Florida GOP candidate for governor is lighting up social media with a tactic ripped from Donald Trump's playbook: a petition on his Twitter feed to "stop CNN." here
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Adam Putnam: liberals Taking Fake News To New Extremes
Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World
Miami Cop Javier Ortiz
South Florida has the highest HIV rate in America thanks in part to intravenous drug use. But the head of the Miami's police union, Javier Ortiz, has now repeatedly called for the city to kill a program designed to slow the rate of AIDS infections and save the lives of IV drug addicts. here
Tampa School Supply Donation Drive
Saturday, August 5th from 9am to 7pm
Concrete Rose Collective
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The Tampa "Love Has No Borders" Movement School Supply Drive for Resettled and Refugee Children. Drop by the Concrete Rose Collective and leave items on the porch, which will be collected throughout the day on Saturday and prepared for distribution to the many families in Tampa who need them.
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Tampa Mayor And The Tampa Bay Builders Association Want To Cut Down Our Trees
The City of Tampa is taking a comprehensive look at the tree ordinance and making changes. Recommendations from the Mayor's Competitiveness Committee ask for more flexibility regarding grand tree preservation, more flexibility for city staff to approve removals and rescinding the 50 % tree preservation rule in certain areas of the city.
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The voice that has been the loudest in changing the city code has been the Tampa Bay Builders Association and the voice of the people needs to be heard.
Tampa DSA Skull Session In Seminole Heights
Tampa Residents Want Their Money Back
For years, Tampa residents posted "5-minute parking" signs, like this one in Palma Ceia to keep people from parking for extended periods in front of their homes. But the city repealed the ordinance last month after they ceded their municipal authority over to the State of Florida. Now the City Council is looking at a residential parking permit program. here
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Is the city going to reimburse the taxpayers to whom they allowed to purchase these expensive lawn signs? Since 1989, the city approved of, and in some cases even enforced the ordinance that the individual homeowners (at their own expense) displayed.
Adam Putnam: Proud #NRASellout
Last week, in an embarrassing blip of social media that did not come from the president, Florida’s leading Republican gubernatorial candidate, Adam Putnam, tweeted: “I’m a proud #NRASellout!” This may be perfectly predictable behavior from a Republican vying to become Florida’s next governor. But it’s hardly a declaration of leadership or individualism. here
Monday, July 31, 2017
Florida turns over voter-roll data to Trump
Florida provided voter-roll data to Donald Trump’s election-fraud commission Friday despite a lawsuit by the ACLU of Florida attempting to prevent the state from providing the information. here
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Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner complied with the request.
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Florida Utilities, Were Warned Of Climate-Change Risks Since 1970s
Florida Power & Light: The third-largest utility in America routinely brags about how responsive it's been to the impacts of climate change, a new report outlines that it has known about the effects of climate change since the 1970s.
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They along with Duke Power and the Panhandle's Gulf Power have for decades been funding PR campaigns to discount climate science as untrustworthy and untrue. The report also hits Gulf Power for funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to climate-denying scientists.
Rick Scott's Wolfe: Pete Antonacci
You remember “The Wolfe.” He was the character played by Harvey Keitel in the Quentin Tarantino movie, Pulp Fiction. “I solve problems,” was how The Wolfe described his many-faceted job working for a powerful, but unseen boss. Florida’s Winston Wolfe is Pete Antonacci, who fixes things for Gov. Rick Scot. here
Florida Trump Supporter Lynn Aronberg
The former Miami Dolphins cheerleader is a staunch Republican and supporter of Trump. here
The Solar City of South Miami
South Miami 4th City In the country that will now mandate solar power be installed in newly built homes or those subject to material renovation. here
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Developers and builders expressed ‘concern’ over the mandate adding costs to homes and that leading people to not be able to afford to buy from them. The good news is that that is not a very valid concern.
First, the local real estate market in South Miami (and South Florida) is robust. People love living here and are paying record prices for homes, homes often filled will all sorts of costly technology, kitchens or bathroom fixtures that you’ve never heard a builder suggest impacted their ability to build or sell a home. But they are somehow against solar and residents having free power from the sun? FP&L’s concern over the proposed new law and my guess is that they will work hard to fight it and do almost anything to protect their business. You need only look at FP&L’s shameful attempt to mislead voters last year on Amendment 1 here in Florida, and in the process reportedly spent millions of dollars trying to deceive voters on before losing. The ordinance won final approval Tuesday on a 4-1 vote with Commissioner Josh Liebman voting no. (Pic)
Rick Scott's Price-Tag For Losing Legal Battles Continues To Grow
Since Scott took office the state has paid at least $19 million to cover expenses and fees for opposing lawyers. here
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Times Gone Mad
"The world is taking notice of our great city. None of it is an accident"
Benjamin Kirby's thoughts on the unfortunate recommendation from the Tampa Bay Times here
Florida Koch Heads
Koch-founded
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) released its 2017
The People In Charge Of The Public Buses In Hillsborough County
Mass transit in the Tampa Bay area is, by most measures, the worst among the nation's top 20 metro areas. We have far fewer buses here, 360 compared to 600 or more elsewhere. The people at HART COULD CARE LESS.
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The bus system holds little appeal for the broader segment of people like them — busy, successful professionals. they seldom if ever ride the bus. HERE
The Hillsborough PTC Is Dead
After years of tormenting ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft, as well as their customers, with burdensome regulations designed to prop up area taxi cab companies, the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission is set to be dissolved later this year by an act of the Legislature. here
Public VS Chris's Plumbing In Tampa
Friday, July 28, 2017
Stogie's HART Ride
11.10 am: #6: Busch and 56th St.
Temple Terrace
11:39 am: Net Park (Pic)
Marion Transit Center
12:10 pm #6 Arrive
12:30 #4 To my destination.
Empty
12:50 pm: Bay To Bay and Concordia St.
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Falafel Fundraiser at Zaytoon Grill: Meet Akilé and Jesse
Transit Now Tampa Bay In Ybor City
Thursday, July 27, 2017
The Gudel Twins In Ybor City
Visit them here
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Our Local Hero Dane Powell
On January 20th thousands of protesters from across the country descended upon Washington D.C. to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump. Several hundred of these protesters participated in an anti-fascist anti-capitalist march that resulted in the arrests of over 230 people. Dane was one of them. On july 7th he was sent to prison and could face decades there. more
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
The Left Can Win In The South
Bernie Sanders may be the most popular politician in the country today, but his defeat across the South should have been a wake-up call for the left. Future candidates must learn from his missteps if they’re serious about winning.
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“You’re not gonna win people over in the South with a tweet or a Facebook post. It’s getting out there and pressing the flesh and listening to people’s hopes and dreams…. we have to work and have stronger efforts to not just say people need decent wages or a decent place to live, but good wages and a good place to live.” Our Revolution’s newly appointed president, Nina Turner, a former state senator from Ohio and
a prominent Sanders surrogate.
a prominent Sanders surrogate.
MPO Public Meeting "TampaBayNext" and "The Boulevard"
1.5 Million Floridians Could Lose Their Health Coverage
The healthcare replacement bill that Senate Republicans are intent on pushing toward a vote this week, despite being declared dead a few days ago for lack of support within their own party, would mean the loss of health coverage for almost 1.5 million Floridians. here
The Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida - Tampa Chapter
Join them here
Monday, July 24, 2017
Florida 's Culture Of Corruption: Charter-Schools
Richard Corcoran
Manny Diaz
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Legislators who profit from the charter-school industry in private life and have been actively involved in pushing — and successfully passing — legislation to fund for-profit private schools at the expense of public education. here
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Ybor City Before I-275 Destroyed Tampa's Urban Core
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