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The 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...
Be the first to commentDemocracy Now!'s Amy Goodman recounts her arrest at 2008 Republican National Convention listen
08/31/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Amy Goodman, WMNF, Republican Convention, journalism, media
Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was keynote speaker at WMNF’s 2nd annual Peace Awards on Saturday. On the Evening News last night we played part of her speech where she criticized opposition to the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan.
Today we play an excerpt of Amy Goodman’s account of her arrest at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
We’ll make Amy Goodman’s e...
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08/30/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: peace, Islam, Park51, Amy Goodman, WMNF
Amy Goodman was keynote speaker at WMNF’s 2nd annual Peace Awards on Saturday. During her half-hour address she spoke about her arrest at the 2008 Republican National Convention, the death of her mother and the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan. Goodman criticized opposition to what some media outlets, like MSNBC, still incorrectly call the “Ground Zero Mosque.”
We’ll make Goodman’s entire speech available as a thank-you gift during our fall f...
9 commentsWMNF layoffs taken back listen
06/30/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: wmnf, layoffs, jobs, Unemployment, Media
Last week we reported that this station, WMNF 88.5 FM, was forced to lay off three employees because of a severe budget shortfall. But shortly before broadcast tonight, station manager Jim Bennett announced that because of voluntary staff benefit reductions and a generous donation unrelated to the layoffs, Bennett had notified the three employees that the layoffs were retracted.
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Facing budget shortfalls WMNF lays off three employees listen
06/23/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: wmnf, Media, layoffs, jobs, Unemployment
Please note the important update to this story on 30 June: the layoffs were taken back.
The economy is hitting everyone hard, especially media organizations. This radio station, WMNF, 88.5 FM has faced economic difficulties in the past and has made budget cuts over the last few years. But for the first time in the station’s 31-year history, WMNF laid off employees yesterday because of budget cuts. We spoke with station manager J...
91 commentsGubernatorial hopeful Paula Dockery speaks about ultrasound bill, education and her opponents listen
05/21/10 Arielle StevensonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: wmnf, Paula Dockery, Bill McCollum, Alex Sink, governor's race
Republican State Senator Paula Dockery spoke at the Tiger Bay Club in St. Petersburg this afternoon as she begins her run in the gubernatorial GOP primary. Dockery is facing off against Attorney General Bill McCollum and wildcard Naples millionaire Rick Scott. Currently, Dockery has a ways to go in early voter GOP primary polls, which show the relatively unknown Scott with 22% and McCollum with 46%. Dockery, who in the same poll had only 3% of the vote, says that politics remains a game of mo...
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05/06/10 Arielle StevensonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: wmnf, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg City Council, Leslie Curran, Herb Polson, Jeff Danner, Bill Foster, economic stimulus, economy
St. Petersburg’s one hundred or more bars and restaurants can keep bar tabs going until three in the morning, thanks to a vote by the city council today. The ordinance to allow sales of alcoholic beverages from 2 a.m. until 3 a.m. passed in a 6-2 vote. Supporters of the ordinance spoke about the increase in revenue and better competition with Tampa. Duffy Iorio has bartended in downtown St. Petersbu...
Be the first to commentGovernor Crist on SB 6 listen
04/09/10 Arielle StevensonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Charlie Crist, SB6, john thrasher, wmnf
Florida House members voted in favor of Senate Bill 6 last night. Now the fate of Senate Bill 6 is in the hands of Gov. Charlie Crist. Last night, Crist was in town speaking to students at USF St. Petersburg.
It was a late night in Florida’s capitol as lawmakers debated Senate Bill 6, which would overhaul how teachers are evaluated in the state’s schools. The debate ended with a 64-55 vote in favor of the legisl...
Be the first to commentGovernor Crist speaks with students at USF St. Pete listen
04/09/10 Arielle StevensonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: wmnf, Charlie Crist, SB6, oil drilling near Florida's coast, Seminole Indians, Gambling
Despite a major education vote on Capitol Hill, Gov. Charlie Crist took time to speak with students last night at USF St. Petersburg.
USF St. Petersburg students enrolled in St. Petersburg Times columnist Howard Troxler’s Florida Politics class were treated to a personal discussion with Crist. Crist’s decisions are often the topics of heated debates every Thursda...
Be the first to commentWhat's the cause of the tense political dialogue in the country right now?
04/08/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Glen Beck, Fox News, hate speech, death threats, Cong. John Lewis, House Speaker Nacy pelosi, Rob Lorei, WMNF
With death threats made to members of Congress and evidence that some people are moved to anger by what they are seeing on television- today we are going to open the phones and talk about the deteriorating political dialogue in this country.
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