zone, Clean Zone
Some small businesses in downtown Tampa didn’t rake in the money city officials said they would during the Republican convention last week. Instead, some restaurant owners over-ordered to accommodate the crowds they were promised. Crystal Davis owns The Luxury Box directly across the street from the Tampa Bay Times Forum and said she lost a lot of money.
Be the first to comment“I spent tens of thousands of dollars on this venue and now I’m going to spend the next week or so just to return it all because they ...
New Book By Paul Guzzo Covers Castro, Bolita, Organized Crime and Mass Murder in Tampa
09/04/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Paul Guzzo, Darkside of Sunshine, Fidel Castro, Tampa, July 26th Movement, Robert Anderson, Centro Asturiano fire, Santo Trafficante, Ybor City, bolita, DNC security, Tampa Bay Times, Michael Van Sickler, RNC
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll talk with Paul Guzzo who has written a new book about Tampa called THE DARKSIDE OF SUNSHINE:Murder, Mayhem,Militias,Marijuana, Mafia and the Mons: A Century of Infamy in the City of Tampa.
Later we'll talk with Michael Van Sickler a staff writer at the Tampa Bay Times about [his article in today's TBT](http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/atmosphere-in-charlotte-more-free-fun-th...
Be the first to commentGrover Norquist spoke in St Petersburg during Republican convention listen
09/04/12 Samuel JohnsonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: taxes, libertarian, Grover Norquist, the pledge, RNC, Republican National Convention
Last Wednesday at the USF St. Petersburg campus, the conservative lobbyist and author of the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” Grover Norquist delivered a 40 minute speech about the current American political process. The low turn out of roughly 50 people received a lesson in the ideology of the Republican Party from arguably one of the most powerful men in Washington.
Norquist’s advocacy group, Americans for Tax Reform, is best known for the taxpayer protection pledge whi...
Be the first to commentActivists think Republican convention security was overkill listen
09/04/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Romneyville, Occupy Tampa, Tampa Police, RNC, Republican National Convention, Event Zone
The Tampa Police Department hired thousands of extra officers to help with security for the Republican National Convention last week; some activists who were protesting the event including Occupy Tampa’s Andrew Speirs think it was overkill.
Be the first to comment“The police have been showing up with overwhelming force for peaceful protesters mainly using, not so much fear tactics, but just using overwhelming numbers to try to keep us in their sense of calm when we are doing nothing but being peaceful anyways.”...
Electric bikes
09/03/12 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: alternative energy, electric bikes, transportation
Today on the Sustainable Living program our special guest is the creator of the Electric Chronicles -- that’s all about electric power on two wheels: bikes, scooters, motorcycles, stock, modifications, conversions, etc., Ted Dillard. Ted has also written several articles for Home Power Magazine on bike and motorcycle conversions to electric power. We started talking about what’s available today in stock bikes and the improvements to electric propulsion. Ted seems to feel that the hub electri...
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