When President Obama and Vice President Biden visited the
University of Tampa on Jan. 28 to announce federal funding for high-speed rail connecting Tampa and Orlando, audience members were largely a supportive crowd.
83 Degrees spent the day -- before, during and after the Town Hall meeting -- listening to what people had to say and recorded interviews with several participants and observers.
Here is an audio report by In The News Editor Kate Bradshaw, a newscaster at
WMNF, Tampa Bay's community radio station, and an
online quiz that you can take to tell us what you think too.
We'll publish the results of the quiz in a future edition of 83 Degrees and post them on the
83 Degrees Facebook fan page.
Diane Egner is publisher and managing editor of 83 Degrees. Comments? Contact 83 Degrees.
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Diane Egner is a community leader and award-winning journalist with more than four decades of experience reporting and writing about the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. She serves on the boards of the University of South Florida Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications Advisory Council, The Institute for Research in Art (Graphicstudio, the Contemporary Art Museum, and USF’s Public Art Program) Community Advisory Council, Sing Out and Read, and StageWorks Theatre Advisory Council. She also is a member of Leadership Florida and the Athena Society. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BA in journalism, she won the top statewide award for editorial writing from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors while at The Tampa Tribune and received special recognition by the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists for creative work as Content Director at WUSF Public Media. Past accomplishments and community service include leadership positions with Tampa Tiger Bay Club, USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP), Alpha House of Tampa Bay, Awesome Tampa Bay, Florida Kinship Center, AIA Tampa Bay, Powerstories, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Diane and her husband, Sandy Rief, live in Tampa.