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Like every year for the past twenty years, the courageous Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan will start their annual trip to Cuba. The genocidal Yankee imperialist embargo against Cuba prevents Americans from sending any article to the Caribbean island.........here
"It is not pride, it's shame," said Congemi, who pledged to follow in Mayor Rick Baker's footsteps
You may not have even known it was happening, but “Rapprochement With Cuba: Good For Tampa Bay, Good For Florida, Good For America,” a conference sponsored by the Alliance for Responsible Cuba Policy Foundation and held Saturday at the Italian Club in Ybor City, was, by its very existence, a milestone in repairing the tattered relationship between Tampa and Cuba........here
City Council member Wengay Newton said political newcomer Scott Wagman is the best mayoral candidate to oversee City Hall...........here
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With A Few Choice Words For Creative Loafing
This marker, which was dedicated on Feb. 21, 2004, is situated on Fort King Road between Dade City and Zephyrhills.........more
Tommy Ervin, the manager of a Florida water park (Weeki Wachee) has been fired after some of the mermaid performers complained they were sexually harassed........here
Call it Phyllis Math: a gathering of Phyllis Busansky’s “five closest friends” numbered nearly 1,000 at her funeral at Temple Schaarai Zedek in Tampa on this dark, rainy Friday morning.........here
Like many in the Bay area, Janet Santiago is finding it hard getting through these tough economic times. Throw in the fact she that is raising four of her grandchildren, and money is very tight..........here
Charlie Miranda has come up with a plan to turn hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater into drinking water. All in the name of self-sufficiency. Yes, we are in the middle of a drought. But we aren’t desperate........more
The supervisor's job came open Tuesday when Phyllis Busansky, a Democrat, was found dead of natural causes in a St. Augustine hotel room. Busansky was a popular and charismatic politician who had been in office just five months. Political tradition says Crist, a Republican, will choose Busanky's successor from the ranks of the GOP...........here
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Tampa Teens Beat Up Aging Wrestler
Conservative powerbroker Ralph Hughes, who spent millions of dollars promoting his anti-tax, small government causes and his favored political candidates, died owing the federal government tens of millions of dollars in taxes, according to the IRS.......here
Fried Shrimp
The eight-foot alligator opens its jaws wide and hisses in the dark at Julie Harter, who takes a few steps closer and dangles a lasso just like the kind that rodeo cowboys use..........more
Other board members sat silently as Commissioner Rose Ferlita got up to ask a clerk to replay Beckner's opening comments over headphones...........here
Tampa's mayor has decided not to honor a controversial Muslim civil rights group this year. Mayor Pam Iorio said Thursday she made the decision after hearing from people who complained that the Council on American-Islamic Relations has ties to terrorist groups.......more
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The Dairy Godmother
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Commissioners,
Residents of this contentious beach community in attendance at Sunday’s Tampa Bay Rays game against the Washington Nationals were surprised to see a former commissioner standing with a group of beach mayors on the field.........more