Homes With A View

In Gibsonton

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Steak Parmesan
With Yellow Rice And Green Beans
$6.95.....At Pipos In Town n' Country

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John Dingfelder Wants To End Gasparilla Beer Sales

At a workshop last week, city officials and organizers of Tampa's annual Gasparilla parade pledged to come down hard on underage drinkers and inappropriate, drunken behavior. But council member

John Dingfelder, a candidate for the Hillsborough County Commission, wants to take it even further.......here

Yuengling, Stogie's Favorite. Drink Local

America's Safest Cities: Tampa Bay #28

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Brand Tampa Anniversary Party!

In Ybor City
We’ve been online for a year now and it’s time to take the party offline.
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Alex Pickett: Routes Music

For the next month, I’ll be working on a music documentary with my friends Philip Bardi and Terrence Duncan. Routes Music is a documentary film acting as a roving music census, taking in the true musical passions (and disgusts) of folks like you and me, and folks like him and her, all across a place we like to call America........here

The Recycled Yard Art Contest

Rewards the magical transformation of junk into art. The contest that will be held during the Hillsborough County Fair from November 4 to November 8 is open to all Hillsborough County residents,
whether young or old........here

Stand With Dr Dean

Governor Howard Dean, M.D. launches grassroots healthcare reform campaign at www.StandwithDrDean.com and draws line in the sand over healthcare reform which must have a universally available public option, like Medicare, available for all Americans.

Tampa Bay 350 Action Rally

This past Saturday marked the International Day of Climate Action, a global call for an active, scientifically-minded approach to climate change. With 4,000 simultaneous demonstrations taking place in over 180 countries, it was the most widespread day of environmental action in history........here

Steven Kornell, For St. Petersburg City Council

Non-Partisan Candidate, For District 5

What Stogie Had For Lunch

15 Fried Shrimp
With Beef Fried Rice
$6.45.......At Top China 13306 Telecom Dr. In Temple Terrace

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Fake Deer In The Woods

Shady Hills - Pasco County

Tampa Bay Water Is Overpaying Consultants

Tampa Bay Water recently voted to hire KPMG consultants for nearly $1 million to help hire contractors who will repair cracks in a reservoir. The utility’s board wants to get the best contractors for its money to complete the $125 million repairs to the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir in Hillsborough County — but it approved an appalling $908,500 just for consultants........here

A Note To My Right Wing Friends

At this point, you don’t have the capability of winning this debate.

The facts aren’t on your side. Reality isn’t on your side. Continuing to push this argument can’t benefit you. All it does is waste your time, preventing you from learning what’s really going on here in the real world, as opposed to FoxLand.......here

Scientist Says Bay Area Coastline Could Disappear

It may sound alarmist to some, but one scientist says enjoy Clearwater Beach now, because by 2100 it may no longer be there.......here

Friends Of Stogie

In Tampa

Buccaneer Fans Are A Bunch Of Dummies

Raheem The Dream has told a British newspaper that Bucs fans aren’t as smart as they need to be. You see, Rah says the typical Bucs fan just doesn’t get that that the Bucs are not a frugal club. The Glazers and the Bucs just spend smart, Rah says, and you fans can’t grasp the concept.......here

Memorial Service for the Constitution

A memorial will be held in St. Petersburg at 151 2nd ave N at the Baywalk entertainment complex on
October 30th, 2009 at 8:30pm.
A short funeral procession will follow. Everyone who knew the constitution is invited to participate. We are asking all participants to dress in black attire. For more info, send email.
dina@stpeteforpeace.org

HNIC: One White Guy's Opinion

At a recent press conference, Seville Brown, Deveron Gibbons and other prominent members of the African American community expressed their outrage at Kathleen Ford's reference to Dr. Goliath Davis as the HNIC.......here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Meatloaf
With Moro And Green Beans
$5.99......At Rosa's On MLK In Drew Park, Tampa

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Largest Solar Panel Plant In US Rises In Florida

Acres of open land filled with solar panels is seen in a Wednesday, Oct. 21 2009 photo, at the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Ardacia, Fla., which will be the nation's largest solar photovoltaic plant in the country.......here

Jon Gosselin Is Being Laughed At All Over Florida

Appearance Fee Baffles Tampa’s MJ Morning Show

The reality starring Octodad is hoping to clock some cash to feed his brood by keeping an active social calendar filled with public appearances – but you’d better believe Jon’s time don’t come cheap........here

Orlando Peace March A Bust

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama

Is dragging this country into a calamity of years of violence, death and destruction at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and only 65 people showed at the statewide march “to end the war economy” at the University of Central Florida Research Park........here

The Florida Brownfields Association

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