This week is St. Pete Pride, one of the South’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations; the Tampa Bay Times reports that police are investigating threats against the Pride weekend posted on social media. To find out what to expect in events tonight through Sunday, WMNF News spoke with Luke Blankenship, executive director with St. Pete Pride about… Read more »
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Dartmouth Professor Describes Long Term Trends in the US that Resulted in Trump Victory
There’s a fierce debate in this country about why Donald Trump narrowly won the 2016 presidential election. What led to the Trump victory? The real estate mogul and reality TV star was able to break through in traditionally Democratic leaning states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. He also won in Florida by 113,000 votes over… Read more »
28 students “die-in” outside Marco Rubio’s Tampa office to protest inaction on gun violence
At noon today 28 people – most of them high school students – laid silent and motionless on the sidewalk in front of the Federal Building in downtown Tampa. The demonstration in front of the building where Senator Marco Rubio’s office is located is part of a nationwide series of die-ins to protest inaction on… Read more »
WMNF Billboards are all around the Tampa Bay area #LastLocal
You can see our billboards all over, but especially in Hillsborough. We have one down south of the Skyway, and a few in Pinellas, and are up in Pasco & over in Polk. If you post pictures of the billboard on Instagram or tweet them, please use #LastLocal or @wmnf_tampa [IG] @wmnf [Twitter]. Or send us… Read more »
The Brain + Math + Natasha Tells All! on Life Elsewhere
Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist, and poet, he joins Life Elsewhere to discuss his latest book The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity. “They thought that the brain was too sophisticated for its own good. That during evolution, it became so complex that… Read more »
Tampa Bay students will “die-in” to protest gun violence
This coming Tuesday is the second anniversary of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando; it’s also the date of coordinated “die-ins” across the country led by students enraged with the epidemic of gun violence. One of the student leaders of the Tampa die-in is Macie McClintock. She’s the new head of March… Read more »
Democratic Congress members suing Trump over emoluments get their hearing
Federal judge appears to sympathize with Democrat Congressional members suing Trump over emoluments clause. By TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge appeared to sympathize with the nearly 200 congressional Democrats suing President Donald Trump for violating the Constitution by accepting foreign state favors without first presenting them to Congress and gaining their… Read more »
Poor People’s Campaign travels to Tallahassee Monday
Fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr., participated in the original Poor People’s Campaign to fight what he called the evils of militarism, racism and materialism, a new nationwide movement has sprung up. WMNF interviewed Kofi Hunt, an organizer with the Poor People’s Campaign — a National Call for Moral Revival. They’re planning a bus… Read more »
Find out where your kids can get free meals this summer
During the school year, many kids who don’t get enough to eat at home can get free or reduced-price lunches at school. But where do they turn during the summer months? Well, you can find dozens of locations across the Tampa Bay region free meals and snacks are handed out this summer by plugging your… Read more »
Education Secretary DeVos: Not assessing role of guns in school violence in school safety commission
DeVos: School safety panel will not look at role of guns By MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday said the federal commission on school safety set up after a Florida high school shooting won’t be looking at the role of guns in school violence. DeVos was asked during a… Read more »
Parkland students to make bus tour to register young voters
By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press The Road to Change Tour focuses on voter registration for 18 year olds and other young voters. PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A day after graduating, a group of Florida high school shooting survivors announced they’ll spend their summer crisscrossing the country, expanding their grass-roots activism from rallies and schools walkouts to… Read more »
Update: Joe Biden is in Tampa Bay today. When he was here in 2016, the VP stressed Cuba, TPP and natural gas
Update on June 4, 2018 – Former Vice President Joe Biden is speaking Monday night in St. Petersburg. Here’s a WMNF News report from when the VP spoke at University of Tampa on May 11, 2016. Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the University of Tampa Wednesday afternoon about the U.S. and its relationships with countries… Read more »
Many breast cancer patients can skip chemo, big study finds
More than 10,000 women participated in the study, the largest to date on early stage breast cancer. By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Most women with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of beating the disease, doctors are reporting from a landmark… Read more »
Why Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria is so much higher than officials thought
By Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Pennsylvania State University “If you don’t get away from those areas, you are going to die.” That statement concluded Puerto Rico Secretary of Public Safety Héctor Pesquera’s press conference before Hurricane Maria. As of Dec. 29, the Department of Public Safety had certified 64 deaths due to Hurricane Maria. Pesquera was one… Read more »
