Saturday, July 3, 2010
Tampa Access To The Courtney Campbell Causeway
Karla Price of the city of Tampa reports that the trail connecting Cypress Street with the Courtney Campbell Causeway and then Skyway Park is officially open......here
Jose Menendez Of Tampa
Most bicyclists talk about making bicycling more popular and getting people on bikes.Jose Menendez doesn't just talk. He does. Jose's a doer......here
Friday, July 2, 2010
Pizza In Ybor City
I have said it before, and I’ll likely say it again: Ybor City’s Market on 7th has the best pizza I have ever put in my pizza hole. It even photographs real purty.here
Brian Moore For Governor Of Florida
Based out of Spring Hill, Moore ran for Congress in 2002 and 2004, ran against U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2006 and, in 2008, was the presidential nominee of the Socialist Party. Calling himself “more liberal, more progressive, more left-leaning” than Sink.John Travolta Thanks Florida Fans
John Travolta is thanking his hometown in central Florida after residents lobbied in an online campaign to bring the "Grease Sing-A-Long" to the area. The 1978 classic is being re released in select theaters nationwide, but Ocala wasn't one of them. So residents rushed an online poll that allowed the city with the most voting fans to bring the film to them. Ocala surfaced as No. 1 in the poll, leading by hundreds of votes......here
Ybor City Art Walk
Put on your walking shoes for YBOR ArtWalk! This self-guided tour of Ybor City’s artistic spaces is held the FIRST Saturday of every month from 12:00 noon to 6 p.m.......here
Why We Love The Beach….
and shouldn’t we be mad as Hell that our beaches may be destroyed forever ?!here
BP And US Government Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive
Three environmental groups on Tuesday filed formal notice of their intention to sue BP, the Coast Guard and a string of federal agencies involved in the cleanup. They contend the practice of corralling and torching oil at sea was being conducted without first adequately checking for turtles and likely claiming hundreds of them, including endangered Kemp's ridleys........hereOil Disaster - Relocation UN Vehicles on Florida Base
Thousands of UN vehicles are possibly staging at Reynolds Airpark in Green Cove Springs, Florida. This facility is located near train tracks. There are multiple storage contaners for equipment and gear as well.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
The Pizza Diet: St. Petersburg Man Eats Pizza for 30 Days
Loses 24 PoundsIf someone told you that you could eat pizza -- and only pizza -- with the promise of losing weight, you might just jump on board. One Florida bicyclist and pizza shop owner Matt McClellan said he dropped pounds and improved health with his pizza diet.....here
Tour de Pizza
Brian Blair Pisses His Pants
Brian BlairCandidate for Florida House District 47, was supposedly so shitfaced he pissed his pants.......here
Ybor City Historic District
Vincente Martinez-Ybor, a wealthy Spanish cigar manufacturer from New York and Key West, began development of Ybor City in 1885.here
Steve Wilkie For Florida's 2nd Congressional District
A political realist would probably not give me a very good chance of winning, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the corporately controlled, two-party system is no longer even remotely capable of addressing the needs of American citizens......here
40 Acres of History; Ybor City!
Ybor City, founded in the 1880’s, with its accessible port, and railway locations it attracted the attention of prominent Spanish born cigar manufacturer Vicente Martinez Ybor......here
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Kid Having A Beer At Rays Game
This past Saturday during the Tampa Bay Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game, a 10-year-old boy was seen drinking a beer in the stands. Allegedly the beer was purchased by the adult sitting next to him and the kid chugged it down within ten minutes......here
Joe Allen For Governor Of Florida
I've always been against offshore oil drilling. Florida is the Sunshine State. We should have solar energy as well as wind and wave energy programs. Just the risk of the oil slick coming ashore is already a disaster.here
"Viva Joe!"
Tampa Bar Takes Advantage of Waiter's Stunt at the World Cup.
Last week, 28-year-old St. Petersburg, FL resident Joe Fernandez rushed the field during the World Cup group match between Uruguay and Mexico with a Mexican flag tied around his neck like a cape.
An Oilicane?
The gulf oil spill is bad but it could become much, much worse and soon. The threat is a hurricane moving over the spill. If a hurricane’s violent winds track over the spill, we could witness a natural and economic calamity that history has never recorded anywhere or anytime. We will literally be in oil-soaked waters. We will have witnessed the first oilicane......here
Old People's Home
Opened in 1924, The Old People's Home was the largest publicly supported home for the elderly in Tampa and represented a major civic achievement......here
Tampa And The Fuentes
There are plenty of things that Tampa is famous for, but it’s very hard to get away from one of its greatest claims to fame, and contributions to world culture, the cigar......here
Tampa #1 In Staged Accidents
Recent data points to a surge in Florida of so-called “staged accidents,” incidents where criminals fake a no-fault accident to collect insurance money. The NICB found that while South Florida remains a hot spot for the crime, operations have expanded northward to Tampa, which has become the activity’s epicenter with 487 questionable accidents that appear staged last year, a 290% increase......here
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The Monster Under The Kennedy Boulevard Bridge
A worker getting off late in downtown Tampa saw a bipedal animal swimming under the Kennedy Bridge. The creatures body was covered with hair and he was eating crabs on the rocks below. When the man got close, the animal swam off at a very high rate of speed north up the Hillsborough River......here
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