Civitas is hoping that no one is paying attention, being that this is the busiest time of the year for many folks. If Ed Turanchik has his way, we will all groggily wake up in February with fuzzy recollections of tipsy holiday land swapping all but forgotten. The Tampa Housing Authority is postponing a decision …
December 24, 2003 – 6:56 am
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By Norwood
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Posted in Tampa
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Today on MorningWood, on Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 4 to 6 am every Tuesday! Today’s MorningWood highlights: The Pledge continues, and is now considered “labor friendly”! I, Norwood, do hereby pledge to play absolutely no holiday songs on MorningWood during this holiday season. These days. we are inundated with …
December 23, 2003 – 2:33 am
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By Norwood
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Posted in Music
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Remember Jessica Lynch? Breathless reports of a daring rescue, led by brave American troops, and documented by video clips supplied by the Pentagon? Later, it turned out that much of the story of Jessica’s capture was pure propagandistic fantasy. Well, here we go again: Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops only after he had …
Jeb Bush and the Florida legislature pushed Medical tort reform on Florida this summer. It’s heating up as a national issue, as W attempts to scare and bribe doctors into signing up, all in the name of “fixing” malpractice rates. Wampum has an excellent post up on the dishonest tactics employed by backers of “med …
Jeb Bush has been fighting civil rights groups who are attempting to overturn an archaic racist law that bans felons in Florida who have paid their debt to society from voting. A federal appeals court Friday ordered a trial in a lawsuit that claims Florida’s law barring felons from voting is unconstitutional because it discriminates …