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Domestic partnership registry rejected by Hillsborough Commission; provide info packet of "Important Life Decisions" instead listen
03/20/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: domestic partnership registry, Hillsborough County Commission, LGBT
The Hillsborough County Commission approved a packet of legal documents put together by Al Higginbotham in lieu of a domestic partnership registry that was struck down last month. Higginbotham said the intent was to provide all people - not just people in relationships - easy and affordable access to rights which are already guaranteed by state statutes.
1 comments"You could put these into a single booklet, if you will. Available in libraries, law libraries, county libraries, maybe on the website...
Should local governments use local banks or credit unions?
03/20/13 Janelle IrwinLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Steve Kornell, St. Pete City Council, Bank of America, Jared Ross, credit unions, buy local
St. Petersburg City Council member Steve Kornell will ask his board members not to renew a contract with Bank of America because he worries some homeowners are being mistreated by the "too big to fail" bank.
Kornell is also backing a measure to use a local bank for some of the city's business.
Right now credit unions are off the table because a state law prohibits local governments to bank with them.
Jared Ross, vice president of governmental affairs for the League of Southeastern ...
Be the first to commentHillsborough officials to look at ways to spend oil spill restoration money listen
03/20/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Hillsborough County Commission, BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, Les Miller, Gulf Coast restoration, oil spill, BP oil disaster, Gulf oil disaster
Hillsborough County commissioners will workshop ideas on how to spend money allocated as a result of the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. It’s not known yet how much money will be allocated to Florida and individual counties for restoration projects because litigation with BP over damages is still happening. Commissioner Les Miller said the eight counties most affected by the oil spill will get the most money, but other gulf coast counties, like Hillsborough, will still get some of the funding.
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Be the first to commentA conversation with Mieshelle Nagelschneider, cat behaviorist and author
03/20/13 Duncan StraussTalking Animals Listen to this entire show:
Mieshelle Nagelschneider– veteran cat behaviorist and author of the new book “The Cat Whisperer: Why Cats Do What They Do– And How To Get Them To Do What You Want” discusses various problematic aspects of the behavior of house cats, and how to remedy them, as well as how "declawing" cats is actually amputating portions of their toes.
Be the first to commentCatherine Barja, first woman elected to Tampa City Council, honored for Women's History Month listen
03/19/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: women, women's issues, Women's History Month, Tampa City Council
Tampa celebrated Women’s History Month Tuesday morning at the Tampa Convention Center.
Catherine Barja, who was the first woman elected to Tampa City Council, was awarded the Josephine Howard Stafford Memorial Award.
Emcee Erica Riggins, a Bay News 9 anchor, noted some recent achievements of women.
Be the first to comment"Since last year's celebration women have achieved many signif...
Hillsborough County School Board gets a lesson from Tampa Police in preventing school shootings listen
03/19/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Candy Olson, Doretha Edgecomb, Hillsborough County Schools, Tampa Police, guns, school shootings
It’s been three months since the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting that claimed the lives of 20 first graders but the tragedy is still fresh on the minds of Hillsborough County school officials. During a school board workshop Tuesday, the Tampa Police Department shared a graphic police training video.
Sorrowful music played over a series of photos from various school shootings. That includes images of the Columbine High School gunmen dead in a pool of their own blood. Tampa Police t...
Be the first to commentProtesters near MacDill AFB bash military for spending to much money on Iraq War and lying listen
03/19/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Iraq, war, war on terror, Veterans for Peace, St. Pete for Peace
Ten years ago, the United States invaded Iraq under the pretense that the nation was harboring Al-Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction. Tuesday, fifteen peace activists including Veterans for Peace organizer Jay D. Alexander protested the invasion and occupation just a mile and a half from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
“We staged an immoral and illegal invasion of that country ten years ago.”
He wasn’t the only who felt deceived by the actions of the U.S. military. Walt Seely, a ...
1 commentsWMNF's Annual Tax Advice Call-In Show
03/19/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: federal income tax advice, public service, CPA's
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Today we'll hear part one of our annual tax advice show. Today we'll take your phone calls and e-mail questions about filling out your federal income tax forms. Our panel members are three certified public accountants: Phil Scheidt, Lee Hewitt and Malcolm Hayes.
Be the first to commentNew GOP Report Says Party Is Narrow Minded, Out of Touch
03/18/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: GOP, Republican Party, narrow minded, scary, stuffy old men, out of touch
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. The web site Politico.com is reporting that "The Republican National Committee concedes in a sprawling report Monday that the GOP is seen as the party of “stuffy old men” and needs to change its ways.
Among the RNC’s proposed fixes: enacting comprehensive immigration reform, addressing middle-class economic anxieties head on and condensing a presidential primary process that saw Mitt Romney get battered for m...
Be the first to commentTwo-hundred mile march for farmworkers' rights doesn't hurdle Publix roadblock listen
03/18/13 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CIW, Publix, workers rights, Fair Food Program, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, immigration, Lakeland
About 1500 farmworkers and their allies completed their 200 mile, two week March for Respect, Rights and Fair food yesterday in Lakeland. They gathered at the headquarters of Publix in hope that the supermarket giant would honor what they’re calling a Fair Food Program.
More than a decade ago south Florida tomato harvesters began a campaign for fair working conditions. Before the Coalition of Immokalee Workers organized, wages had not gone up in more than 20 years and workers are still pa...
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