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

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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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The Rick Baker Song

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Jeff Danner Dodges The Truth

Jeff Danner is cornered by peace group activists and Christina Sylva of the St. Petersburg Times.

The Florida Whig Party

Two more Modern Whig Party members have announced a run for Congress in Florida. Paul McKain announced his months ago, and now Clayton Schock and John Annarumma are running in Florida’s 20th and 3rd congressional districts, respectively.......here

HART - Hillsborough Area Regional Transit

Solar Powered Bus Stop Shelter

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Pat Bean, Renee Lee And Kevin White

Neighborhood Activist George Niemann

Has filed complaints with the Florida Ethics Commission against three Hillsborough County officials. "What I've charged in all three circumstances is that they've used the power of their official office to gain benefits that they weren't otherwise entitled to," said Niemann, a board member for the United Citizens' Action Network.......here

Let's Not Forget Buddy Johnson!

What Stogie Had For Breakfast

2 Eggs With Home Fries And Bacon
$4.95......3 Coins Diner In Seminole Heights

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Glenn Beck Cultist Gather Outside St. Petersburg Times

More than 100 protesters marched outside the entrance to the main office of the St. Petersburg Times Saturday morning, accusing the newspaper and the media in general of biased reporting on conservative positions on issues such as health care reform and government spending.......here

St. Petersburg Police At Its Finest

A Frame-By-Frame Account Of The Brawl At City Hall
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St Pete City Council: They Privatize - We Protest

After the St Pete city council sold out the people and voted to privatize the sidewalk in front of the Baywalk shopping mall, protesters let city officials and Baywalk know what they thought about their attempts to stomp on the First Amendment.

Antonio Arementero Moreno of Tampa

Was arrested Wednesday and charged with Sexual Battery on a Child Older Than 12 and Lewd and Lascivious Molestation on a Child Older Than 12........here

Skywatch Friday

Tampa Daily Photo

The Florida Politburo

Party chair Karen Thurman stopped me from speaking at the convention. At the reception on the first night she blocked me from the microphone and said, “I'm not going to let you do that because I want to focus our resources on one person.” .......here

On the first day my $500 table happened to be in the best location at the convention –– at the terminating vista of the reception hall. When my delegates and I returned the next morning, we found that
FDP officials had put all of my campaign materials in storage and I had been assigned to a barren and distant room at the opposite end of the convention center.