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Tampa International Airport plans to shift car rental location to free up terminal space listen
12/20/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Joe Lopano, Tampa International Airport, transit, transportation, light rail, Cuba
Tampa International Airport officials are making plans for future growth and some of the changes could happen pretty soon. The airport’s CEO told Tampa City Council members this morning that rental car facilities will likely be moved in order to free up parking spaces and cut down on road congestion around the main terminal.
The new rental car facility would be built near the post office and economy parking lots on the south side of the airport property. Tampa airport’s CEO [Joe Lopano](...
3 commentsSome in Tampa want to lift Cuba trade embargo listen
08/21/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cuba, Al Fox, Kathy Castor, League of Women Voters, trade, trade embargo
A lot of people in Florida are coming around to the idea of reducing trade and travel restrictions with Cuba. People can now catch a direct flight from Tampa to Havana, but there’s still a lot of red tape and most trade is still off limits. On Tuesday, a panel of political and business professionals discussed reasons why it’s time to lift the longstanding trade embargo. Al Fox, president of the Alliance for responsible Cuba Policy Foundation, said it’s time for the U.S. to bury the hatchet...
1 commentsCuba through eyes of an American Arab Muslim
05/18/12 Samar JarrahTrue Talk Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cuba
Due to popular demand, True Talk dedicated the hour to my 8-day trip to Cuba. It generated many phone calls and comments. Hope you will listen and let me know what you think. I wasn’t able to cover one third of what I had planned to talk about!
Here are some comments received while on the air
We are hanging on every word you say. We want to hear YOUR experiences with the most recent news. We want to hear what YOU saw, not more arguments from the exile community.
*A great take o...
Be the first to commentGovernor Rick Scott signs bill restricting major FL contracts with Cuba or Syria
05/01/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rick Scott, Cuba, 2012 Legislature, Syria
Today Florida Governor Rick Scott signed HB 959, "An act relating to state and local government relations with Cuba or Syria."
In a statement, the Governor's office wrote:
Be the first to commentHouse Bill 959 lays the groundwork to prevent state and local governments from entering contracts worth $1 million or more with businesses operating in Cuba and Syria.
“The records of the Castro and Assad governments are undeniably oppressive, and have worked in ways that are counter to American interests,” Gove...
Zirin hits back against Miami Marlins suspension of Guillen for Castro comments listen
04/10/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Miami, Cuba, baseball, MLB, Dave Zirin, Fidel Castro
Today Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins suspended their manager Ozzie Guillen. The infraction? Paying a compliment to former Cuban president Fidel Castro. Guillen has apologized for telling Time magazine he loves Castro. Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports and is critical of the Marlins and the right-wing Cuban exile community in Miami for their witch-hunt of Guillen. Zirin is ...
5 commentsUniversity of Tampa group takes educational trip to Cuba, despite ongoing US trade embargo listen
02/23/12 Liz McKibbonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cuba, Travel, University of Tampa, Cuban history, embargo
Despite the ongoing U.S. embargo of Cuba, it’s now easier for educational trips to the island. A group of University of Tampa students and professors traveled to Cuba as part of a cultural studies class. They presented their experiences to a standing-room-only crowd at UT’s Vaughn Center Wednesday.
Seventeen students and three professors made the trip f...
Be the first to commentIn Tampa Marco Rubio defends his characterization of parents' flight from Cuba listen
10/27/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Marco Rubio, Cuba, Cuban-Americans, debt ceiling, 9/11 attacks, 9/11, Occupy Tampa
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio made his first official trip to the Tampa Bay Area today. The purpose of his visit was to field questions from the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce about policy in Washington D.C., but he came under fire for the ongoing scandal surrounding inconsistencies in his life story.
The second sentence of Marco Rubio’s biography posted on h...
Be the first to commentControvery over Senator Marco Rubio's claim to be a refugee from Castro
10/21/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday)
Tags: Marco Rubio, Patrick Manteiga, Cuba, Fidel Castro, wet foot dry foot policy
The AP is reporting:
3 comments"Freshman U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is dismissing allegations he embellished his family's history by claiming his parents were exiles.
"The Florida political leader has always publicly identified as part of the Cuban exile community. His Senate website says his parents came to America following Fidel Castro's 1959 takeover.
"But media reports Thursday revealed they'd emigrated to the U.S. in 1956. Rubio's father was a bartender and came for economi...
Florida Orchestra heads to Havana for historical music and education exchange listen
09/29/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cuba, music, Cuban revolution, Cuban history, Cuban embargo, Florida, Tampa, Culture, tampa international airport
This morning marked another milestone in Tampa Bay’s reconnection with Cuba. The Florida Orchestra sent five musicians from its wind ensemble to Havana to perform and teach master classes. This is the first time in 12 years that a professional American orchestra has sent musicians to Cuba, and only the second time since the 1959 revolution.
Flowing fanfares from fellow musicians in the brass quintet were a fine farewell for the members of the Florida O...
Be the first to commentTampa City Council votes to write letter to Cuba's ambassador listen
09/22/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cuba, Cuban-Americans, Cuban embargo, Cuba embargo, Cuba relations, Cuba-US relations, Tampa, Tampa City Council
This month Tampa International Airport resumed direct flights to Cuba. The temporary chair of City Council, Mary Mulhern was one of the first members of Tampa’s government to visit the country. The Council voted yesterday to send a letter to the Cuban ambassador expressing Tampa’s desire to interact more with the Caribbean country.
Mary Mulhern wants the Tampa Port to handle a higher percent...
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