One of the least expected bills to emerge from the legislature this year is the reversal of the industry friendly telephone rate increases that the Leg. passed last year. Howard Troxler fills us in: Here is what is happening right now in Tallahassee. Your state legislator is coming under enormous pressure from telephone lobbyists to [...]
Archive for March, 2004
Call your Legislator (after you call WFLA – c’mon… you’ve already got the phone in your hand…)
March 25, 2004
WFLA TV censors Sierra Club ad
March 25, 2004
W’s policies are indefensible, so his people have decided that the only way to respond to criticism is to silence the critics before too many people notice the truth that they are spreading.
Hillsborough County Living Wage campaign
March 23, 2004
`Living Wage’ Public Meetings Start This Week H illsborough County has scheduled four public meetings to discuss the possible implementation of a “living wage” for county workers and those employed by county contractors. Two local groups have called on the county to increase what is paid to some employees earning less than federal poverty standards. [...]
Jeb! is thinking about November
March 23, 2004
Is Jeb! trying to engineer an excuse not to do the voter mandated Pre-K thing this year? We know how he just hates voter initiatives that force him to spend money on people’s needs. Of course, he could just be engaging in a little disingenuous election-year grandstanding: Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday that a House [...]
State Democrats want money to help people, not corporations
March 23, 2004
SP TImes: Democratic legislators Monday called on their Republican counterparts to postpone a series of planned tax cuts to spare the state deep cuts in social service programs. Florida shouldn’t lower taxes for corporations and investors when the state is considering eliminating prenatal care for an estimated 7,000 poor pregnant women, Democratic leaders said. “We [...]
Get Up with MorningWood
March 23, 2004
Get Up with MorningWood, on Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 4 to 6 am every Tuesday! Studio line: 813-239-9663. Call or email the studio anytime! Today on MorningWood I’m gonna get back to the music today. I’ve had lots of themed shows lately, which tend to restrict what can be [...]
250,000 families left behind
March 22, 2004
Not too surprising – W’s gotta pay for those tax cuts for the rich somehow, right? Janice and Earl Johnson live on combined monthly disability payments of about $1,100, and their monthly rent runs $800. Utilities total as much as $260 a month. Then there’s food and a telephone. To make ends meet, the Johnsons [...]
Kerry shadowed by FBI
March 22, 2004
LA Times: As a high-profile activist who crossed the country criticizing the Nixon administration’s role in the Vietnam War, John F. Kerry was closely monitored by FBI agents for more than a year, according to intelligence documents reviewed by The Times. In 1971, in the months after the Navy veteran and decorated war hero argued [...]
Don’t trust Buddy on this one
March 22, 2004
I know it’s his job to reassure voters that all is well with the new technology, but Buddy Johnson could at least feign some concern for making sure your vote counts this November: “There’s never been a perfect election,” Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson said. “And there never will be.” Buddy seems to [...]
Guantanamo Chaplain charges quietly dropped
March 21, 2004
Yahoo! News The Army’s allegations last year were grave: A military chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was linked to a possible espionage ring and eventually charged with mishandling classified information. Six months later, all charges against Capt. James Yee have been dropped. “Chaplain Yee has won,” his attorney, Eugene R. Fidell of Washington, said in [...]