In all, about 700 people crowded into the cavernous All People's Life Center in North Tampa to ask Hillsborough County commissioners to spare their favorite programs from budget cuts.........here
Of being the mayor of the 2nd meanest city in the country to the homeless. From what I have heard it doesn't bother him.........here Four Florida Cities In The Top Ten. Congratulations Orlando, Gainesville, Bradenton And St. Petersburg.
More than 100 gay-right protesters took to downtown Tampa to criticize the recent airing of an anti-gay, hourlong paid program on NBC affiliate News Channel 8 (run on the same day as the St. Petersburg Gay Pride Parade).
The Hillsborough County Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to name an award and a senior center after former Elections Supervisor Phyllis Busansky..........here
A non-profit Food Bank, delivers food to 35,000 hungry people living in the Tampa Bay area every week. Almost a quarter of those people are children and more than a third of those people had to between buying food or paying their mortgage or utilities bills..........more America's Second Harvest of Tampa Bay
Mary Mulhern will join a delegation of more than 20 Tampa business people traveling to Havana on Friday. The purpose of their five-day trip: to lay the groundwork for trade with Cuba as soon as U.S.-Cuba relations improve.........here
In a distinction our fair city probably doesn’t want, the National Coalition of the Homeless named St. Petersburg the second meanest city in the country toward homeless people.........here
Outside U.S. Senator Bill Nelson’s Regional Office In Tampa
In Washington, D.C, Congress is considering a range of options for health care reform. This afternoon in Tampa, members of MoveOn.org lobbied both Florida Senators to support a strong “public option.”But they were outnumbered by people opposing a public health care option........here