Joe Henderson, who worked as a sports reporter and news columnist for the Tampa Tribune for more than 40 years, dropped by the studio to talk about media, politics and other things. Last week, a documentary on the Tribune called, “Stop The Presses,” debuted at the Tampa Theatre, and will screen again this Saturday. Henderson… Read more »
Last Saturday a Tarpon Springs Police Officer shot and killed a 25-year-old man; according to police, the officer was working an “Off-Duty event” – a car show – and was alerted about a suspicious person. When the officer stopped the bicyclist he said he was given fake names and then shot Nick Provenza after he… Read more »
There have been protests in Florida and elsewhere against Congress members who voted for the American Health Care Act on Thursday. Debbie King is a community organizer with Organize Florida. She’s helping to lead what’s called: “Emergency Protest No Trumpcare” Friday afternoon in Lakeland. Facebook live video: From AP: ‘The Republicans’ health care victory… Read more »
Give Day Tampa Bay encourages the public to donate to local nonprofits Tuesday was the annual Give Day Tampa Bay — a day when people living here in Tampa Bay are asked to donate to local charities and nonprofits. WMNF was participating, and hoped to hear from our listeners, especially listeners who have never contributed, but… Read more »
With a little more than a week to go before the Florida Legislature calls for an end of the session, negotiations are still taking place on the final language in the Florida House regarding a medical marijuana bill. Amendment Two was overwhelmingly approved by Floridians at the ballot box last November, yet advocates for the… Read more »
Renewed effort by activists to win support for Medicare for All Changes in the Affordable Care Act are stalled in Washington as Republicans cannot agree how to go forward. That’s despite President Trump’s promise that he would repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something that would cover everyone, while also reducing premiums… Read more »
Failure of Republican Health Care Plan Draws New Interest to Single Payer / Medicare for All Almost everyone agrees our health care system needs improvement, and there are growing calls for a single payer health care system in the U.S. Rob Lorei talks with some Florida single payer activists. President Trump and his fellow Republicans… Read more »
Joe Redner has been called a Tampa legend, and as he turns 77 this summer, he certainly doesn’t appear to be ready to slow down anytime soon. The adult club entrepreneur and activist received a little less than 10 percent of the vote in his last bid for public office last fall, falling to Republican… Read more »
Thursday morning in Tarpon Springs about 20 people held signs opposing Trumpcare; Paul Robinson is an emergency doctor and a pediatrician living in Tarpon Springs. “In Florida today, 2.6-million children are covered under Medicaid and our version of CHIP, which is called Florida Kid Care. The marketplace, under Obamacare, added another 122,000 covered children. So between… Read more »
Is this all becoming surreal to you? We’re trying to focus on all the things that are happening, but… Is a cyber-attack an act of war? – particularly when we are talking about the election of a president of the U.S.? Was the Trump campaign in collusion? How can we be going about business as usual… Read more »
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the “Trumpcare” Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act Thursday — are the Tampa Bay area Republican members of Congress on board? It’s pretty difficult to say, since many of them did not respond when WMNF News reached out to them. Congress members Dennis Ross… Read more »
How will Floridians fare under the American Health Care Act (AHCA)? Jeff Johnson, the state director for AARP Florida, says: not well. Johnson also says Floridians on Medicaid – especially those in nursing homes – might be harmed by the AHCA. Listen to the story here: “Well, there are a couple of things, particularly from… Read more »
Trumpcare is Rigged! Not to worry – health care is and always has been available for all – if you can afford it. If you can’t, don’t get sick. It’s hard to imagine after 8 years of attacks, including 60 attempts by Republicans in Congress to overthrow the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it has come… Read more »
With the unveiling and subsequent committee votes this week on what is being called The American Health Care Act, we spoke with reporter Mary Agnes Carey with Kaiser Health News to give us the 411. Also on the program, Tampa civic activist Joe Citro.
After years of criticizing the Affordable Care Act and unsuccessfully trying to repeal it, Congressional Republicans have unveiled a replacement; but Democratic Congress member Kathy Castor of Tampa says the proposed ACA replacement will cost more and cover fewer people. “When you eliminate coverage for millions of my neighbors in Florida and make it more… Read more »
The week for Congress members to spend in their districts is wrapping up and many of them held town hall meetings to hear from constituents; but a number including Sen. Marco Rubio, also skipped any town halls. For example, on Sunday afternoon nearly fifty people stood outside the Resort at Longboat Key Club on Longboat Key… Read more »
WMNF’s Radioactivity 2 21 17 Tuesday Good morning, welcome to radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today—President Trump wants to increase the military budget…. But what if you are religious and object to military spending and your money used for wars, and drones and instruments of killing? We’ll talk about that on the first part… Read more »
President Donald Trump will be in Florida this weekend for the third weekend in a row, and for the third weekend in a row, there will be protests against Trump. On Saturday the president is holding what he’s calling a “campaign rally” at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport on the east coast. A post on the… Read more »
The good, the bad, the ugly… The tweets are coming like Nano-bullets and we are realizing the constitution and our government are the targets. But no matter how much things are changing, some things remain the same. One of the first acts was to kick the political football of the global gag rule off the… Read more »
Republican leaders in the U.S. House and Senate and in the White House are promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with … something? It’s that uncertainty that has current consumers of health insurance through the ACA marketplaces concerned. Michael Schwarz owns his own business as a commercial photographer and his wife… Read more »
