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Critic says Buckhorn’s Police review board not independent
On Friday, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn announced a new Citizens Review Board to keep an eye on the city’s police department; on WMNF’s MidPoint, Seán Kinane spoke with Laila Abdelaziz, a critic who is part of...
Women’s POV – New Orleans Recovery / Welfare Reform 20 Yrs Later 8/27
All week we have been hearing about New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, and that New Orleans better than ever. What about the 100,000 African Americans that were displaced, particularly African American women and their children? Why has...
10 years after Katrina: Who is being left out of New Orleans’ Renaissance?
this Saturday marks the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the northern gulf coast, devastating New Orleans as the storm overwhelmed its aged levee system and flooded 80 percent of the city, leaving over 1800...
Low-performing Pinellas schools prompts Castor letter to feds
Tampa-area Congress member Kathy Castor has written to the U.S. Department of Education asking them to look at how the Pinellas County School District is spending federal money that is supposed to go to schools...
Videos: 29 Occupy Tampa members arrested while camping in Riverfront Park
Tampa Police say overnight they arrested 29 members of Occupy Tampa in a riverside park west of downtown. Before the arrests about 40 people attempted to camp on a hill inside the park, but many...
