The 2011 Champions of Florida’s Middle Class
Sen. Arthenia Joyner (Tampa)
Sen. Nan Rich (Sunrise)
Rep. Lori Berman (Delray Beach)
Rep. Dwight Bullard (Cutler Bay)
Rep. Jeff Clemens (Lake Worth)
Rep. Janet Cruz (Tampa)
Rep. Joe Gibbons (Pembroke Park)
Rep. Evan Jenne (Fort Lauderdale)
Rep. Martin “Marty” Kiar (Parkland)
Rep. Rick Kriseman (St. Petersburg)
Rep. Mark Pafford (West Palm Beach)
Rep. Ari Porth (Coral Springs)
Rep. Scott Randolph (Orlando)
Rep. Franklin Sands (Plantation)
Rep. Elaine Schwartz (Hollywood)
Rep. Irving “Irv” Slosberg (Boca Raton)
Rep. Cynthia Stafford (Miami)
Rep. Richard Steinberg (Miami Beach)
Rep. Geraldine Thompson (Orlando)
Rep. Perry Thurston, Jr. (Fort Lauderdale)
Rep. Alan Williams (Tallahassee)Thank You!
Instead Of Your Dryer, Try This.With the sun down here they will dry in 20 mins. Or The Lazy Conservationist recommends a drying rack, they're inexpensive. This one costs $30.
Local business man and sister giving back to community after growing up as foster children.
Someone has started a petition to punished "Wilana Joenel Frazier" to the fullest extent of the law.
Tuesday, June 21 · 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Creative Loafing in Ybor City
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Who Said Swings Have to Be In Parks?
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It's A Boy.
Hillsborough County Parents Plead For After-School Programs
"The neighborhoods we live in, they're like prisons, you keep cutting from the people who are hurting the most — the little people, you're hurting us even more."......Robert Herman, blue-collar worker with four children who has been unemployed two years.Our wars, that the right-wing started, is costing us $1.6B a year. FedEx at TIA hasn't paid county property taxes for over 10 years. Those back taxes could help pay for After-School Programs.
State Of The Blogger
The Workers
Litbrit - Out In Left Field - MadFloridian - Tampa Do-Gooder - Pushing Rope
Recreating Tampa - The Spencerian - St. Petersblog - Alan Snel - Progress Florida
SOG City Oracle - Finding Tampa - tiny little dots - Ridiculously Inconsistent Trickle Of Consciousness Just Keep Swimming - Ybor City Stogie
The Slackers
The Campaign Manager - Bartlet Park - Tampa RailJust Kidding Gentlemen.
What are you thinking?
Forget what everyone is saying and keep your job. Let the voters decide. Republicans have done alot worse. In other countries the sex lives of politicians is not news. It took the French guys visit to the US to get him busted.
You did lie to your hot wife and the American people.
Ham
With Rice, Greens, Corn Bread and a drink.
$6.50.....Martha's Place in Seminole Heights.
How Much Was Your Last Value Meal?
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Hasn't paid county property taxes since 2000. They just got caught last year.
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Republican County Commissioner Sandy Murman told fellow adjustment board members that she worried about imposing a new tax on local businesses.
Introduce kids ages 8 to 12 to principles that include "America is good," "I believe in God," and "I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable."
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Fun, Fun, Fun.
Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard. On the second day, the "banker" will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value.
Another example: Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe, the children will pass through an obstacle course to arrive at a brightly decorated party room (the New World).
Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other's bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.Update: At Mother Jones
Meet Chris
He is 18 years old. He sleeps with friends at night. He is a panhandler doing the day.
Florida Police Leave The Republican Party In Mass Exodus
Rick Scott is so unpopular that he has caused the Broward County Police Benevolent Association to leave the Republican Party en mass, and they are encouraging other Floridians to do the same. They are so outraged that on July 16, the union will be holding a “Party to Leave The Party” event.
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Children as young as 10 years old say they watched her beat two kittens with a baseball bat before she and her two children kicked them numerous times. Once one of the animals appeared to have died, the body was thrown in a trash receptacle while one of the children poured water over it.
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Antipasto
Lettuce, tomato, green peppers, onion, mushrooms, ham, salami, pepperoni, mortadella, cheeses and olives.
$6.95....At Stephanno's Pizza, 6607 N Florida Ave in TampaHow Much Was Your Last Value Meal?
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The Candidates:
Gabrielle Perham, Stuart Mackey and Lisa Kennedy
Gabrielle Perham, her charity is the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
The Stogie remembers great times at the Ybor City Boys Club when he was a boy.
Other famous fans Denzel Washington, George Lopez, Ron Howard, Jon Bon Jovi, Michael Jordan....more
Tampa, Florida
Florida: Targeting The Poor, Refusing To Protect Children
Feministe
Florida Doctors Fight Back Against Gun Lobby Gag Law
Huffington Post
Florida Activists Are Pushing Back Against Gov. Rick Scott And His Crazy Agenda
Crooks And Liars
Florida Awakes
Suburban Guerrilla
There is a price to pay for voter apathy.
“I think that what’s happened during the last election was that everybody got a little comfortable and didn’t think that their voice or their vote was that important, and that’s gotta change.”.......St. Pete resident Kirsten Peck
This Saturday, June 11th!
The Women Build Team is hosting a Tomboy Tools fundraiser this Saturday! Betsy Lieberman, a local Tomboy Tools consultant, will have a booth at Habitat Hillsborough, located at 3736 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, so you can try out tools before you buy! A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Women Build House.
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It seems the City of Orlando has ticked off the wrong people. The group Peoples Liberation Front says it will take Orlando's official website offline at 10 a.m. Friday morning. But this nonviolent resistance is just a warning shot: they'll put the site back up at noon, but they promise next time they won't be so facilitating.
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Oven Baked Spaghetti
with Italian Sausage and Garlic Knots
$7.25.....At Stephanno's Pizza, 6607 N Florida Ave, Tampa
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A show case of Florida’s best young Americana bands.
Saturday Jul 9, 4:00PM
Skipper's Smokehouse - Tampa
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Democrat Murphy Launches Online Ad Campaign Targeting Tea Party Darling Allen West.
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Earlier today Bay area Republican gadfly Michael Pinson – who has a long-running fued with progressive Democrat blogger Peter Schorsch — sent a complaint via e-mail, to Hillsborough County Republican Party Chairwoman Deborah Cox-Roush about Schorsch’s involvement with GOP politics.
