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New GOP Report Says Party Is Narrow Minded, Out of Touch

03/18/13 Robert Lorei
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Tags: GOP, Republican Party, narrow minded, scary, stuffy old men, out of touch

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. The web site Politico.com is reporting that "The Republican National Committee concedes in a sprawling report Monday that the GOP is seen as the party of “stuffy old men” and needs to change its ways.

Among the RNC’s proposed fixes: enacting comprehensive immigration reform, addressing middle-class economic anxieties head on and condensing a presidential primary process that saw Mitt Romney get battered for m...

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Seminole Heights Walmart? Residents say no!

03/15/13 Janelle Irwin
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Tags: Walmart, local business, Health Mutt, The Refinery, Tampa, business, Seminole Heights

The City of Tampa has approved waivers for Walmart to build driveways at a property on Hillsborough Avenue West of 22nd St in the Seminole Heights neighborhood. Some local businesses aren't worried about the impacts to their bottom line, but residents say they'll shun the big box store.

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Memorial for former Florida Supreme Court justice and Hillsborough County administrator Fred Karl listen

03/15/13 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Fred Karl, Tampa, Hillsborough County, KKK, Leroy Collins, education, Brown v Board of Education, integration

The memorial service for former Florida Supreme Court justice and Hillsborough County administrator Fred Karl was this afternoon at the Tampa Convention Center. Karl died earlier this month.

His son, Fred Karl Jr. relayed a story about when his father represented West Volusia County in the Legislature at a time that the KKK was active and Governor Leroy Collins vetoed a bill that would have closed all public schools if the state enforced the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown versus Board of Educa...

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Former Florida Governor Bob Martinez says Medicaid expansion would be costly listen

03/15/13 Janelle Irwin
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Tags: Centre Club, Bob Martinez, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act

Former Florida Governor Bob Martinez stayed in line with Republican talking points during a luncheon at the Centre Club in the Westshore District in Tampa today. The former Democratic Tampa mayor turned Republican touched on everything from transit to healthcare in front of about 40 local business leaders.

According to Martinez, he was a Democrat for 27 years – he calls it his minority period – but for the last 30 years he has been a Republican. And like most Republicans he said he doe...

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Race Baiter: Eric Deggans on race and media listen

03/15/13 Christopher Davis
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Tags: race, media, Eric Deggans

The news media sometimes covers issues of race -- but a recent book looks at whether that coverage can actually hurt race relations.

WMNF's Christopher Davis interviewed Tampa Bay Times media critic, Eric Deggans, after a community conversation on the topic last night at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg. Deggans' book is called Race Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.

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