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Boston Bombing
04/19/13 Ahmed BedierTrue Talk Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Boston, Terror, Islam, Religion
Discussion and opinion on the latest updates on the Boston bombing.
Be the first to commentVenezuelan ex-pats rally in Tampa for a recount of election their candidate lost listen
04/19/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, Henrique Capriles, Hugo Chavez, elections
Last night in downtown Tampa about 50 Venezuelan ex-pats banged pots and pans and waved Venezuelan flags at motorists passing by Curtis Hixon Park.
They boisterously supported the loser of the recent presidential election, Henrique Capriles.
They're asking for a full recount of the election narrowly won by Nicolas Maduro.
Yesterday officials said they would do an audit of the results.
WMNF interviewed Karina Celis, a sociologist from Caracas who lives in Tampa.
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Be the first to commentScientists, officials say the Gulf of Mexico still in trouble three years after BP oil disaster listen
04/19/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, 2010 oil spill, oil spill, Kathy Castor, Bill Nelson
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday she will sue BP on Saturday, the three-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
During a press conference on downtown St. Pete’s waterfront Friday before Bondi's announcement, elected officials and environmental groups said there’s still a lot of recovering to do.
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson wants to make sure BP is held accountable for the 2010 oil disaster by making sure the fine ass...
Be the first to commentSt. Pete's iconic Pier still set to close on May 31 despite objections listen
04/19/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: St. Pete City Council, the Pier, the Lens, Charlie Gerdes, Leslie Curran, Jim Kennedy, Wengay Newton, WOW St. Pete, Concerned Citizens of St. Pete
The St. Pete Pier will close at the end of May despite numerous objections. In a city council meeting Thursday, all but one council member refused to consider keeping the pier open until residents vote on the Pier’s future.
Council member Wengay Newton made a motion to stave off the lock and chain, but it died for a lack of a second. Newton wanted to keep the Pier open to save jobs. During a workshop earlier in the day city staff were charged wit...
Be the first to commentCall in show: Boston Marathon bombing has one dead suspect, one living and the Senate kills gun measure
04/19/13 Janelle IrwinLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Boston Marathon, terrorism, guns, background checks
Two men of Chechnya decent were identified by the FBI. One of those men has reportedly been killed; the other is still at large. The dead suspect was said to have been wearing a bomb. The two men – or boys depending on how old you are – I’m kind of thinking boys is the better description- they are accused of all sorts of shenanigans including knocking over a 7-11, hijacking a car and temporarily kidnapping the owner, and killing an MIT police officer. Media outlets have reported that base...
Be the first to commentTampa activists hold prayer vigil for victims of Boston Marathon bombings listen
04/18/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Boston Marathon, Tampa
On Wednesday night in downtown Tampa, 15 people lit candles and shared stories about Boston.
Underneath a flag at half-mast in front of the federal courthouse, organizers led prayers for the victims of Monday's Boston Marathon terror attack.
It was billed as "Praying for Boston, Interfaith Vigil."
Here are more photos of the vigil.
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Be the first to commentTampa Dream Defenders ask Tampa City Council to support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants listen
04/18/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tampa Dream Defenders, Tampa City Council, immigration, deportations
Undocumented immigrants in Florida cannot legally drive. Thursday morning a group called the Dream Defenders asked Tampa City Council to adopt a resolution supporting a change in state law.
Alekos Zambrano presented an idea called “licenses for all” to city council members.
“For the 1.5 million undocumented immigrants in Florida and in counties like Miami-Dade county for one, 70% of the misdemeanors that they receive and end up getting deported for are traffic related.”
The push t...
1 commentsLocal Union Activists Plan Event with Joe Burns Author of Strike
04/18/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: low wages, minimum wage, strikes, organized labor
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. On the first part of today's program- an interview with local labor activist Dustin Ponder. The West Central Florida Federation of Labor and The Young Workers of Florida are sponsoring a talk by author Joe Burns (STRIKE: How Working Poeple Can Regain Power and Transform America) this weekend at IBEW 824 this saturday at 1PM in Tampa. We'll talk with Ponder about the event and labor's campaign to stop wage theft in Florida.
Be the first to commentLast Call with Dan Gelber, former Florida State Senator, candidate for Attorney General
04/18/13 Patricia KempLast Call Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Dan Gelber, Rick Scott, redistricting, public education, charter schools
Pat Kemp interviews Dan Gelber, the former Florida Senator that the Wall Street Journal called “Jeb Bush’s chief nemesis,” and who Jeb said “would make a very well qualified Governor. “
On the Last Call, Gelber talks about the challenge to redistricting in which Dan Gelber is representing plaintiffs challenging the way redistricting was implemented and which is scheduled for trial in August, 2013.
He also discusses the state of education in Florida -- "testing is not teaching." As w...
Be the first to commentEllen Shaffer talks about social security
04/18/13 Ellen Shafferwith Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Ellen Shaffer, the co-director of the Center for Policy Analysis, an independent organization conducting research and advocacy in the interest of public health, talks about the proposed changes in social security in the context of the present budget discussions. She explained the chained- CPI which is the proposed new standard to determine cost of living increases. She pointed out how statistics have shown that, on average, this will be 0.3 percent less than the present levels. She is concer...
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