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Operation Medicine Cabinet nets hundreds of pounds of prescription drugs for disposal listen
04/29/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Operation Medicine Cabinet, prescription drugs, drugs, Hillsborough County Sheriff
Tampa Bay area residents turned in hundreds of pounds of unwanted prescription drugs on Saturday.
Rich Mills is a sergeant with Tampa Police Department.
He oversaw the Operation Medicine Cabinet collection at a Sweetbay Supermarket on North Dale Mabry Hwy.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said at two locations they collected 74 boxes – about 1300 pounds – of unwanted drugs, almost double what they collected last September.
The take-back initiative was also supported by th...
Be the first to commentTampa City Council passes impound fee on prostitution and drug charges listen
12/15/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Prostitution, drugs, Mary Mulhern, Yvonne Yolie Capin, Charlie Miranda, Bob Buckhorn, Tampa City Council, Tampa Police
Tampa City Council passed an ordinance Thursday morning they hope will reduce prostitution and drug slinging in neighborhoods. The so-called John ordinance allows police to impound vehicles used in those crimes. The fee to get the car back will be $500.
During the first reading early this month, Council member [Mary Mulhern](http://www.tampagov.net/dept_city_council/about_us/Mary_...
1 commentsDiscussion of the high cost of a college education and local law enforcement spies on hydroponics shoppers
12/05/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: college costs, student debt, college loans, Tamara Draut, Deomos, drugs
Two topics today: first we'll discuss the rising cost of a college education. We'll talk with Tamara Draut who is a vice president at DEMOS. She's the co-author of a new study on the cost of college. Among other things the study found: "...most U.S. adults age 18 to 34 also view college as harder to afford than just five years ago. They feel that people are leaving school with too much debt, and they oppose proposals to cut federal student aid, according to a survey released today by three ...
Be the first to commentPublic employees sue FL Gov. Rick Scott over order to drug test state workers listen
06/01/11 Sean KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: ACLU, Rick Scott, drug testing, drugs, unions, state workers, public employees
A public workers union and a state employee from St. Pete are suing Governor Rick Scott because of an executive order requiring random drug testing of all state workers. A lawyer from the ACLU of Florida is joining with Peter Walsh, a Miami trial lawyer, to represent the plaintiffs.
3 comments"Executive order 11-58 calls for random drug testing. It requires the state to set up a regime of random drug testing for all state empl...
Randy Heine running for Pinellas County Sheriff on marijuana legalization platform listen
05/20/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: marijuana, drugs, Pinellas County Sheriff, Everett Rice, Robert Gualtieri, Randy Heine
After the 2012 elections Pinellas County residents will have a new Sheriff in town. In a field of other candidates, Randy Heine announced his bid for Pinellas County Sheriff this morning at the Supervisor of Elections office in Largo.
Randy Heine wants to change the face of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office: by supporting and proposing policies that aim to legalize marijuana for both medicinal and recreational use. It’s a stance he’s always had, but this morning he made official his p...
Be the first to commentFAST assembly addresses citizen's concerns listen
04/08/08 Jamie KidderWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: religion, drugs, affordable housing, education
Faith and Action for Strength Together (FAST) is a Pinellas County faith-based orginization that works toward community justice.
FAST held its annual Nehemiah Action Assembly in Largo last night, where local community leaders, members of law enforcement and local government officials were invited to answer questions about issues that FAST members feel should be addressed.
The topics included education, affordable housing and crime. Members of FAST asked a series of yes-or-no questions t...
Be the first to commentNew report, same old story on race and drug sentences listen
12/10/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: drugs, racial disparities
Last week a report came out showing that blacks are far more likely to be locked up for drug offenses than whites.
Robert Batey is a professor of criminal law at Stetson University College of Law. He’s reacting to the report from the Washington-based Justice Policy Institute, which after examining nearly 200 of the nation's largest counties, found that 97 percent had racial disparities in drug incarceration rates.
Overall, African Americans were 10 times more likely than whites to be i...
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