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Update 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 commentFlorida Senate committee puts domestic partner registry bill on hold listen
02/19/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida Senate, domestic partners, domestic partnership registry, LGBT, marriage equality, Steve Kornell, Tampa, St. Petersburg
A bill to extend some rights to domestic partners was put on hold Tuesday in the Florida Senate Children and Families Committee.
During public comment, St. Petersburg City Council member Steve Kornell asked senators to support it.
Some of the Republicans who oppose the domestic partnership registry bill said they support expanding rights, but this bill goes too far and is too similar to marriage.
The bill’s sponsor Senator Elanor Sobel, a Democrat from Hollywood, said she would brin...
Be the first to commentTampa officials break ground on renovation to old downtown courthouse listen
02/13/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: historic structures, downtown development, Tampa, federal courthouse, Le Meridian
Tampa officials broke ground on renovations to the more than one century old federal courthouse in downtown Wednesday. After a lot of debate over what to do with the historical structure, Mayor Buckhorn got the wheels rolling in 2011 by asking for proposals to turn the building into a high-end hotel. Today, Buckhorn is celebrating what will soon become Le Meridien.
Be the first to comment“I couldn’t be more excited. It’s been vacant and boarded up for ten years, at least. It is the most magnificent structur...
Callers aren't sold on need for new Rays stadium; mixed opinions on gun control
01/30/13 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rays, Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa, St. Pete, Tropicana Field, Hillsborough County Commission, Pinellas County Commission, guns, gun control, NRA
Where will Tampa Bay’s Major League Baseball team play a decade from now?
The team seems to be saying it wants out its lease of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg but wants to stay in the region.
St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster wants the Rays to stay in his city.
This week Pinellas County officials said they are open to the team considering regional options.
The Rays spoke with Hillsborough County Commissioners last week.
We heard from listeners about their opinions.
We also con...
Be the first to commentTampa looks to rezone historic Seminole Heights district listen
01/29/13 Ella WindWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Seminole Heights, Tampa, rezoning, historic district
The plans for rezoning Seminole heights began five years ago. Tim Heberlein, a local activist, attended the Vision Tampa meetings and the previous neighborhood input sessions organized by city officials for Seminole Heights residents. He is excited about the plan.
Be the first to comment“We have some great restaurants down here and to see more light commercial pop up there and different spaces where residents can walk down there, go grab a drink at Ella's and go the record stor...
Hillsborough rejects domestic partner registry listen
01/24/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tampa, Hillsborough County, Hillsborough County Commission, domestic partnership registry, domestic partnership
Today the Hillsborough County Commission rejected the issue of a domestic partnership registry where non-married couples can get a few of the rights that married couples have.
Four Commissioners opposed the idea: Al Higginbotham, Ken Hagan, Victor Crist and Sandra Murman.
Jennifer Gordon is the legislative assistant for Florida Representative Mark Danish and during public comment this morning read a le...
Be the first to commentNew apartment complex offers housing for Tampa's chronically homeless listen
01/24/13 Ella WindWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Homeless, Housing, Mental Healthcare, Cypress Landing, Steps Forward, Rehabilitation, homelessness, Tampa
Two years ago, Tampa government officials began to investigate options for addressing Tampa's homeless population, which numbered around 18,000 people. On Wednesday, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held at Cypress Landing housing complex in North Tampa, the first permanent housing complex for the chronically homeless in Hillsborough County.
The Cypress Landing complex will house the chronically homeless, those who are repeatedly homeless or have been homeles...
2 commentsHillsborough County to consider domestic partner registry
01/23/13 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tampa, Hillsborough County, Hillsborough County Commission, domestic partnership registry, domestic partnership
Hillsborough County Commission will take up the issue of a domestic partnership registry Thursday.
The City of Tampa already has one, as does all of Pinellas County.
Our guests are Sally Phillips, president of the Florida GLBT Democratic Caucus and Ercilia Albistu, President of the Hillsborough County GLBTA Democratic Caucus.
Republican commissioner Mark Sharpe and Democrats Les Miller and Kevin Beckner are expected to support the registry, but it's not known if any of the remainin...
Be the first to commentClean Up Scheduled for University Area Community in Tampa
01/15/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Universitay Area Community, USF, Tampa, Dan Jurman, Avesta Homes, poverty, housing, low wages
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll talk about a community project taking place soon in North Tampa-- it's an effort to improve the lives of people who live in the area near the University of South Florida. But first- one listener comment about yesterday's show. Yesterday we spent much of the hour talking about guns and what to do to reduce gun violence. Here's what one listener had to say:
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This Saturday more than 500 volunteers from busines...
3 commentsTampa rates high on LGBT equality municipal study listen
12/26/12 Olivia KabatWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
A report by the Human Rights Campaign released last month evaluated equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people nationwide. Out of the many cities rated, the Municipal Equality Index scored 11 cities in Florida based on specific criteria and Tampa was the third highest rated Florida city.
The Municipal Equality Index rated 137 municipalities on LGBT equality. Paul Guequierre, Deputy Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign says they evaluated municipal law and policy a...
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