From teh SP TImes: With former drug smuggler Hank Asher out of the picture, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced Monday it will sign a contract with a South Florida company that is setting up a multistate information network on terrorism. Daryl McLaughlin, interim director at FDLE, notified Gov. Jeb Bush late Monday that [...]
Archive for September, 2003
This is starting to look like a trend: hearing on parental notification TODAY in Tampa
September 18, 2003
From teh SP Times: The first of a series of public hearings on a proposed constitutional amendment to require parental notification before minors can get an abortion will be this week in Tampa. The hearings by the House Judiciary Committee are intended to give Floridians a chance to address lawmakers on the issue. The first [...]
Jeb does his part to strip women of rights
September 18, 2003
From the SP TImes: A judge on Monday accused Gov. Jeb Bush’s administration and welfare officials of exploiting the case of a disabled rape victim to build a national debate on fetal rights and abortion. Circuit Judge Lawrence Kirkwood said in a judicial order that actions by the Department of Children and Families have been [...]
Nasty Republicans push ban on safe medical procedure
September 18, 2003
From the NY Times: The first federal law that would restrict a woman’s right to abortion moved a step closer to President Bush’s signature today when the Senate, which had refused to send the bill to conference with the House, agreed unanimously to do so. …… The move to ban the late-term procedure has been [...]
David Lee Roth to play Tampa; fans fight for tickets
September 17, 2003
Looks like it could sellout!
JetBlue sucks
September 17, 2003
IF this is true, then JetBlue should be run out of business. (another Atrios link) In September of 2002, JetBlue Airways secretly gave the Transportation Security Administration the full travel records of 5 million JetBlue customers. This sensitive travel data was then turned-over to a private security contractor for analysis, the results of which were [...]
Mainstream editorial blasts Cheney’s TV lies
September 17, 2003
Via Atrios, a look at an editorial that ran today in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Dick Cheney is not a public relations man for the Bush administration, not a spinmeister nor a political operative. He’s the vice president of the United States, and when he speaks in public, which he rarely does, he owes the [...]
Today on MorningWood
September 16, 2003
4am to 6am 88.5fm, Tampa, or live at wmnf.org Today on MorningWood: Playlist Hour 1 Playlist Hour 2 Live Playlist Adam Engel: Ninth Circle of Shell After decades of Killing Hope all over the world, you would think the American people would have watched the last helicopters lifting reporters and refugees out of Saigon and [...]
WMNF Breaks Ground
September 14, 2003
Yeah! On Saturday, after nearly four years of planning and pleading for financial support, WMNF broke ground on a $2.1-million building that’s already more than halfway paid for with listeners’ pledges. Some 300 WMNF fans from across the Tampa Bay area gathered in the heat to celebrate the station’s 24th birthday, and the new 12,100-square-foot [...]
Tasteful remembrances
September 13, 2003
This is so outrageous that I’m surprised it didn’t happen here: OPELOUSAS A 16-ton armored personnel carrier accidentally rolled into a police car here on Thursday, during a simulated terrorist attack that included a captured and handcuffed “terrorist” portrayed by a police officer wearing a Middle Eastern-style headdress. The scenario played out during a ceremony [...]