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Florida US Senate Debate listen
10/25/10 Sarah CurranWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Kendrick Meek, Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio, 2010 election, USF
Yesterday’s US Senate debate gave Florida voters their second to last chance to make a decision on who they want to send to the senate.
A poll released yesterday morning conducted by the St.Petersburg Times, the Miami Herald and Bay News Nine gave Rubio 46% of the vote with Independent Charlie Crist in second place with 26% and Democrat Kendrick Meek trailing with only 20% of the vote.
However, this debate left people unsure of the direction the polls will take in the next 8 day...
Be the first to commentPreview of Florida gubernatorial debate at USF between Sink & Scott listen
10/25/10 Seán Kinane & Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rick Scott, Alex Sink, 2010 election, USF
As Rick Scott and Alex Sink prepare to face off in a gubernatorial debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, we hear from WMNF's Kate Bradshaw on the scene.
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10/21/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, elections, straw poll, Alex Sink, Rick Scott, Kendrick Meek, Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio
Polling may shape many people’s outlook on the upcoming midterm elections, but some say they don’t offer an accurate sampling of who will actually show up at the ballots. Today a mock election took place at the University of South Florida, and the results show a turn to the right.
If the University of South Florida were an accurate representation of Hillsborough County on the whole, Alex Sink would be the next governor, getting 53 percent of the vote to Scott’s 33 – a 20-point margin. All ...
Be the first to commentLittle Bayou Park in South St. Pete benefits from 10-10-10 global work party listen
10/11/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: St Petersburg, parks, invasive species, mangroves, 350.org, climate change, USF, USF St. Pete
Even if you live nearby, you may have never heard of Little Bayou Park. It’s tucked away in a residential corner of southeast St. Petersburg and includes newly restored wetlands, pine flatlands, shoreline and mangroves. Yesterday, as part of the 10/10/10 global work party, students and environmentalists helped restore the park. Megan Demchar is the vice president of SEAS at USF St. Pete, an environmental student group.
Demchar says more t...
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10/07/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, climate change, global warming, activism
The political climate in Florida may often be icy when it comes to the environment, but that’s not curbing action by green activists. An environmental group at USF-St. Pete is greening things up around campus ahead of an international observance of climate change.
Kira Barrera is a spokesperson for USF St. Pete’s Student Environmental Awareness Society, also known as “SEAS.” She says the group had a lot of red tape to cut through in order to do what it’s doing today. You can hear the shove...
Be the first to commentUSF Tampa will host forum for Haiti presidential candidates listen
09/23/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Note: as of Sept. 29, this forum has been moved to Eckerd College in St. Pete. October 16th from 2pm until 4pm in Fox Hall.
The people of Haiti will choose a new president this fall. Like all elections, the candidates will debate. But the location of one forum might take you by surprise: At least ten of the candidates for president of Haiti will debate in October on the campus of the University of South Florida in Tampa.
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Be the first to commentHealth care overhaul six months on - what goes into effect today? listen
09/23/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Barack Obama, Health Care overhaul, Mike Huckabee, USF, single payer, public option
It’s been six months since Congress passed the biggest health care overhaul in nearly four decades. Some on the left say it kowtows to special interests, and doesn’t do enough. Many on the right say it’ll lead the U.S. into socialism – or fascism, or both, depending on who you ask. Advocates are struggling to get the message out on what the plan actually does, and gathered in Tampa this afternoon to discuss what the Affordable Care Act means for Americans.
One problem, said one audience me...
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08/20/10 Lachelle RoddyWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
USF held its 19th annual Latino Scholarship Awards on its Tampa campus last night. The Diversity and Equal Opportunity Office hosts the event every year in order to ensure diversity on campus.
Odette Figueruelo, an alumnus with a master’s in Spanish opened up the night by explaining just how the program impacted her life. Lissette Campos, ABC’s Action News director of community affairs, continued with a speech on the topic: “education is key”.
Be the first to comment“As someone who was told I was too ugly ...
USF scientist: oil plumes from BP well listen
07/26/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil spill, BP oil disaster, David Hallander, USF, Deepwater Horizon
As we reported Friday, a team of Florida researchers has confirmed that two gigantic oil plumes beneath the surface of the gulf are indeed the result of the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Scientists are now trying to see what threat the plumes pose to sea life.
At first getting BP to cough up an oil sample from its broken well wasn’t easy. When they finally did the researchers compared it to microscopic droplets of oil they’d found floating in enormous clusters dozens of miles away from the bl...
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07/23/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP, BP oil spill, Gulf Oil Spill, USF, St. Petersburg
Researchers from the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science in St. Petersburg say they have the first proof that dispersed oil below the surface of the Gulf came from BP’s Deepwater Horizon Well.
The USF researchers say they have used a “chemical fingerprinting process” to identify the source of subsurface clouds of “degraded underwater oil”
Be the first to comment"Essentially we found two layers. The first layer was two miles long by six miles wide, by about 100 feet deep. The second layer ...
