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Students from Dream Defenders head to Tallahassee to deliver a more telling State of the State address listen
03/04/13 Lisa MarzilliWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Dream Defenders, State of the State, Florida legislature, Governor Rick Scott
Activists from across the state are gearing up for protests as the Florida Legislature begins its 2013 session on Tuesday. It’s also the day Governor Rick Scott will deliver his State of the State address. One group plans to deliver their own address - one they say is a sobering, more telling version of the current state of life for most Floridians.
The Dream Defenders are a coalition of black and brown students from colleges throughout the state who believe...
Be the first to commentManatee Couple's Home Raided Because They Were Growing Medical Marijuana; Tampa Tribune Report Raises Questions About Jeb Bush Foundation
03/04/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: medical marijuana, Bob and Cathy Jordan, Manatee County, Jeb Bush, William March
Good morning and welcome to Radioactivity.Today we'll talk with Bob and Cathy Jordan who grow medical marijuana to help alleviate Cathy's ALS symptoms. their home was raided by Manatee Sheriff's deputies last week. And we'll speak with Tampa Tribune reporter William March who broke a story this past weekend about whether a Foundation founded by Jeb Bush is skirting rules that try to prevent government officials from using lobbyist money to attend conferences. The allegation is that Jeb's educ...
Be the first to commentVegetable gardening & ants
03/04/13 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Community Supported Agriculture, community farms, ants, vegetable gardens, gardening, farming
Our first guest was with the Insect Research Program with the University of Central Florida. Dr. Joshua King is an entomologist that specializes in ant research. Our conversation was about fire ants and possible controls of these pests in the backyard vegetable garden. Hot water, baits and mound treatments were some of Josh’s recommendations, but he was pretty clear that grits don’t work.
The remainder of the program we spent talking with two women involved locally with growing vegetabl...
Be the first to commentAuthor Nima Shirazi calls Hollywood blockbuster "Argo" ahistorical listen
03/04/13 Mary Glenney and Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Argo, Nima Shirazi, Wide Asleep in America, Iran
The Hollywood drama Argo won three academy awards. The official movie website describes the film as:
“Based on real events, the dramatic thriller “Argo” chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis, focusing on the little-known role that the CIA and Hollywood played—information that was not declassified until many years after the event.”
But the “based on real events” part of that is questioned by so...
Be the first to commentAwake the State Planning Voting Reform Rallies Across Florida Next Tuesday
03/01/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: voter suppression, voting reform, eraly voting, Awake the State, Kofi Hunt, Mike Long
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll discuss rallies planned next Tuesday across the state calling for voting reform. During last November's elections (and in the weeks before) voters in several Florida counties faced long lines. By some estimates hundreds of thousands of people became discouraged and did not vote because of new voting hurdles imposed by the state government. The progressive activist group Awake the State...
1 commentsFarmworkers will march for rights, respect and fair food listen
03/01/13 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, worker's rights, Fair Food Agreement, Publix
The Coalition of the Immokalee Workers is starting its two week march for rights, respect and free food this Sunday. They are again calling on Publix to support human rights for Florida tomato-pickers. Farmworkers and their supporters will march 175 miles to draw attention to their cause.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, together with eleven major food corporations have established a partnership called the Fair Food Program to prevent sub-poverty wages, wage theft, sexual harassment and...
Be the first to commentExpert says moms and dads should listen to their babies as part of early childhood education listen
03/01/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: education, childhood, infants, preschool
As President Barack Obama pushes for more early childhood education including free preschool for four-year-olds, some psychologists are looking into ways to start the educational process as early as infancy. James Mchale is the professor and chair of psychology at USF St. Pete. He is also the director of the family study center. He’s spoke at USF St. Pete about the lasting impacts of listening to babies on their future education.
Be the first to commentTampa City Council wants more solutions for pedestrian safety listen
02/28/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: biking, pedestrians, safety, traffic, Tampa, bicycle, Tampa City Council, Florida DOT, FDOT, Florida Department of Transportation, transportation, roads, transit
Tampa is consistently ranked in the top five most dangerous metropolitan areas for bicycle and pedestrian deaths.
A recent accident where a child was killed crossing a section of Busch Boulevard that lacks crosswalks prompted a discussion on safety at Tampa City Council Thursday morning.
Tampa City Council member Mary Mulhern questioned Debbie Hunt from the Florida Department of Transportation.
Be the first to commentUpdate on timeline of last week's water pressure failure and boil water notice in Tampa listen
02/28/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: water, City of Tampa, Tampa, Tampa City Council, TECO
Last Friday the City of Tampa lost power to a water treatment plant.
It caused a loss of pressure and a precautionary boil water notice that lasted until Sunday morning.
Thursday morning Tampa City Council members heard a revised timeline of how the problem developed from Tampa Water Department director Brad Baird, beginning with what happened after a squirrel chewed through a power supply line and the water treatment plant had to draw all of is electricity from a second power line.
Be the first to commentFarmworkers Plan Major March to Publix; and Peter Breggin MD on the Danger of Psychiatric Drugs
02/28/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CIW, Publix, tomatoes, Peter Breggin, mass shootings, psychiatric drugs
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll speak with a leading expert on mental illness and psychiatric drugs…
And we’ll talk with an organizer of a 200 mile march from Fort Myers to the Publix Headquarters in Lakeland to demand better wages for farmworkers….
But first just a note about our fund drive- we ended our seven day Winter fund drive yesterday and came up about $18,000 short. Since then listeners who missed the seven day drive have been...
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