Connect Tampa Bay Transportation Proposal

WHEN: Thursday, January 30 at 6 PM

WHERE: 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa Museum of Art, Downtown Tampa

INFO

Florida Supreme Court Approves Medical Marijuana

The State Supreme Court has approved the ballot language 4-3 - and thus the voters of Florida will get to vote on Medical Marijuana in November 2014.....more>

On November 4th we can make history boys and girls

Learn about the Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act

Tell your friends and VOTE
Stogie's Smoke Shop

 You can help end the federal war on marijuana.
here

The Panhandle Has Had Enough

Gwen Graham

Has outraised Tea Party Congressman Steve Southerland for the second quarter in a row, by more than $200,000 and now sit with a $200,000 cash on hand advantage over his campaign.

Help her out here, visit his countdown clock here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless Living In Tampa

The Florida Extortion Game

CNN devoted nearly 15 minutes in prime time Wednesday evening to a report on what anchor Anderson Cooper called "the extortion game" of pay-to-play politics -- and a case study in the piece was Gov. Rick Scott......more>

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Fried Pork Chop

With yellow rice, collard greens, mac and cheese and corn bread. $10 

A friend from Flint, Michigan was down to visit and wanted me to take him to the best BBQ in town. So I took him to Big John's on 40th street, a place I have been going to since I was a boy.  On Sunday only Mama Beth cooks soulfood.......more>

St. Pete Based Drug Free America Foundation

Opposes the medical marijuana  initiative and will mount a campaign urging resident to vote “no,”

"We believe that if this gets to the ballot, Floridians will vote wisely and reject it,”

Executive Director Calvina Fay

 May we remind Ms. Fay a recent poll found

65 percent support among Florida voters. Only 23 percent of voters say they oppose it.

VOTE 11.4.14

Florida Corporate Welfare State

Rick Scott wants to give $100 million 

To Busch Gardens, Sea World, Universal Orlando and Disney World. Scott wants to take "It's Your Money" as he refers to it, and hand it over to these companies in the promotion of tourism. He says he's doing it for "Florida families" in the name of his similarly named " Florida Families First Budget".......more 

Tampa HART

Hillsborough County leaders are drawing up plans to remake the HART bus system into an expansive agency that can oversee construction of countywide transportation projects ang the authority to build roads and rail and create new bus routes.....more

Commissioners Kevin Beckner, Mark Sharpe and Sandy Murman all nominated HART.

Mayor Bob likes the idea, so do we. If anything is right around here it is them. 

“When you’re talking about transportation, for me it’s logical to think HART, why would you recreate the wheel and create a whole new agency.” Kevin Beckner

Fracking In The Everglades

Florida Republican Ray Rodrigues 

of Ft. Myers has introduced two bills this session that would make it easier for this controversial oil and gas extraction process to take place in Florida.

While there are no planned fracking projects in Florida as of yet,

Rep. Rodrigues' two bills will cut off the public's right to know 

the details of what would be pumped into the ground during the fracking process.

Give Fracking Same Scrutiny As Medical Marijuana

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