Showing posts with label Tampa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tampa. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Stogie Athlete Of The Week: Jordan Zade, Tampa Bay Sun FC #37


Jordan is a graduating player out of the University of Nebraska. In her four years with the Cornhuskers, Jordan made 74 appearances and had 21 goal contributions as a defender. At just 21-years-old, Jordan is a top collegiate player. Jordan signed her first professional contract with Tampa Bay Sun FC in the USL Super League.

Nationality: American
Club: Tampa Bay Sun FC
Position: (RB) Right Fullback, (LB) Left Fullback

Friday, January 31, 2025

Unique ‘clinic-in-a-box’ provides healthcare for unhoused in Tampa


New technology unveiled Wednesday addresses healthcare for the unhoused.  A  unique “clinic in a box” provides virtual healthcare to the homeless in Tampa.  The OnMed Care Station is a small booth, slightly larger than an SUV.....MORE

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Tampa Bay’s Refugee and Migrant Women Initiative deepens the meaning of community

The Refugee and Migrant Women Initiative was founded to deepen a sense of community (Photo c/o Florence Ackey)

Florence Ackey sees immigration in a very simple way: The eggplant theory. “A vegetable I rarely used, but after meeting women from Syria, Somalia and even Ukraine, I now have seven different ways to eat an eggplant,” Ackey told CL. “Same eggplant, but I opened my mind instead of thinking that they would just eat all my eggplant.”

“When you don’t understand them and you allow those misconceptions to dictate policy, it becomes a dangerous thing. I always say, we are afraid of what we don’t know,” Ackey said. “I see all these immigration policies, all saying ‘just send them back’.”


Monday, May 6, 2024

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Rebuilding Tampa's Foundation


One hundred and seventy-five years after Tampa's incorporation, the city is undergoing the biggest infrastructure overhaul in its history. From massive stormwater improvement projects, hundreds of miles of new or repaired water and wastewater pipes, another hundred miles of repaved roads, improved safety conditions at high-accident locations, million-dollar facility upgrades, and much, much more.....Read More