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St. Pete groups ready to lobby officials for improved curbside recycling program listen
04/16/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: recycling, St. Pete, League of Women Voters, environment, sustainability, Sierra Club, St. Pete Chamber of Commerce
The city of St. Petersburg doesn’t offer free curbside recycling to residents; some community-based groups are pulling together to change that. The League of Women Voters of St. Petersburg has hired a consultant to look into the feasibility of universal curbside recycling in the city. The group’s president, Karen Coale, announced the results during a press conference in front of City Hall Tuesday morning.
Be the first to comment“Curbside recycling is the norm throughout all of the other 49 populated cities i...
Boston Marathon explosives were loaded with shrapnel inside pressure cookers listen
04/16/13 APWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Boston Marathon, terrorism, Barack Obama, FBI, Boston
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said this morning there were 176 casualties, 17 of them in critical condition, and three fatalities from yesterday’s bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
President Barack Obama said today the deadly bombings were an act of terrorism but investigators do not know if they were carried out by an international or domestic organization, or perhaps by an individual.
Be the first to comment"This was a heinous and cowardly act. And given what we now know about ...
Pinellas begins its domestic partnership registry listen
04/16/13 Samuel JohnsonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: domestic partership registry, LGBT, Pinellas County, St. Pete, equality, human rights
Monday non-married couples in Pinellas were able to sign up for the county’s new domestic partner registry. The four different branches of the Clerk of Courts were prepared for a large influx of registrations, but the rush didn’t occur.
By the end of yesterday, fewer than ten couples had signed up on the first day of countywide registration. Rod Tabler, manager of the Saint Petersburg branch office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, said he wasn’t surprised ...
Be the first to commentTax reform tackled from all angles listen
04/15/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Neal Boortz, Susan Nilon, Dan Mitchell, Fair Tax, Flat Tax, Progressive Tax, Vern Buchanan
People who disagree on how to make the federal tax structure better agree that something needs to be done. Republican member of Congress Vern Buchanan hosted a panel discussion in Sarasota last week to stir debate over how to best collect the nation’s tax revenue.
“The world has changed. We’ve got to do everything we can to empower our small businesses, medium size businesses, our pass through entities to make sure that they can compete, not just here, but in the world.”
Some conserv...
Be the first to commentTax Day protest may get blamed for I-4 crash listen
04/15/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tampa Light Brigade, Overpass Light Brigade, tax day, taxes, Occupy Tampa, Tax Evaders
A traffic accident early this morning may get blamed on a demonstration on U.S. 301 over I-4 may. Tax day protesters lined the overpass with light up signs demonizing big corporations for not paying their fair share of taxes.
Back-lit posters spelled out the words ‘U paid more taxes than Verizon.’ The group of a dozen activists wanted to send a message to people on their Monday morning commute to work that wealthy corporations exploit tax loopholes. Just as activists were about to swit...
6 commentsTax Resistance and A Call for Corporations and the Wealthy to Pay Their Fair Share
04/15/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: tax fairness, peace activist, Ed Hedemenn, tax protestor, NWTRCC, PICO, Kevin King, corporate tax breaks, hiding profits offshore
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei.
Today is the deadline for individuals to file their federal income tax returns…. We’ll talk with a tax protestor in a moment.
Later—there are several protests around the bay area today—and hundreds more around the country- calling on corporations to pay their fair share of taxes—we’ll talk with someone who is taking part in a protest against corporate tax avoidance…
Our first guest is peace activist Ed Hedemann who on moral g...
Be the first to commentTax Day protests in Tampa and St. Pete blast wealthy corporations that evade taxes listen
04/15/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Progress Energy Florida, Progress Energy, Duke Energy, BP, Bank of America, Exxon, Verizon, tax dodgers, tax evaders, taxes, Tax Day
Wealthy corporations have access to tax loopholes that many individuals and small businesses can’t get. Tax Day protests on both sides of the bay this morning had activists lashing out at what they call tax evaders.
About a dozen activists in Tampa were up before the sun to light up the U.S. 301 overpass over I-4. Back-lit posters spelled out the words ‘U paid more taxe$ than Verizon’.
“You and I are paying taxes and all these huge corporations are not paying taxes.”
That’s a Tam...
Be the first to commentRecycling & rare fruit
04/15/13 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gardening, fruit, recycling
We started today’s show with Phil Hughes, Account Manager for Creative Recycling. They recycle all kinds of electronic equipment and small appliances—excluding large white goods such as refrigerators and stoves. The WMNF Radio Station, located at 1210 E Martin Luther King Blvd., is temporarily a drop-off point for Creative to pick up your used electronic devices. This ends April 22, Earth Day.
We spent the rest of the hour with Paul Zamoda with the [Tampa...
Be the first to commentUSF students demand no more tuition hikes, they sit in for the 4th Friday in a row listen
04/12/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, tuition, budget cuts, education, Indiana University, strike, Judy Genshaft, SDS
Some USF students have been staging sit-ins at the University of South Florida in Tampa for four Fridays in a row. Even though the group today was small, they were still demanding that the USF president start working with them to meet their list of demands.
The group piles into the Patel Center lobby every Friday at lunchtime. They stay until the building is about to close and the last employees are going home. But Students like Matthew Hastings most want to talk to is president Judy Ge...
Be the first to commentFormer Pentagon official defends U.S. use of drones listen
04/11/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Michael James Barton, Brian Moore, drones, Stetson University College of Law, war on terror, Pentagon
A former Pentagon official is defending the United States’ use of drones. During a lecture Thursday at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Michael James Barton blamed criticism of the unmanned aircraft on media that sensationalize perceived future threats associated with using new technology.
Be the first to comment“The Spartans were really, really upset that the Athenians used arrows because how dare they, we can’t even see the enemy, they’re coming from afar. You don’t face your enemy with courage...
