Monday, February 13, 2023
A conversation with Tampa’s District 1 city council candidates
Tampa City Council candidates Alan Clendenin, Sonja Brookins and Chase Harrison joined WMNF WaveMakers to talk about why they’re challenging Joe Citro for his District 1 City Council seat.
Listen to the Interview HERE
Soul Saturday
Description
SOUL SATURDAY is part of a limited series of outdoor dance party experiences presented in the oasis of the Ybor Garden Museum. Melt away to Neo Soul, House, and R&B!
Event Details
Open Bar, Curated Artist Market, 2 Live DJ sets. Neo Soul, House, and R&B!
The Citrus Taliban Attacks USF
The activist who's helped frame critical race theory as a threat for conservatives has a new target: the University of South Florida. more
"Fuck this guy and Governor Ron DeSantis. You come for USF if you want to, we will fight you." Chris Cano
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Sunday, February 12, 2023
Raybor: The Monstor That Won't Go Away
The negotiations to entice the Tampa Bay Rays to a new stadium near Ybor City are still ongoing but now are being conducted by the Tampa Sports Authority behind closed doors and beyond public scrutiny.
This writer wants to know....what is more disturbing, the look of the new proposed Tampa Bay Rays stadium (pictured above) or the hundreds of baseball fans, having no concept of the cultural beauty of Historic Ybor, who will be invading 7th Avenue several nights a week during the baseball season?
In 2018 we came razor close to closing a deal with the Tampa Bay Rays to move to Ybor City but a concerted public pushback convinced the Hillsborough County Commission to nix the deal.
Now we are again faced with the looming prospect of the monster called Raybor reappearing in the neighborhood. Will we again see RAYBOR banners hanging from the 2nd floor balconies of Historic Ybor buildings? One of the more prominent real estate developers in Tampa, Darryl Shaw, is gobbling up properties, including the site of the proposed stadium, in and around Ybor City with the clear intent of gentrifying the neighborhood and a major league baseball stadium would be a glaring benchmark of this gentrification.
This stadium would cost over $1 billion and a large portion, perhaps half, of that would be funded by public funds, primarily the county bed tax. This is money that should be earmarked for the benefit of the local economy and not a cashcow for wealthy property owners and investors in the Tampa Bay Rays franchise. Numerous academic studies conclude that major sports stadiums are of little or no benefit to the local economies where they are built. In fact, money spent at sports stadiums that would often be spent in local entertainment establishments ends up instead in the hands of land owners, investors, athletes and other sports personnel, where it has no impact on the local economy at all.
I only hope that I, and others, have the energy to fight another round against Raybor.
Let's UNBAN the Stogie from Facebook
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Qualified Tampa Municiple Candidates & Proposed City Charter Amendments
For civic minded citizens, here is a list of the City of Tampa qualified candidates that will be on the your 2023 ballot (as of 2/12/23).
Early Voting: February 27 - March 5, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Election Day: March 7, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Mayor: Belinda Noah (Write-in), Jane Castor
City Council Dist. 1: Alan Clendenin, Chase Harrison, Joseph Citro, Sonja P Brookins
City Council Dist. 2: Guido Maniscalco, Michael Derewenko, Mike Suarez, Robin Lockett
City Council Dist. 3: George Feshev, Janet Cruz, Jose Vazquez , K.J. Allen, Lynn Hurtak
City Council Dist. 4: Bill Carlson, Blake J. Casper
City Council Dist. 5: Evelyn Jané-Marie McBride (Write-in), Gwendolyn "Gwen" Henderson, Orlando L. Gudes
City Council Dist. 6: Charlie Miranda, Hoyt Prindle, Nicole Payne, Rick Fifer, Tyler Barrett
City Council Dist. 7: Luis Viera (Unopposed)
All ballots will include four proposed amendments to the Tampa Charter. For more information, review the ordinances below.
Ron DeSantis and the Legislature are about to take health insurance away from hundreds of thousands of Floridians
Only four other states go further than Florida in restricting access to Medicaid. A single parent with two children can’t get coverage for themselves through Medicaid unless they make less than $7,000 a year. An adult without a child can’t get Medicaid coverage at all.
And Florida is one of just 11 states that still has not expanded Medicaid coverage under the 2010 Affordable Care Act. That keeps Medicaid coverage beyond the reach of an estimated 800,000 lower-income Floridians. More than half are people who fall into the “coverage gap,” which means they make too much money to qualify for Medicaid under Florida’s brutish rules but not enough to qualify for federal subsidies that might help them buy private health insurance.
This and many more of the insanely cruel measures our state legislature is considering are discussed in this article
More HERE
Saturday, February 11, 2023
50th Commemoration of the Liberation of Wounded Knee, Oglala Lakota Nation
FEBRUARY 26, 2023 AT 1 PM – 4 PM
300 Bayshore Blvd, Tampa
Republicans called out for trying to distance themselves from Rick Scott's Social Security and Medicare plan
Republicans have been rushing to distance themselves from a plan put forward during the last election by Rick Scott, which calls for raising taxes on the poor and "sunsetting" Social Security and Medicare every five years, ever since President Joe Biden called it out at the State of the Union Address earlier this week. MORE
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