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St. Pete residents weigh city budget options listen
04/25/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: St. Pete, budget, Bill Foster, the People's Budget Review
St. Pete officials are taking input from residents on how to manage the city’s money. During the first of three budget summits last night in Northeast St. Pete, residents weighed in on what services and projects they think officials should prioritize. Lou Brown III has worked on a project called the people’s budget review that surveyed more than 500 residents.
2 comments“Ten percent responded with ending racism, segregation and enhancing the southside. Nine percent of responses were Pier related...
Tampa panelists question Cuba's terror designation listen
04/24/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cuba, Cuba-Americans, trade embargo, foreign policy, Kathy Castor
In a decisive move this month, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) announced she want the U.S. to normalize relations with Cuba. During a discussion in Tampa Wednesday, five out of six panelists agreed.
Attorney John Grandoff said the island nation should be removed from the state sponsors of terrorism list.
Grandoff said Cuba wasn’t added to the state sponsor of terrorism list until 1982.
If the U.S. removes Cuba from that list, it opens the door to lift the 50-year long trade embargo. ...
Be the first to commentSome blind people could be cured if medical research continues; foundation simulates blindness to raise funds listen
04/23/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: blindness, blind, St. Pete
Blindness caused by degenerative eye diseases can be slowed or even reversed thanks to breakthroughs in medical research. That’s why the Foundation Fighting Blindness set out to raise funds for clinical trials this month by simulating what it’s like to eat what you can’t see. Foundation spokesperson and Mrs. World April Lufriu said guests of Dining in the Dark at the Vinoy in downtown St. Pete wore a foam and plastic mask for thirty minutes while they tried to enjoy their entrees.
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The Retirement Gamble: Are 401(k) Fees Fair?
04/23/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: high 401(k) fees, Wall Street, Social Security, Frontline, Martin Smith
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. Tonight on PBS a new documentary looks at how 401(k)s are doing more to enrich Wall Street than workers who are using them to save for retirement.
But first- one listener comment about yesterday’s program—on which we discussed a forum on US Cuba relations that will take place in Tampa tomorrow.
Here’s what one listener had to say:
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For most Americans, traditional retirement is now a pipe dream: Six in 10 people believe they'll have to ...
2 commentsVoting rights activists demand stop to legislation that would limit voting assistance listen
04/23/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: elections, voting rights, 2013 legislative session, Jack Latvala
A bill being considered in the Florida Senate would change the way people with special needs can get help casting ballots during elections. During a press conference in front of bill sponsor Senator Jack Latvala’s Clearwater office Tuesday, activists demanded he remove his support of the bill they worry will make it harder for people to get help and burden poll workers. The ACLU’s Central Florida director, Joyce Hamilton Henry calls the measure an invitation for litigation.
The measure w...
Be the first to commentEast Hillsborough Avenue corridor study seeks input to mend high accident statistics listen
04/22/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Hillsborough Avenue, transit, pedestrian safety, Hillsborough County MPO, Gena Torres, transportation
The Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization is conducting a corridor study for part Hillsborough Avenue in response to staggering vehicular and pedestrian accident statistics. In March, the Hillsborough County Commission voted to workshop ideas on how to improve transportation, including road safety.
Transportation planner Gena Torres talks about what might lie ahead for East Hillsborough Avenue.
There will be a [public meeting](http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/r...
Be the first to commentWebsites go black to protest CISPA listen
04/22/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CISPA, Aaron Swartz, cybersecurity, Occupy Wall Street, Internet
The U.S. House passed the cybersecurity bill known as CISPA last week and in a major push today online activists are urging the Senate to reject it. They’re organizing a “CISPA Blackout” today – they’re turning websites and social media avatars black. One activist in Tampa, who agreed to an interview on the condition we not use her name because she is concerned about retribution for her organizing, has been involved in the [Occupy Wa...
2 commentsNew Film Looks at Continuing Problems From BP Oil Disaster in Gulf; and Tampa Business Group Holding Forum on Cuba This Week
04/22/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: continuing problems from Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP oil spill, fish tumors, DIRTY ENERGY, Cuba as state psonsor of terrorism, Tampa conference, Steve Michelini
Good morning, Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Today is Earth Day…..Coming up this past weekend marked the third anniversary of the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. BP is telling us things are back to normal. But a new film suggests that not all is well with the Gulf of Mexico. We’ll talk with the film’s director. And we’ll talk about a forum on US Cuba relations that will take place this Wednesday in Tampa…..
But first- several listener comments about the presumed religiou...
Be the first to commentVenezuelan ex-pats rally in Tampa for a recount of election their candidate lost listen
04/19/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, Henrique Capriles, Hugo Chavez, elections
Last night in downtown Tampa about 50 Venezuelan ex-pats banged pots and pans and waved Venezuelan flags at motorists passing by Curtis Hixon Park.
They boisterously supported the loser of the recent presidential election, Henrique Capriles.
They're asking for a full recount of the election narrowly won by Nicolas Maduro.
Yesterday officials said they would do an audit of the results.
WMNF interviewed Karina Celis, a sociologist from Caracas who lives in Tampa.
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Be the first to commentScientists, officials say the Gulf of Mexico still in trouble three years after BP oil disaster listen
04/19/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, 2010 oil spill, oil spill, Kathy Castor, Bill Nelson
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday she will sue BP on Saturday, the three-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
During a press conference on downtown St. Pete’s waterfront Friday before Bondi's announcement, elected officials and environmental groups said there’s still a lot of recovering to do.
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson wants to make sure BP is held accountable for the 2010 oil disaster by making sure the fine ass...
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