Seminole Heights FDOT Meeting May 5th

They didn't want anymore of this. here

Miami Pot Scores High

61% -36%

In favor of medical marijuana

here

Tampa Hoods

Tampa Heights Corner of Florida and Palm.

Is Susan Smith And Deborah Mary Newell Leaving The Democratic Party?

"Count me in that (one-third of voters). I'm going to vote for Alan Grayson in Florida's August primary for Senate, then I'm out of the Democratic Party for good. Same thing with the husband and both voting-age sons. Well-done, Democratic Party! I'm hard-pressed to think of a more disappointing, corrupt establishment purporting to represent "progress". Deborah Mary Newell

"I came close to leaving the Democratic Party in 2010 over its ineptitude. If what I heard this afternoon is true--that someone in the Miami Dade Democratic Party is trying to push Senator Dwight Bullard out of his Senate run--then that could be it for me. Senator Bullard is a champion for women, minorities, low-income communities and the public schools. He is a progressive hero. If the party tries to push him out to make room for (yet another) former Republican, I will be done." Susan Smith

Florida INC. Keeping Wages Down

Florida INC. CEO Rick Scott is encouraging economic refugees to move here, to a state with low wages and scarce jobs. More people seeking scarce jobs would help keep labor costs down in Florida, by making sure that existing workers have more competition, and employers don't. It's yet another great way to keep wages down. here

Ringling's Circus Elephants Retire to Florida

The last 11 touring elephants from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus kicked off their retirement in Florida on Friday with a buffet brunch of carrots, apples, celery, loaves of bread and lots of hay.

Florida Progressive Hero Senator Dwight Bullard Wants Legal Recreational Weed

Sen. Dwight Bullard, D-Miami, filed a detailed proposal on Monday that would allow people age 21 and older to possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana for personal use and to cultivate up to six marijuana plants. here

Great job Senator!

Oligarch Rick Scott Laying Ruin To Florida

Scott’s net worth, according to the Tampa Bay Times, went from $84 million in 2012 to $132 million in 2013 to $147 million by the summer of 2015. In 2009, the year before Scott was elected governor, he feared health insurance reform would endanger corporate profits and formed the anti-Obamacare pressure group Conservatives for Patients Rights. Despite being reelected by a narrow margin in 2014, Scott remains unpopular in Florida; in most polls, his approval ratings have generally been in the low 40s. Scott, a persistent opponent of health care reform, has a long history of profiting from the U.S.’ troubled health care system. here

Rick Scott

John Bachtell - Communist Party USA In The Heights

5.12 - 6 pm

Lee's Grocery

A discussion with John Bachtell, national chair of the CPUSA, on this year's campaigns and struggles in the long term...pro-worker, anti-racist, for women's control of their bodies, peace, immigration reform.... Tampa Bay People Before Profits. RSVP

DWS: Numbers Rahm-ba in #FL-23

Community Roots Collective In The Heights

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Ben Pollara: You Vote?

 "Moocher Mel Sembler has promised to collect $10 million of his friends' money to try and keep this medicine out of the hands of patients.  In 2014, Mel got a billionaire to put in $6 million, and it cost patients 2 years of suffering. We must raise millions between now and the end of Summer. We need to make sure voters throughout the state know why they should vote for Amendment 2. Don't assume they know already: This is, because of the presidential race, a larger pool of voters than in 2014." Ben Pollara
Help United For Care here


You vote? John Morgan warned you in 2014 that if you didn't we would lose. Get it right this time. 
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Still Walking- Nakba68 In Ybor

5.14 - 8 PM

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Florida INC. Schools

In case you missed it, Newpoint Education Partners, which operated four struggling schools in Pinellas and one shuttered school in Hillsborough, was indicted by a grand jury last week on grand theft and other charges relating to three Pensacola schools. Millions of dollars in grants and state funds flowed through those schools, which begs an obvious question:

Who's responsible for this mess? The simple answer is the management group. But that's a cop-out. When you give a for-profit company access to taxpayer funds with minimal oversight, should you really be shocked when money is missing? here

Craft Beer Liberals In Tampa Heights

With the best pizza in town 

May Solidarity Sunday 

@ Lee's Grocery on Central Ave in The Heights

Join them here. Visit  the legendary Lee's Grocery here

Texas Polluters To Invade The Everglades

A Texas company won approval Friday to explore for oil at Big Cypress National Preserve. The work would take place across 70,000 acres straddling Alligator Alley about 10 miles west of the Broward County line, a region of cypress and pine forest, swamps and wet prairies that's home to Florida panthers, black bears and much more wildlife. here

Boycott Puerto Rican Summit In Orlando

For the last 7 years, the non-Boricua Dynamic Community Development Corporation of Miami has gotten away with benefiting from an an annual event in Orlando they call the Puerto Rican Summit. They charge corporations interested in targeting the large Boricua market between $5,000 and $10,000 to display their products and services at this annual Orlando two-day event. We cannot allow people to financially exploit the fact that we are a large and loyal consumer market. more

Florida: Shady Solar State

What do you call a super sunny state with regressive and oppressive solar policy, actively working to prevent the healthy development of this clean and affordable source of power? Ironic? Shameful? For those who love a good pun, perhaps “SHADY” is the best term.

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Center for Biological Diversity recently released a report outlining 10 sunny states that are working so hard to keep distributed (rooftop) solar from expanding, and the analysis explains how this unfortunate work is happening. here