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Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Or follow this link and select 02/19/20 from the drop down menu: https://www.wmnf.org/events/radioactivity/ Intro: Our guest today will be speaking afternoon at the St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs...
What has the Florida Legislature done in the last 2 days?
(Originally published 4/26/2019) A lot. Florida’s legislature has 60 days (though special sessions can be, and are often, called) to make lots of laws. In odd numbered years, like 2019, the session begins the first...
Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Or follow this link and select 11/20/19 from the drop down menu: https://www.wmnf.org/events/radioactivity/ Intro: Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. President Trump’s ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland is...
Is Gov. DeSantis Running a Pay to Play Political Committee?
Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 09/18/19 from the drop down menu https://www.wmnf.org/events/radioactivity/ Intro: Good morning, welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up—Our new Governor has promised to “drain the swamp” in...
Ag Commissioner Nikki Fried defends Florida cabinet meeting in Israel
Both of Florida’s U.S. Senators are Republicans; the governor and two of the three other members of the state cabinet are Republicans; on MidPoint we heard from the only Democrat elected statewide in Florida: Department...
Cabinet meeting in Israel “could be a violation” of Florida’s Sunshine Laws
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is leading a huge delegation to Israel beginning Saturday that includes a state Cabinet meeting inside the controversial new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. But is that meeting a violation of Florida’s...
Florida Rep. Jamie Grant says there isn’t a wage gap between men and women
Four Tampa Bay area members of the Florida Legislature answered questions Friday afternoon from the Tampa Tiger Bay Club about things like teachers with guns, toll roads through rural Florida and limiting the rights of...
Update on Florida Legislative Session
The 2019 Florida Legislative Session is in full swing; so we got an update on the progress of a range of bills from Susan Smith, the former president of the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida....
Florida governor’s State of the State and Democratic rebuttal
Tuesday is the first day of the 2019 Legislative Session in Florida. WMNF aired live coverage of the State of the State address by Governor Ron DeSantis. Here’s a link to the 2019 State...
Smokable medical marijuana ban might get overturned by Florida legislature
Smoke it? A medical pot idea tough for the Florida Legislature to swallow. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the Legislature to rescind a ban on smokable medical marijuana, but it might...
Young Floridians turned out to vote in the 2018 midterm election
Florida’s 2018 youth vote swells over previous midterm By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — They rallied hundreds of thousands to march for gun reform, landed on the cover of Time magazine and...
Next governor – not Rick Scott – will appoint new Supreme Court justices
Whoever is elected Florida governor next month will select the next three state Supreme Court Justices; Monday the court said current Governor Rick Scott “exceeded his authority” when he began the process to name new...
