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WMNF’s daily digest of news headlines for Monday, March 20th, 2023
Florida House passes a major expansion of school vouchers
Housing, The Planet and Jobs
Controversial local ordinance bill moves forward in Florida House
Florida’s school book rules draw a challenge
Bacteria found in Lido Casino Beach
Radioactivity Wednesday: Professor David Stebenne discusses his new book on the middle class, "PROMISED LAND"
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Dartmouth Professor Describes Long Term Trends in the US that Resulted in Trump Victory
Read MorePoor People's Campaign travels to Tallahassee Monday
Read MoreACORN Founder Wade Rathke Subject of New Film The Organizer Talks About Community Organizing
Read MoreIn the Wake of the GOP Tax Bill Workers Face Layoffs and Smaller Bonuses
Read MoreProgress Florida Says Florida's Outlook Is Not As Bright As GOP Leaders in Tallahassee Claim
Read MoreThe Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
Read MoreUSF Adjunct Faculty Members: Low Pay, No Benefits Say They Need a Union
Read MoreRNC Spokesperson Touts GOP Tax Bill
Read MoreThe Role of Class in American Politics
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Gyrocopter Pilot Who Flew onto US Capitol Lawn Wants Big Money out of Politics
Radioactivity 2 16 17 11AM Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll meet the gyrocopter pilot Doug Hughes who flew onto the US Capital lawn – hoping to draw attention to the need for campaign finance reform. For the flight he spent 120 days in prison. He’s out now and… Read more »
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A Stetson Law Professor Discusses President Trump’s Nominee for the Supreme Court and Women’s March Activists Planning Their Next Steps
WMNF’s Radioactivity Feb 1 2017 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up we’ll get the perspective of a Constitutional law scholar from Stetson on President Trump’s nominee to fill the nearly year-long vacancy on the US Supreme Court. And with all the energy generated by the Women’s marches around the country two… Read more »
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Women’s Show “The Essential Guide to Donald Trump” book review 11/3
5 Days and Counting… We’re down to the wire…less than a week before we choose our next Commander in Chief? That’s up to you to decide. If you still haven’t made up your mind on who you’re voting for then pick up a copy of The Essential Guide to Donald Trump by Kenneth F. McCallion. In… Read more »
Radioactivity Wednesday: An exclusive interview with Vice President Joe Biden
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_161005_110618_radioactivityW1_189.MP3 By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Wednesday we aired an exclusive interview by Host Rob Lorei with United States Vice President Joe Biden. They talked about Donald Trump’s tax returns, the Senate’s refusal to take up the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, Mike Pence, the working class people who show up at Trump rallies and… Read more »
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Women’s Show – 20th Anniversary of Welfare Reform and “The Cruelest Prosecutor in America”
20th Anniversary of Welfare Reform This week marks the 20th anniversary of former President Bill Clinton’s welfare reform…when open-ended assistance to the needy changed to a time-limited performance based assistance. Bill Clinton said “It ended welfare as we know it.” While it has reduced the welfare rolls of the needy, the welfare to the greedy… Read more »
New book looks at 400 years of class division in America
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160706_110618_radioactivityW1_189.MP3 By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Thursday, we looked at the history of class in the United States. It’s often said that the US is a classless society, a breakaway from the strict class structure of England. But our guest, Louisiana State University history professor Nancy Isenberg, writes in her new book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of… Read more »
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“Undue Burden” and Trump/Ryan Meeting on Women’s Show
“Undue Burden” – It is an awkward phrase, isn’t it? On Monday the Supreme Court kicked the “undue burden” back to the courts. The balance in this case is the “under burden” on one’s religious convictions about the morality of contraception and the mandate of the Affordable Care Act that contraception needs to be provided… Read more »
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Communist Party USA leader John Bachtell on Radioactivity Friday
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160513_110618_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 BY Rob Lorei On Friday’s Radioactivity, our guest was John Bachtell, national chair of the Communist Party USA. Previously he was Illinois organizer for the party, and is active in labor, peace and justice struggles. He gave his thoughts on accusations of communism thrown at Bernie Sanders, the difference between communism and socialism, and… Read more »
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President Obama Makes Supreme Court Nomination
President Obama announced his Supreme Court nominee, political moderate Merrick Garland. Merrick’s nomination came as a surprise to some, who assumed that Sri Srinivasan, also a judge for the D.C. federal court, would be the top pick. Garland was confirmed to the federal bench under former President Bill Clinton’s second presidential term in 1997. He… Read more »
