Police brutality and car chases in black neighborhoods bemoaned by NAACP

The NAACP is crying foul over the St. Petersburg Police Department’s use force and frequent car chases in predominantly black neighborhoods. Tuesday night during a town hall meeting at their midtown office, more than 40 people weighed in on the problem. Angela Owens is an attorney working with the group.

“The value of apprehending a suspect verses the possible danger to innocent people, that’s what they’re supposed to be weighing. But, the real irony of it is that, if they’re weighing it ...

Hillsborough County approves $225,000 handout for Amazon.com

Hillsborough County Commissioners unanimously approved Amazon.com as a Qualified Target Industry Business Wednesday, making it eligible for up to $225,000 in local financial support. Another nearly $6 million in tax breaks will be taken up at a meeting in July. Two Hillsborough County residents took issue, including Seffner resident Elizabeth Belcher who called the incentive corporate welfare.

“Several years ago, I was involved in community plans. One issue that was discussed was providin...

Hillsborough County Commission kicks the can on banning candidates from appointed county seats

Hillsborough County Commissioners did not approve a policy change that would have banned people running for office from serving on appointed committees Wednesday. Instead, Commissioner Mark Sharpe asked that county staff re-work language to include specific criteria for when a person should be disqualified from sitting on a panel. The issue came up, in part, as a result of Hillsborough County School Board candidate Terry Kemple’s attempt to earn a seat on the diversity committee. If the polic...

Assata Shakur First Woman on FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List

Today on Radioactivity, Rob Lorei discusses the case of Assata Shakur. She is a one time member of the Black Liberation Army now living in Cuba and is convicted of murder. The FBI has now put out a $2 million dollar reward for her capture. But is she a terrorist? And is she a murderer? Those allegations are in doubt according to our guest today, journalist William Boardman.

Boardman has written: "The World's Number One Terrorist on the FBI web site, at the top of the FBI's official list...

Pinellas County accepts federal funding for Sunset Beach renourishment

Tuesday the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners approved a cooperative agreement between the county and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the re-nourishment of Sunset Beach. The $2.4 million in federal funds will replace sand lost when Tropical Storm Debby impacted the beach last year.

The agreement is part of a larger project to fully re-nourish and repair all of Treasure Island beach which includes the Sunshine Beach a...

A Liberal Undercover at Fox News

   Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up next we'll meet a liberal who, for eight years, worked at FOX News. But first two listener comments about last Friday''s interview with the executive director of Humanists of Florida. 

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Our next guest- Joe Muto graduated with a liberal arts degree from Notre Dame University and headed east to New York. There he worked at FOX News for eight years and leaked some of the secrets of its innerworkings to the web ...

Manatee County votes Tuesday on sales tax referendum to fund indigent health care

Residents in Manatee County will vote Tuesday whether to fund emergency health care for the poor with a half-penny sales tax hike. Mary Ruiz is the president and CEO of a non-profit mental health and addiction center that treats uninsured people. She’s worried that if voters reject the plan, some people will go without life-saving health services.

“What the half penny sales tax represents is a plan to continue crisis health services for people who are the working poor who don’t have insur...

US Rep. Kathy Castor blasts Republican colleagues for proposal to cut more than $20 billion from Food Stamp program

A House version of the federal Farm Bill would cut more than $20 billion from programs that provide food assistance to low-income families and some individuals. Tampa Bay area member of Congress Kathy Castor, a Democrat, lashed out Monday at House Republicans for going too far.

“They have proposed extreme cuts to SNAP and supplemental nutrition that could have the effect of throwing thousands of children off of food stamps and SNAP.”

Castor said people are c...

Buisness leaders discuss the future of downtown Tampa

A group of business leaders in Tampa are envisioning downtown’s future. The Tampa Downtown Partnership looked at development plans over the next ten years during their 27th Annual Meeting and Luncheon Thursday afternoon at the Tampa Convention Center.

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn has been a champion for revitalizing the downtown business district.

“We have done more in the last two years than has been done in the last decade. Think about what has been accomplished in the last two years. ...

The 50 Worst Charities; and From Methodist to Atheist

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. Coming up today we’ll discuss the recent report by the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting on the 50 Worst Charities in the US.

And later we’ll talk with one of Florida’s leading atheists.

The Tampa Bay Times, CNN and the Center for Investigative Journalism produced a report this week called AMERICA’S WORST CHARITIES. Kris Hundley from the Tampa Bay Times and Kendall ...