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Was the Iraq War Worth It?
03/12/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Iraq invasion, corruption, wasted tax dollars, Peter Van Buren, inspector general, Stuart Bowen
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll look back at the US invasion of Iraq- which began ten years ago this month. We’ll look at the money we spent on Iraq reconstruction and where that money went.
But first we’ll speak with a former foreign service officer- Peter Van Buren. He spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now he writes about Iraq and the Midd...
Be the first to commentProgressive reaction to former Republican Party of Florida chair Jim Greer's guilty plea listen
02/11/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Jim Greer, Charlie Crist, Republican Party of Florida, corruption, Republicans Susan Smith
Jim Greer, the former head of the Republican Party of Florida, pled guilty to several charges this morning. In doing so he avoids a trial that was supposed to begin today. Greer changed his previous plea from not guilty on theft and money laundering charges to guilty. Several high-ranking Florida Republicans were due to testify during the trial, as was former Governor Charlie Crist, who, when he was a Republican hand-picked Greer to be party chair. Crist has since become a Democrat and may ru...
1 commentsAdvocate claims rampant Florida corruption linked to money in politics listen
05/31/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: League of Women Voters, Darden Rice, Dan Krassner, Integrity Florida, corruption, Enterprise Florida, jobs, corporate greed
Florida has a corruption problem. So a group is leading an ethics reform charge by looking at how tax dollars are spent. In downtown St. Pete local Democrats learned how Dan Krassner is trying to make government more transparent.
“Florida, well above any other state in the country, is number one in federal public corruption convictions between the years 2000 and 2010.”
And that, Krassner said, is the real job killer in Florida.
Be the first to comment“I think businesses look at Florida and they see the...
DEP Staffer Suspended Over Defending Wetlands; New Group In Florida Stands Up For Ethics and Against Corruption
05/29/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: DEP, wetlands, Connie Bersok, Craig Pittman, Integrity Florida, Dan Krassner, Paula Dockery, ethics, corruption
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll hear about the case of a state environmental worker- who was suspended for trying to protect wetlands… and we’ll talk about ethics in Florida government. The state recently received a low grade on a corruption risk scorecard….
But first four listener comments. One about our program last Friday on which we talked about the purge of Florida voter rolls. And two comments about yesterday’s interview with three Vietna...
1 commentsOccupy Tampa holds its third protest in downtown's Gaslight Park listen
10/06/11 Alessandra Da PraWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Tampa, Corruption, Occupy Wall Street, corporate greed, anonymous
An eclectic group of about 250 people from across the Tampa Bay Area and beyond are flocking to Gaslight Park in downtown Tampa today. It’s the third Occupy Tampa event to protest corporate greed, job layoffs, and wars. The grassroots local movement was born in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
Seventy-seven year-old Bobby C. stood behind a sign that read...
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09/26/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Tampa, protests, protesters, economy, economic justice, corruption, Campaign finance, Citizen's United v FEC, Occupy Tampa
Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement for democracy that began on September 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. A Tampa group began similar protests against financial institutions at downtown’s Gaslight Park on Saturday.
Scott Shepard drove from Lakeland to attend the protest after seeing the newly...
22 commentsPoisoning The Press: Richard Nixon v Jack Anderson
06/09/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Poisoning the Press, Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, Mark Feldstein, corruption, Watergate, Drew Pearson, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, homophobia
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. In a moment we’ll discuss the epic struggle between President Richard Nixon and one of the top investigative journalists of the time- Jack Anderson, it’s covered in a new book by Mark Feldstein - an investigative reporter himself who spent part of his career here in the Tampa Bay area.
But first some listener comments about yesterday’s interview with Stetson Law professor Michael Allen about the US Constitution. Here’s what several lis...
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