BP Opens First Claims Office In Tampa Bay

BP set up a claims office in Clearwater over the weekend, its first in the Tampa Bay area. The storefront at 2551 Drew St. is the oil giant's 12th claims office in Florida and one of 35 in states affected by the oil spill........here

Jennifer Capriati

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Peter Allen For Governor Of Florida

The Independence Party Of Florida

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Destruction Of The Gulf Of Mexico

Do you live in an area that is being affected by the oil spill? Do you have photo or video of what's happening on the coastlines? We want to see your on-the-ground photos.

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Pensacola Beach Covered In Oil And Tar

Look At What These Monsters Have Done To Our Home!

Cathy Salustri's Hard Candy

2010 Florida Netroots Awards
Best New Blogger Nominee
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Gulf Oil Spill: A Catastrophe of Epic Proportions

As the Gulf oil spill crisis enters its fourth week, independent scientists estimate that the volume of this spill in one week matches that of the 1969 Exxon Valdez disaster, making the Gulf spill by far the worst such disaster in U.S. history......here
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Idiots In The News: Republican Rep. Joe Barton

On The $20 Billion BP Was Asked To Pay For The Gulf Cleanup
"I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subject to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion dollar shakedown...a $20 billion dollar slush fund."......Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas

Seize BP!

Oil Spill - WorldNet Daily Says It Was God

Carl Gallups - Hickory Hammock Baptist Church - Milton, Florida
Yes, that’s right folks. I knew it would be just a matter of time, but the tea bagger crazies are now claiming the oil spill in the Gulf was caused by God......here

Florida Beaches Turning Black

A Memo To Kendrick Meek

Kenneth Quinnell, the uber-smart new media director for the Kendrick Meek campaign, recently asked a few of us in the blogging community for feedback on “on the candidate, the campaign and our new media outreach efforts.” While I am sure Ken would have preferred for me to deliver my counsel privately, I wouldn’t tell him anything privately that I wouldn’t write on this blog. So here goes.......here

Kendrick Meek 2010

Otis Padgett

In 1971, after integration, Otis Padgett became band director at Buchanan, where his students racked up honors. He retired in 1990, died in 2004. A scholarship in his name has been established........here

Treehouse Presents: Infected Mushroom

At Czar In Ybor City
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Progressives and Obama

Norman Solomon: From Wall Street to the war, this isn't what progressive democrats voted for

The Refinery In Seminole Heights

Here The Mantra Is: Local, Local, Local.
The Refinery, on N Florida Avenue just south of Hillsborough Avenue, has a circle-of-life partnership with the Seminole Heights Community Garden, on Violet Street, just a nine-minute walk away......here

Florida State Board of Administration

Bill McCollum, Alex Sink, and Charlie Crist
If potential voters would read about the SBA, they would discover that trustees Alex Sink, Bill McCollum, and Charlie Crist are guilty of gross incompetence and negligence in the way they lost billions of our dollars as a result of ignoring the advice in at least 19 internal audits, while pandering to special interests.......here
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Welcome To The Contaminated State Of Florida

The Beginning Of The End

Tourist Businesses From Pensacola To Panama City

Are feeling the full financial crunch of the massive oil spill, as normally packed parking lots sat nearly empty Saturday despite offers of discounts in an effort to drum up customers.....here

Gay Pride Festival In St. Pete

Tens of thousands of people gathered near downtown St. Petersburg for the annual gay pride festival Saturday and the rest of the city pretty much shrugged. Organizers estimated turnout along Central Avenue at 80,000, about the same as last year........here

Crowds Join Hands Along Area Beaches To Protest Oil Drilling

Hundreds gather to join hands Saturday at noon north of Pier 60 on Clearwater Beach while participating in the international Hands Across the Sand event.....here

Tampa Cops Resort To Planet of the Apes Style Policing

To Let The Scum Public Know Who Their Bosses Are
Restaurants and bars are whacked with county health violations if they so much as operate a dysfunctional dishwasher, and yet cops are given free reign to swagger through businesses on horseback in some kind of bizarre display of letting the scum know who their bosses are.......here

"It's Good Public Relations".......Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor

Ybor City: Where Cigars Are Still King

At the turn of the 20th century, Tampa, Florida,was the “Cigar Capital of the World.” Ybor City, a section of Tampa located near the port,was the center of cigar manufacturing........here

Tampa Bay Brewing Company

Started back in 1996 by the Doble family, TBBC is located in the entertainment district of Tampa known as Ybor City. They offer seasonal beers, year-round taps, a full menu, and a mug club frequent drinker program.......here

Ybor City's First Fire Station

The Mirta Hook and Ladder Volunteer Fire Station was established on this site. The station was named in honor of the youngest daughter of Don Vicente Martinez Ybor, founder of Ybor City.......here

The Ybor City Tattoo Company

Grand Opening & Art Show
Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 6pm to 10pm
Ybor City Tattoo Company
1730 7th Ave, Ybor City
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Raining Oil In Louisiana

Dr. Riki Ott In Tarpon Springs

Dr. Riki Ott came to speak to the local community and fishermen of Tarpon Springs. For those of you that do not know who she is, she is an Exxon Valdez survivor. She has written two books about her experiences......here