Cedric Liqueur In Ybor City

Buffalo Soldiers Performance: First Sergeant George Jordan
Jan. 21, 12:15pm

Centro Asturiano
1913 N Nebraska Ave, Ybor City
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Tough Times Ahead for Florida

Recent data released from the Census Bureau shows that Jacksonville, Florida is the home of one of the largest communities of gay parents in the country. However, Florida’s Governor Rick Scott has just appointed a conservative Christian by the name of David Wilkins
as the head of the Department of Children & Families.

According to the Miami Herald:

Wilkins, a member of the governor’s transition team, is the finance chief of the Florida Baptist Children’s Home, a private agency that allows only “professing Christians” to adopt children in its care.

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Baby Pic Courtesy Of Danyelle Jones.

We Are Change Tampa Confront Commissioners

Fluoride poisoning exposed by WAC Tampa we slam county commissioners for accepting putting a certified toxin in our water and forcibly medicating the public.

Tampa Do-Gooder

Leaving The Path Of Least Rresistance
I came up with Tampa Do-Gooder over a year and a half ago so I could focus on that giving side of myself and others, and I'm still surprised when I come across true do-gooders. I may have the heart and the desire, but I spend more energy frustrated and not knowing how I can best help than actually doing. Intentions are great motivators but they fade like dreams when you fail to act upon them.
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Republicans Wasting Our Money

Swiftly Honoring A Campaign Pledge
Newly empowered Republicans pushed legislation to repeal the nation's year-old health care overhaul through the House Wednesday night, brushing aside implacable opposition in the Senate and a veto threat from President Barack Obama.
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Showing-Off To The Flock!

Live On Bay News 9 From Blake High School

Conversation With The Candidates
Feb. 8 at 7 p.m.
Bob Buckhorn, Rose Ferlita, Dick Greco, Thomas Scott And Ed Turanchik.
The monkey cannot make it.
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Stop The War On The Cuban People

Free Flow Of Information - End The Embargo

Let me offer a bit of hopeful prognostication: someday the embargo will go away. Probably not tomorrow, not the next day, not next week, probably not even next year. The embargo hurts the people of Cuba, not the terrible regime (even a kid can understand this concept)."......The Spencerian

Flights To Cuba Out Of TIA

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Lonnie
He has been homeless 9 months. He is from Tampa.
Tampa Bay Homeless

Kind Words From Peter Schorsch

A Brief Tribute To The Ybor City Stogie
All of the rich-and-powerful who read this site, all of the political players who I hope read my work, all of the Masters-of-the-Universe at the Governor’s Club lounge or the Tampa Club…far too few of them read, much less agree with, the writings of the Ybor City Stogie – a rudimentary cut-and-paste of Florida and Tampa Bay’s right-wing.

But I read you Stogie. And so did many others. They may not walk the corridors of power (maybe they do) but you’re readers are out there. Your features on the homeless, on the downtrodden, on the discriminated are, on one hand, heartbreaking; on the other hand, they are inspiring.

Stogie, you’ve got balls. You recently, oh-so-subtlety called out some of our fellow bloggers, asking where the hell is everybody. And for that alone, you have my respect.

In your eyes, Stogie, I must seem like a sell-out because I don’t fight for every left-wing or Democratic candidate. In fact, there are quite a few Republicans I support, respect and admire. But that’s me — working from the inside out. You keep doing what you are doing — reminding all of us what we should be saying and thinking.

Peter Schorsch

Local Republicans Bicker

Michael Ciftci Is Squirrel Poop

In a post published earlier Tuesday on CL’s News & Politics site, CL contributor and Republican political consultant Chris Ingram took a shot at Michael Ciftci. A fellow Republican who is running in the District 3 Tampa City Council seat this March......From Mitch Perry, From Chris Ingram

Tampa Target Of Partial Panhandling Ban

Tampa City Council Chairman Tom Scott is proposing a partial city ban on panhandling that would include major roads like Dale Mabry, Kennedy, Fowler and Fletcher.

Mr. Scott you are running for mayor and this is the best you can come up with?

WTF

Should Mr. Obama be according Mr. Hu the kind of pomp and circumstance ordinarily reserved for more like-minded allies. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, is a political prisoner in China. And Mr. Obama himself won the prize in 2009.

“It creates a situation where a Nobel Peace Prize laureate is hosting a banquet for a leader who is imprisoning another Nobel Peace Prize laureate.”.....Michael Green

Homeless Dwellings

In Tampa
Tampa Bay Homeless

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Parrilla Argentina
With Black Beans And Yellow Rice
$13.00.....At El Puerto Restaurant In Ybor City
Eat Local!

SWFBUD's PSA Poster

SWFBUD believes both motorists and bicyclists need to be educated about road safety and that we're all responsible.
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Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Lisa
She has been homeless 18 years. She is from Georgia.
Tampa Bay Homeless

WMNF's Record and Book Sale

Saturday, January 22nd
WMNF members, get in before the rest of the crowd at 9:30am. The rest of you can come in at 10am.
Cuban Club In Ybor City

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Grass Root Organic Restaurant

2702 N. Florida Avenue In Tampa
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Eat Local!

Friends Of Stogie

Streets Of Tampa Bay

America's Darker Days

Spoke to this gentleman at Florida And Hillsborough in Tampa.
He asked me to visit his church.

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Stop Greco!

For Info On The Upcoming City Elections
Visit Re/Creating Tampa

So Far The Stogie Recommends,
Ed Turanchik, Kelly Benjamin, Yvonne Yolie Capin, Carroll “Carrie” West And Mary Mulhern.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Alambres Oaxaca
Shredded beef, chorizo, bacon, green bell pepper, and poblano chile. With rice and
refried beans.
$8.99......At The Taco Bus In Tampa.

Eat Local!

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Larry
He is from Arkansas. Has lived in Tampa since 1981. He has been homeless 2 years.
Tampa Bay Homeless

The Way They Do It In Lubbock, Texas

Homeless Pitch Tents In Public Lot; City Says It's Legal.
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Via.....the 13th juror

Incident at Oglala - The Leonard Peltier Story

Wednesday, January 19 @ 7:30pm
Cafe Bohemia, 937 Central Ave. St. Petersburg

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Is Florida A Commodity Or A Treasure?

That is the question former U.S. Sen. and Gov. Bob Graham asked after his speech Friday to the Economic Club of Florida on the oil spill disaster in the Gulf. Although he chose his words carefully, his point is that the political climate today has revived the question which he believes was put to rest 40 years ago:
Is Florida for sale?

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Some Fun Shooting in Ybor City

Tampa Based Editorial Photographer
Jim Sykes

Open Carry Law In Florida

Republican Senator Greg Evers has proposed a loosening of the state’s gun laws in a bill which would allow gun owners with a permit to openly wear their handguns in public view.
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