Julie Castle, the CEO of Best Friends Animal Society, the influential national animal welfare organization, and based in Kanab, Utah, explained in an interview on “Talking Animals” the rationale behind its “No Kill 2025,” a campaign by which Best Friends aims, in 2025, for every animal shelter across the country to embrace a “no kill”… Read more »
There was something different in the air in Brewster,Massachusetts when the owners of a local restaurant unexpectedly decided to shut their doors and treat their staff to a “Day of Kindness”. The owners, Brandi and Regina Felt Castellano, made this decision after members of their staff continuously received verbal abuse from rude customers. The owners… Read more »
On Surly Voices’ first weekly show, Control is the theme of the day. Surlies Donna and Liz highlight Britney Spears’ fight for freedom from her conservatorship. Other topics include Ron DeSantis’ recent “anti-indoctrination” push and various media outlets’ influence over their audiences.
In the 2021 legislative session dozens of bills were introduced that would have done everything from shortening the sentences of inmates with good behavior to creating a registry of police misconduct. But barely anything passed. And state lawmakers were shocked when Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill passed with bipartisan support that would have expunged… Read more »
There are new projections that predict rapid increases in high-tide flooding for St. Petersburg, Florida, over the coming decade.
Wednesday morning in Ybor City, Tampa-area Democratic Congress member Kathy Castor called for the U.S. to encourage peaceful regime change in Cuba. She spoke in support of Cuban protesters from José Martí Park, which is actually property of the Cuban Government. In her opening remarks, Congress member Castor did not mention one of the main… Read more »
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman suggests that the cost so far of the cleanup of tons of dead fish from an ongoing red tide outbreak is “six figures.” He’s asking the state for help. Kriseman estimated that between the city and Pinellas County, officials have cleaned up 500 tons of dead sea life. “I’ve just… Read more »
Former Pinellas County Commissioner Ken Welch wants to ensure the Black community is honored as plans for redevelopment at the 86-acre Tropicana Field site progress. Residents in the neighborhood razed to make way for the baseball stadium were displaced in the late 70s an early 80s to build what was originally the Suncoast Dome. The… Read more »
On this Monday’s Sustainable Living show (7/12/21) we had guest Dr. Bob Linde of Acupuncture and Herbal Therapies in St. Petersburg in-studio to talk about sustainable herbalism and native edibles and medicinals. Dr. Bob has an MS in Oriental Medicine and a BS in education. He is a licensed acupuncture physician, Registered Herbalist and the… Read more »
A school advocacy group is calling for more action after it found a teacher at a Tampa elementary school hit a student with a desk and the principal tried to cover it up. The group Teaching for the Culture is calling for more oversight and accountability in the District’s Office of Professional Standards. LISTEN: Bianca… Read more »
By Robert Neff / WMNF News On Sunday, a crowd of over 100 people packed an intersection in downtown Sarasota. The protestors were demanding an end to the administration of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. The demonstrators, standing in solidarity with protests in Miami, Tampa and Havana, waved Cuban flags and chanted “liberdad”. According to one… Read more »
Frequent contributor to Life Elsewhere, Dr. Binoy Kampmark shares his well-considered assessments of the following news items: Haiti’s President Assassinated A group of gunmen allegedly posing as agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency forcibly entered President Jovenel Moïse’s private residence and assassinated him in the early hours of Wednesday. The macabre act will prolong the uncertainty as… Read more »
Two Republican congressional candidates embroiled in an alleged murder-for-hire plot had their case postponed until September. Anna Paulina Luna’s temporary restraining order against William Braddock will remain until the case’s new date. LISTEN: The race to fill the soon-to-be-vacant District 13 seat is still more than a year away. But it’s already getting deathly intense…. Read more »
Joshua Zeman—the director of “The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52,” a feature-length documentary chronicling the science-oriented pursuit of a whale that experts think has spent his whole life in solitude because, they believe, he’s communicating at a frequency no other whale can understand—explained on “Talking Animals” Wednesday that he found the whale’s story so… Read more »
Each year June 1st marks the beginning of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. The Atlantic Hurricane Season usually last until November 30th, with September being the most common month for hurricanes. According to the The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center, an above average Atlantic Hurricane Season is being predicted for 2021 with… Read more »
An art show celebrating femininity is coming to St. Petersburg this weekend. More than 50 visual and performance artists plan to use their work to explore the beauty and ambiguity of the female form. Listen: It’s all right there in the name. “We are Feminine.” Three simple words that can carry a lot of power…. Read more »
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last month signed into law a bill that would require state universities to conduct an annual assessment of “viewpoint diversity” by surveying students and faculty. Ray Arusenault, emeritus professor of American history and civil rights at USF St. Pete and chair of the Pinellas Chapter of the ACLU, calls that bill… Read more »
The Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County announced Thursday that it will partner with the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg for a COVID-19 vaccination clinic from 10:00 a.m. until noon on Friday, July 9. In a press release, the DOH-Pinellas says: “Don’t miss out on this surreal-ly cool opportunity to protect yourself from COVID-19…. Read more »
Indigenous rights activists gathered in St. Petersburg this weekend to demand action from the Catholic Church following the discovery of more than 1,000 graves filled with native children. The children were killed at schools in Canada meant to assimilate Indigenous peoples. LISTEN: To the sound of a pulsing drum they marched. They didn’t know we… Read more »
Listen in to the Sustainable Living July 5th, 2021 archive to learn about the textile waste stream and what the price of your clothing really is for the environment. We were joined Monday in-studio by Ericka Leigh of The Sewist Society to talk all things textile. Do you know the real price of the clothes… Read more »
