Podcast appearances and mentions of leonora lapeter anton

Tina and Hillary former New York senator, Pedro Espada, Jr. and the Terri Schiavo Case. Tina's Story Pedro Espada served in the NY Senate beginning in 1993. But when his high rolling lifestyle doesn't match up to a civil servant's pay, an investigation is launched. Hillary's Story Terri Schiavo's suffered a massive heart attack at just 27 years old. BUT the politics of the case led to a nationwide debate that ends up before SCOTUS. Sources Tina's Story Bronx Times After over 30 years, Soundview Health Center is gone (https://www.bxtimes.com/after-over-30-years-soundview-health-center-is-gone/)--by David Cruz Buffalo News For Espada, new problems surface as federal investigation begins (https://buffalonews.com/news/for-espada-new-problems-surface-as-federal-investigation-begins/article_915f10ea-bb84-5934-b28f-8582e88c82c0.html)--by Tom Precious New York Daily News Crooked ex-state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. sentenced to 5 years in prison for embezzlement (https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/pedro-espada-jr-sentenced-5-years-fines-community-service-article-1.1372875)--By John Marzulli New York State Attorney General Attorney General Cuomo Charges Pedro Espada Jr. And 19 Executives With Looting His Bronx Not-for-profit (https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2010/attorney-general-cuomo-charges-pedro-espada-jr-and-19-executives-looting-his) The New York Times Espada and Son Plead Not Guilty to Embezzling From Health Network (https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/nyregion/16espada.html)--by Nicolas Confessore and Colin Moynihan Espada Sentenced to 5 Years for Stealing From Nonprofit (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/nyregion/espada-sentenced-to-5-years-for-stealing-from-nonprofit.html)--by Mosi Secret Seven House Primaries Among Most Visible Races in New York Region (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/06/nyregion/seven-house-primaries-among-most-visible-races-in-new-york-region.html) Times Union Espada is back in NY after stepping over line in Penn (https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Espada-is-back-in-NY-after-stepping-over-line-in-6277294.php).--by Rick Karlin United States Attorney's Office Eastern District of New York Former New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. Sentenced To Five Years' Imprisonment (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/former-new-york-state-senate-majority-leader-pedro-espada-jr-sentenced-five-years) The Wall Street Journal Landlords Stand by Espada (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704362404575480190749373882)--by Eliot Brown Wikipedia Pedro Espada Jr. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Espada_Jr.#cite_note-NYT1988-6) Photos Pedro Espada, Jr. (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Pedro_Espada_2009_cropped.jpg)--by Matt Ryan CC BY-SA 3.0 Espada on Senate Floor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7YVSGf9hhI)--screenshot of NYSenate via YouTube Soundview Healthcare Network (https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2011/08/09/004e435e-af0a-42e4-ad92-6c90a2853c1a/thumbnail/1200x630/ccf0b422f13a6f156b43dc5001e47b49/soundview.jpg)--via CBS News Hillary's Story ABC News Terri Schiavo Timeline (https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Schiavo/story?id=531632&page=1) CNN Terri Schiavo has died (https://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/31/schiavo/) Mayo Clinic Proceedings The Terri Schiavo Saga: The Making of a Tragedy and Lessons Learned (https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)61439-0/fulltext) NBC News Ten Years After Terri Schiavo, Death Debates Still Divide Us: Bioethicist (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bioethicist-tk-n333536)--by Arthur Caplan The New York Times From Private Ordeal to National Fight: The Case of Terri Schiavo (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/us/from-private-ordeal-to-national-fight-the-case-of-terri-schiavo.html)--by Clyde Haberman Politico Jeb ‘Put Me Through Hell' (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/jeb-bush-terri-schiavo-114730/)--by Michael Kruse Tampa Bay Times How Terri Schiavo's final days divided her family, Florida and the world (https://www.tampabay.com/narratives/2019/09/15/how-terri-schiavos-final-days-divided-her-family-florida-and-the-world/)--by Tom Zucco, Jamie Thompson, William R. Levesque, Kelley Benham, Leonora LaPeter Anton, Thomas French Time Magazine How Terri Schiavo Shaped the Right-to-Die Movement (https://time.com/3763521/terri-schiavo-right-to-die-brittany-maynard/) Wikipedia Terri Schiavo Case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case) Photos Terri Schivao (https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/learning-jeb-bush-terri-schiavo)--from the Schindler family via The New Yorker Terri Schiavo, in a PVS, with her mother (https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/schiavo.jpeg?quality=85&w=1200)--by Matt May via Time Magazine Terri Schiavo Brain Scan: On the Left is CT scan of normal brain; Right: Schiavo's 2002 CT scan showing loss of brain tissue (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Schiavo_catscan.jpg)--via Fair Use Right to Life Supporter (https://www.tampabay.com/resizer//Ko47r9bEh1RKR9RLaMliYIaVTEw=/900x506/smart/filters:format(webP)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tbt.s3.amazonaws.com/public/S72IA2GHL4I6TBKNIBWI6S7HAY.jpg)--by AP via Tampa Bay Times

A letter from Howie to Leonora LaPeter Anton at the St. Pete Times   Dear Leonora,  Carole tells me that your recent questions have been directed at getting more views on exotic pet ownership and about the numbers of cats in the wild. Thank you for taking the time to do that.   There is one comment in one of your emails that I would like to address.  You may well have decided at this point the structure of your story and what you are going to include, so nothing I say may matter.  But I would like to make one distinction clear in case it is not.  The distinction is between mentioning Don's disappearance versus the mentioning the claims of Carole's involvement.  I believe in one email you suggested Carole might not like your mentioning Don's disappearance, and you made reference to her denying involvement.   Mentioning Don's disappearance is not really something with which Carole has a problem.  I'm not sure it would be a “big case” other than for the media circus that surrounded it, and I think that media coverage was generated not by the disappearance but by the false claims of Carole's involvement. I doubt if Don's disappearance would appear on your radar if it were not for these false claims and the hope of the breeders/owners that you will revive them. Those claims were not made by law enforcement, they were made by individuals who had something to gain.  Law enforcement did their investigation and the result is obvious.  But, it is a true fact that he disappeared, it is part of the history of the sanctuary and of Carole's personal history.   In contrast to mentioning the disappearance as part of the history, repeating ten year old lies like those groundless accusations is different.  It makes titillating reading for the masses.  But I believe it serves no journalistic purpose or public benefit.  It only serves the breeders/owners who make any effort they can to try to cause Carole pain, use up our time on their false complaints, and distract from the meaningful issues of extinction and captive animal ownership.   Carole mentioned to you some of the various ways in which the breeder/owners file false complaints with regulatory or accrediting bodies. This week we experienced a new one that I think is one of the best examples of what we are dealing with when it comes to the tactics and ethics of these people.  Carole received a call for “Carole Lewis” from a regulator saying Carole was behind in child support payments for her son.  Carole's only son was a stepson for whom she was never financially responsible who died in a car accident years ago.  The regulator who called concluded she must have the wrong Carole Lewis, not that uncommon a name, and we would have thought so too except for events later in the day.  Carole got to the sanctuary to learn that our manager's drivers license had been suspended for his allegedly failing to make child support payments.  Scott has never been married and has no children.  Think this is a coincidence?  I suspect there is some hotline where people can anonymously report child support violators and the breeders/owners used it, like their false anonymous claims to Workers' Compensation and others.   I did not ask you the content of the “tip” you said put this story on your radar.  But I can tell you one thing for sure.  The sole purpose of the tip, like these other actions, is to use you to cause Carole pain, try to discredit her, and use up our time to distract us from the work of changing the laws to protect the animals.  The justifications these people use for their selfish treatment of the animals generally do not find acceptance with the public, who show increasing concern over the treatment of animals.  So instead of intelligent debate on these issues, their primary tactic basically to “fight dirty” by spreading lies to try to discredit Carole since she is prominent in this effort and being effective in the trend toward tougher laws.   Whether you print the lies about involvement in Don's disappearance, or the other lies they spread about the sanctuary, is up to you. I believe you when you say you want to write something that is balanced and fair.  I don't sense you are going about this with malice like Chris Hawes clearly did.  When it comes to the issues of how animals are treated, there is a way to present sides of the argument with balance.  But I do not see how there is a balanced and fair way to repeat outright lies.  Simply printing them, no matter how they are framed, creates the innuendo and the shadow of doubt that the attackers desire.   There is certainly a human interest story in Carole's evolution of views and activities.  More significantly there are two really important issues - extinction of the animals in the wild, and their treatment in captivity - that are genuinely important to the world as a whole and an increasingly number of individuals.  Exploring these serves a true journalistic purpose and truly serves the public interest, which I would think is inherent in the mission of the Times.  Again, this is obviously your decision, but I don't see how reprinting ten year old lies serves these higher goals.   You will do as you see fit.  If you do choose to rehash the false claims that were made about Don's disappearance or the other claims the breeders/owners make, I can pretty well predict what will follow:   1. Yates and cohorts will gleefully be sending emails to each others patting themselves on the back for making you their latest agent in their disinformation campaign by getting you to revive the ten year old lies about the disappearance and any others they manage to get you to print.  And they will be laughing at you as well as at us for their success in this. 2. When I tried to meet with Mr. Yates to understand his views on exhibiting animals, on top of the papers he brought with him was the old People Magazine.  Now, he will have a copy of your article on top, trying to use the good name and reputation of the Times as support for his lies. 3. He and/or cohorts will start a new round of complaints to the accrediting bodies that we are approved by, sending your article as evidence of their claims.  This will further drain my time by having to respond to them.  As in the past, we will prevail, but they will have succeeded in making a nuisance of themselves to us and to the staff of these organizations.   Last, if you print the old lies, you of course cause some pain here just because it is painful to see this in print.  In some ways perhaps more for me than Carole, because it is probably harder when someone you love is unjustly attacked than when you are yourself.  And Carole, who has already been through so much over Don's disappearance and does not deserve more, will of course survive the hurt of having the old lies printed.  What will carry her, as in the past, is her strong will, her obvious knowledge of the truth, her passion for her mission and understanding that her role unfortunately includes being the subject of these attacks, and finally her strong faith and her belief that ultimately things happen the way they are supposed to.  And, despite the distractions, we will continue our work toward protecting the animals. The breeders/owners can cause pain and distraction with these attacks, but the cultural evolution in the way treatment of exotic animals is being viewed by the public across the nation and world will continue.  If you read this far, thank you, even if it makes no difference.   I'll part with two quotes I find interesting but not sure if you will.  One is the Ghandi quote I mentioned to you in our conversation and promised to send:  “You can judge the moral progress of a nation by its treatment of animals.”   The other comes from a book I just started called “A Game Ranger Remembers” by a man who spent his life as a ranger at the Kruger National Park in South Africa. He talks about the difference in the way animals were viewed when the park was founded many years before to the time he became Chief Ranger in 1983. His remarks reflect a transition that continues at an accelerated pace today. He says:   “When the Park was proclaimed by President Paul Kruger, attitudes toward animals were based on a very literal interpretation of the biblical injunction that God had given Man dominion over the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea.  By the  time the pioneers (i.e. founders of the Park) bowed out the world was coming to realize that such dominion meant not the conferral of a license to plunder but the assumption of a great and noble responsibility.”  Sincerely,  Howard Baskin   I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.

This is a rebroadcast of the talk that Matt Tullis had with Mike Wilson in May 2015. Wilson was just named a deputy editor for enterprise in Sports at the New York Times. When we did this interview, Wilson had just been named editor of the Dallas Morning News. Wilson has a long track record of supporting journalists who write narratives. When he was at the Tampa Bay Times, he worked with a number of reporters who have been on this show: Ben Montgomery, Lane DeGregory, Michael Kruse, Kelley Benham French, Leonora LaPeter Anton, John Woodrow Cox, and more. They’re all excellent storytellers. That, in Wilson’s mind, is important, especially in news organizations. “Stories are how we understand the world, or how we share our experiences,” he said in the show. “They're how we communicate with loved ones. So it's very elemental stuff for human beings. So it's only natural that telling stories as journalists would also be really important.” When Wilson was a top editor at the Tampa Bay Times, the newspaper started publishing Encounters. The front page series consisted of short, interesting stories that one would not define traditionally as news. “It was supposed to be a really enjoyable five to six minute read for readers,” he said. “The Michael Kruse story about the guy teaching his daughter to ride a bike, there was absolutely nothing special about that story and then everything was special about it. It described this moment that probably just about every parent has been through of setting up your child on two wheels for the first time and letting go and watching them take those first few kind of halting pedaling steps forward and it was just this absolutely beautiful capturing of a universal moment."

Omar Moore talks to Leonora LaPeter Anton, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, about her story “Death At Freedom Square”, which focuses on a mass coronavirus outbreak at a Seminole, Florida nursing home, the lives needlessly lost and the institutional indifference to those lives and to the well-being of those working there. To those who have not lost someone to COVID-19 or who haven't suffered from coronavirus: this episode and Ms. Anton's investigative story, is a must-listen and read respectively. December 9, 2020. Leonora LaPeter Anton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WriterLeonora “Death At Freedom Square”, by Leonora LaPeter Anton, Kavitha Surana, Kathryn Varn: https://bit.ly/3oz7Dx5 IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://votewarnock.com VOTE EARLY! Voting by mail is going on now in Georgia. Early in-person voting starts: December 14. Plus— FULL VIDEO (Nov. 30) THE POLITICRAT podcast episode—a conversation with Professor of Law Dorit Reiss (University of California at Hastings College of Law) about vaccines, coronavirus and ethics. https://bit.ly/3fUL4Qb NOTE: You can now listen to THE POLITICRAT daily podcast free on Audible: https://adbl.co/35MvRNL Latest post at Medium: VICTORY. https://bit.ly/2UkcWU5 MOORE THOUGHTS —The Day After Tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3l5CZdl Omar's film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju). MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel

On this episode, we discuss the reporting behind Blood and Truth, Leonora LaPeter Anton’s six-part serial narrative and nine-part podcast. Find the series at tampabay.com/bloodandtruth. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen to Pulitzer Prize winner Leonora LaPeter Anton talk about what didn’t make it into this series, what’s happening with the Tommy Zeigler case and thoughts about his guilt or innocence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tommy Zeigler has been on death row for 42 years and for more than half that time, he’s been trying to convince the state of Florida to allow for DNA tests that might help exonerate him. But the state continually refuses. About 20 other men are in a similar situation, imprisoned in Florida since the 1970s or ’80s and arguing that it’s inherently unfair to deny them access to 21st century science. Tampa Bay Times reporter Leonora LaPeter Anton and photographer Cherie Diez have followed the Zeigler case for years. In 2018, they traveled around Florida and into Georgia to interview dozens of people, some involved in the police work or prosecution, others who believe in Zeigler’s innocence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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To read the stories mentioned in this podcast, go to: http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2015/investigations/florida-mental-health-hospitals/ http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/the-divorce-from-hell-the-battle-for-alimony-and-emptied-pockets/2112875 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Leonora LaPeter Anton is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on the Tampa Bay Times’ enterprise team. In January, the Times published her story, “Gang raped at 17. Therapy at 65.” The story follows the attempt of Evelyn Robinson to cope with a horrific rape, 48 years after it happened. LaPeter Anton has been at the Tampa Bay Times since 2000. Her stories veer toward the unusual – a surrogate mother who can’t get pregnant; a broke couple who rent rooms in their mansion. She won a Pulitzer for her work in an investigation into the failing mental hospitals in the state of Florida. She also contributes to the newspaper’s occasional series, Encounters, which are short narratives about people living ordinary lives in south Florida. Her most recent Encounter focused on a woman applying for a job at Subway. LaPeter Anton grew up in Connecticut and Greece, and studied journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

What happens when a state cuts $100 million from its mental health budget? Reporters from the Tampa Bay Times and Sarasota Herald-Tribune spent 18 months finding out. Their Pulitzer-winning investigation exposed deadly violence in Florida's mental hospitals, where staff shortages, regulatory fumbling and years of neglect were, for years, hidden from the public eye. In today's episode, we hear from Anthony Cormier and Leonora LaPeter Anton, two of the reporters who helped spur reform in the broken mental health system. EPISODE NOTES: bit.ly/2bLZz74