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Florida Pricing Higher Education Beyond Reach of Floridians? And What's Causing Algae Outbreaks in Florida?

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Tags: algae, David Guest, Santa Fe River, Caloosahatchee, Bruce Nissen, RISEP, WMNF, Rob Lorei

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today well talk about corporations trying to make it easier to pollute Florida’s freshwater rivers, lakes and springs. We’ll also talk about the burden of the high cost of education here in Florida. But first, two listener comments about yesterday’s program. Yesterday we talked about the militarization and heavy surveillance that accompanied the Republican National Convention four years ago in St. Paul Minnesota. Here’s wha...

Wage Theft: A Multi-Million Dollar Problem Here In Florida

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Tags: wage theft, Cynthia Hernandez, RISEP

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll talk about wage theft here in Florida—are employers paying fair wages to employees. A new study says some are not and the losses to workers are in the millions. Later we’ll talk about an effort to poll Americans on questions that the mainstream media rarely asks- such as whether to develop a Department of peace, whether to close some of the many overseas military bases and whether they favor a single payer health ins...