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Rick Perry campaign organizes in Tampa and Ron Paul v. Bernie Sanders on FEMA
08/30/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rick Perry, Wes Maddox, Bernie Sanders, Ron Paul, FEMA, WMNF, Rob Lorei
Coming up today we'll talk with Wes Maddox one of the organizers of a recent grassroots organizing meeting of the Rick Perry presidential campaign. We'll also hear two views on the proper role of the federal government in hurricane recovery: Ron Paul v. Bernie Sanders. Later we'll open the phone lines for your calls.
Be the first to commentAmerica's infrastructure investment is trailing behind rest of world
08/17/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Marcia Hale, infrastructure spending, Build America's Future, wmnf, Rob Lorei
First up today a new report is raising alarms about infrastructure spending in the us. A new report from Build America's Future says the consequences of continuing to ignore long-term infrastructure needs could have huge consequences for America's future. In a new report released Aug. 8 by Building America's Future -- an advocacy group founded by former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and independent New York Mayor Michael Bloom...
Be the first to commentHow to solve the federal deficit; and a campaign to have ordinary people call the Governor's office
08/12/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday)
Tags: federal deficit, Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer, Rick Scott, robo calls, Florida Watch Action, Susannah Randolph, wmnf, Rob Lorei
Governor Rick Scott has been sending robocalls out to Florida residents—touting the positive things he’s done since taking office earlier this year. Now there’s a campaign to have average Floridians tell the governor what they’ve been experiencing since he took over in Tallahassee…
And is there a relatively simple fix for the federal budget deficit? Our first guest says there is.
But first some listener comments about yesterday’s program. Yesterday we featured a spokesperson for Citizen...
3 commentsTop prosecutor makes case for agnosticism
07/19/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Divinity of Doubt, Vincent Bugliosi, atheism, fundamentalism, agnosticism, wmnf, Rob Lorei
No subject has been argued about more vehemently than God and religion. On today's program veteran lawyer Vincent Bugliosi applies his legal reasoning skills to the question of God. Making a case for agnosticism has written Divinity of Doubt: The God Question an indictment of God, theism, and atheism. He joins us live.
Be the first to commentThe extent of health problems caused by BP disaster
01/07/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil disaster, dispersants, VOC's, Gulf of mexico, health effects, Dahr Jamail, WMNF
Yesterday the presidential commission on the BP disaster issued some initial findings of its investigation. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail is writing investigative pieces on the Gulf oil disaster for Al Jazeera and other outlets. He says:
Be the first to comment"While the commission report has been released, untold numbers of people living along the Gulf Coast continue to get sick as a direct result of exposure to BP's toxic chemicals in their dispersants and crude oil. Dr. Rodney Soto, a medical doctor in...
Former Reagan Official: House members who read the US Constitution yesterday do not understand it
01/07/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bruce Fein, U.S. Constitution, WMNF, Iraq, Afghanistan, health care reform, assassination, presidential power
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Yesterday on the floor of the House, members of Congress read the US Constitution.
Here to comment is Bruce Fein, He was Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Reagan and is author of the new book "American Empire: Before the Fall." He recently wrote a piece titled "Ten Congressional Commandments," which states:
Be the first to comment"The Constitution exclusively empowers Congress to authorize the initiation of war under Article I, Section ...
WMNF station manager Jim Bennett on Transmitter/Antenna project; Grayson challenges the rich
11/18/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Alan Grayson, taxes, tea party, Facebook, WMNF
Good afternoon, welcome to WMNF's Radioactivity program. I'm Rob Lorei.
Our station manager Jim Bennett will discuss our transmitter/antenna project that will temporarily reduce our signal strength and, eventually, improve it.
We'll also talk about aggressive debt collectors who are using Facebook to hunt down their targets.
We'll hear a short speech about tax breaks from member of Congress Alan Grayson and we'll look at Tea Party backed congress members who are recipients of farm...
Be the first to commentGrassroots group challenges Supreme Court decision and corporate power
09/16/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: David Cobb, Move To Amend, Citizen's United, coportae power, WMNF
The 2004 Green Party presidential candidate, David Cobb, who is an attorney and an expert on the Constitution, will be in the Tampa Bay area the next few days as part of an effort to build a movement against growing corporate power.
The target of his concern is the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United vs. FEC that removed limits on corporate political contributions.
Cobb is part of a group called Move to Amend, which wants to amend the U.S. Constit...
Be the first to commentSupporters and opponents debate Hillsborough's proposed transportation tax
09/14/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Hillsborough County, Moving Hillsborough Forward, Tea Party, No Tax for Trax, David Singer, Sharon Calvert, WMNF
Good afternoon, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today: a debate on the proposal to increase the sales tax one cent and to use the money to improve transportation in Hillsborough County. Among the projects to be paid for? A light rail system. At one time Tampa had a street car system on rails that served much of the central core of the city. It was dismantled in the middle of the 20th Century and since then Tampa and Hillsborough County have been reliant on an ever growing n...
5 commentsThe state of the labor movement
09/01/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: labor unions, West Central Florida Federation of Labor, Cheryl Shroeder, aaron Carmella, WMNF
Good afternoon, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. This coming Monday the country celebrates Labor Day, and we're going to meet two members of the local labor movement in a moment. But first we'll hear a portion of a speech given at Harvard earlier this year by Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, about the state of working people.
Our guests today are Aaron Carmella with the Hillsborough Central Labor Council and Cheryl Schroeder, Executive Director of the [West Central...
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