Florida Cops Kill Man For Public Intoxication

The man’s wife asked that he be taken to the hospital, but Lee County cops allegedly decided instead to “strip Christie naked, tie him to a chair, cover his face,
and then pepper spray him repeatedly, until he died.”

His death was ruled a homicide because he was restrained and repeatedly pepper-sprayed by law enforcement officers. But to this day, no one has been charged with a crime, and the state attorney cleared the sheriff’s office of criminal fault in the case.
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Occupy Tampa Marches Prisoners Thru Ybor City

Ben Kirby Will Answer Your Political Questions

No question is too weird, no subject is off the table.

Just so long as it's political.
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Project Downtown

USF students unify with Progress Village Middle Magnet, and East Bay to impact the homeless in downtown Tampa.

Central Ave Santa

Get your pic taken with Santa. Help these folks out, only $5.00.
On Central Ave just north of Sligh in Tampa

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Boliche
With Spanish Bean Soup and Yellow Rice
$6.99 At La Teresita Restaurant, 7101 66th St, Pinellas Park
How Much Was Your Last Value Meal?
Eat Local!

Put Education First?

In St. Pete

WMNF: The Blind Boys of Alabama

Saturday Jan 14 8:00PM
Skipper's Smokehouse - Tampa
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I love these guys!

A DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN

Wednesday, December 21 @ 7:30pm
Cafe Bohemia, 937 Central Ave. St. Petersburg.
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Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Exists

About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category. Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population.
Pushing Rope

Occupy Tampa "Arrested" For Protesting NDAA

Occupy Tampa staged a theatrical protest against the National Defense Authorization Act and its provisions that permit indefinite detention without trial. These protesters were "arrested" by the "military" outside Centro Ybor in Ybor City. Later they marched to the Tampa headquarters of the Obama 2012 campaign to call on the president to veto the spending bill.

Drink Local

Tour the Yuengling brewery in Tampa where "America's Oldest Brewery" uses modern technology to brew fine beer in a time-honored tradition.

Sample the Yuengling heritage for yourself at the brewery's biergarten.
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Let's keep our local jobs!

Pic Gaspar's Patio in Temple Terrace

The Legend of Krampus in Ybor City

Tampa and Ybor City already have some great celebration events, from Gasparilla to Guavaween. Why not another? As far as I’m concerned, we need as many excuses to play dress-up and wander from bar to bar as we can find. To that end I recommend that Tampa adopt Krampusnacht as a local celebration.

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Green Recruiters

Riverview

Snowing on 7th Ave - Ybor City

Named One of "America's Great Top 10 Streets"

What Stogie Had For Lunch

All You Can Eat $9.29
Fred's Southern Kitchen
Plant City
Great food, yummy.