The Ybor City Stogie

Sunday, August 20, 2023

GW2 Tour in Ybor City

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 AT 7 PM

Crowbar - TIX

JENerational Change: Jesse Ventura Running Libertarian 2024? Oliver Anthony Goes Viral & BlackRock Owns Maui

Hosted by Jen Perelman and Peter Hager

Jesse Ventura has come out saying he is considering a 2024 presidential run on the Libertarian ticket. We'll discuss this & much more with Osiris of Stuck In The Middle Podcast.

We'll also be discussing Oliver Anthony's song 'Rich Men North of Richmond' blows up, causing media and others to react, as well as Seth Dillon of Babylon Bee.

Saturday, August 19, 2023

HOW BLACK AMERICANS ABANDONED MONIQUE WORRELL

The Ricardo Ponce Trio in Tampa

TOMORROW AT 11 AM

Hooch and Hive

Dictator Ron DeSantis Removes ANOTHER FL State Attorney

Swamp Poney in Seminole Heights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023 AT 9 PM

Elas

A Peek At Big Pharma’s Playbook That Leaves Many Americans Unable To Afford Their Drugs

America’s pharmaceutical giants are suing this summer to block the federal government’s first effort at drug price regulation.....MORE

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Brown Stew Chicken

Rice, Beams and cabbage

Hines Caribbean Cuisine

3313 N. Nebraska Ave, Ybor Heights

Tampa's Best Jamaican Food!

Marco Rubio 2.0? Chris Christie mocks ‘canned line’ in Ron DeSantis’ debate memo

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie continues to target Ron DeSantis.

In comments Saturday in Atlanta, the former New Jersey Governor made light of a strategy memo released by the DeSantis political operation that telegraphed an attack on him at a debate next week.

“I don’t know. A canned line used by a Florida politician, on a debate stage, against me? What could go wrong?”

More HERE

DESANTIS EDUCATION: How New College of Florida has failed

“This fall will mark the first new academic year since DeSantis began his overhaul of the liberal arts college, the smallest public institution in Florida, by appointing six new conservative trustees. Many students were nervous about returning to NCF under the new leadership, which in short order fired former president Patricia Okker, axed the diversity, equity, and inclusion office, and denied five faculty members tenure. But as the fall semester inches closer, it is becoming increasingly apparent just how much dysfunction New College’s students will have to contend with this year.”....MORE

"10 Million Names" Project

10 Million Names is a collaborative project dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America (specifically, the territory that would become the United States) between the 1500s and 1865.

The project seeks to amplify the voices of people who have been telling their family stories for centuries, connect researchers and data partners with people seeking answers to family history questions, and expand access to data, resources, and information about enslaved African Americans.

More HERE

Florida town, students resist letting state’s war on Black history be forgotten

The small town of Ocoee, Florida is the site of an infamous race massacre, the result of white people's outrage over a pair of Black men attempting to vote. The town, and students who want to know the state's history, as well as their own, are pushing back against new state education standards from the DeSantis administration, that would distort and dilute the teaching of this important event.

Ybor Life

7th Ave

JENerational Change: FL Reproductive Rights Panel: Reps. Anna Eskamani & Ashley Gantt

Hosted by Jen Perelman and Peter Hager

Governor DeSantis's 6 week abortion bill was effectively a ban on women's bodily autonomy. Today, we're fighting to get reproductive rights on the FL ballot for '24.

Reps. Anna Eskamani & Ashley Gantt join us to discuss how we ensure we get enough petition signatures to make that happen.

We'll also discuss Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's statement about Israel on the house floor & Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe's PEAK Neoliberalism.

Prosecutor WARNS Trump about "pre-trial jail cell"

The Legal Breakdown episode 105: @GlennKirschner2 discusses Trump's attacks against judges and prosecutors and its impact on his pre-trial release.

DeSantis' plan is working: LGBTQ+ Floridians feel less safe and are considering relocating

LGBTQ+ Floridians feel less safe and are considering relocating due to new laws restricting gender dysphoria treatments and putting restrictions on education, pronouns, and bathrooms.

Hillsborough County Commissioners Seek Applications For Citizen Boards, Councils

Hillsborough County Commissioners are seeking residents to serve on several County citizen advisory boards and councils. Residents interested in seeking an appointment must reside in and be registered voters in Hillsborough County.....More info HERE

Cruising banned in Ybor City

Hillsborough County Ordinances

Sec. 14-140. - Cruising prohibited.

No person shall engage in unnecessary repetitive driving, also known as "Cruising" as defined herein, while operating a motor vehicle, and no owner of a motor vehicle shall permit another to engage in cruising while operating a motor vehicle under his or her care, custody and control, after notice as described in section 14-141 hereinbelow.

Of the myriad of things that lend to the character of Ybor City, the vehicles that cruise 7th Avenue most evenings are one of the more picturesque. Of the many hours I've spent enjoying life on 7th Avennue, I've not once heard either a patron or a business owner complain of the cruisers. It simply isn't an issue but now the City of Tampa has decided it is.

It's clearly obvious that the "cruisers" spend a great deal of time and effort building and restoring the vehicles they drive down the heart of Ybor City. I believe those who spend evenings on 7th Avenue enjoy seeing the love these cruisers have put into their creations. Cruising has been an age old tradition in Ybor City and now some city bureaucrats have decided to outlaw cruising for at least the next 90 days in order to ease the traffic congestion on Ybor City's main drag. "NO MOTOR VEHICLE CRUISING" signs have been installed at both ends of 7th Avenue. This cruising ban has been tried before without apparent success.

According to the county ordinance (Sec. 14-141), if a vehicle is seen to pass the same "traffic control point" 3 or more times, they can be stopped by local law enforcement and given notice that any subsequent operation of the vehicle past any traffic control point will constitute a violation of the law. I can only imagine the mayhem that will result from city police stopping every cruiser next Friday night to give them a warning.