Seminole Heights Sunday Morning Market

First Annual Chili Cook Off
January 9th, 2010
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We Are Not So Dumb After All

According to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday.

Sixty-one percent of Americans polled would rather see taxes for the wealthy increased as a first step to tackling the deficit.

The next most popular way -- chosen by 20 percent -- was to cut defense spending.

Four percent would cut the Medicare government health insurance program for the elderly, and 3 percent would cut the Social Security retirement program.

Asked which part of the world they would fix first, the largest proportion of respondents -- 36 percent -- chose Washington, compared with 23 percent who picked the Middle East and 14 percent who chose Haiti.

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Who the hell are the four percent that would cut Medicare for the elderly?

Happy Birthday Ella!

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Tampa Native Damon Fowler

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Go West!

Carrie West For Tampa City Council
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Solar Trash Compactors In Tampa

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Cheeseburger
With Fries And Cole Slaw
$6.95.....At Frankies, the Gourmet of Fast Food, 909 West Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa
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Afternoon Delight At Al Lopez Park

Tampa Police Corporal Scott Guffey
Sex in broad daylight in a public park is what cost a Tampa undercover cop his job. Chief Jane Castor says the department got a tip from a citizen that Corporal Scott Guffey was involved in inappropriate activity while on duty.
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Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Jim
He is from upstate New York. Has lived in Tampa for 14 years. He has been homeless for about 6 months. Use to work for the Tampa Tribune.

Chef Bob Tampa

Personal Chef Service by Bob Parrinello
Meals for the fridge and freezer. Parties and Events
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Personal Branding in Tampa Bay

To create life-enhancing opportunities and to play a vital role in the Tampa Bay community.
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Gabrielle Perham

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Taking Woodstock
Is a 2009 American comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.
The Good Old Days!

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Shrimp In Lobster Sauce
With Pork Fried Rice
$4.95.....At New China, 8900 North 56th Street In Temple Terrace
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Tampa's Downtown Minute

Your Happy New Year starts in downtown Tampa. Watch to learn what's happening in downtown Tampa in January 2011. From Gasparilla festivities to Broadway musicals - there's something for everyone in downtown Tampa!

Kelly Benjamin Voices Support For Bicycling In Tampa

I grew up in Tampa risking my life riding my bike. I remember when HARTLINE first started the bikes on buses program and I eagerly waited in line to purchase my bike pass. During college, I mastered the art of defensive riding as I made the commute from my home in Ybor City to USF and back through suitcase city, Sulphur Springs, Seminole and Tampa Heights. I know bike riding in this city. I still ride my bike daily throughout the Heights.
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Ride to Honor the Fallen
"I actively promoted the ride, brought numerous people to it, and took part in the ride! I didn't see any other City Council candidates there.".......Kelly Benjamin

Tampa Bay ComicCon

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2011
10AM-4PM
DOUBLETREE HOTEL
4500 West Cypress Street, Tampa
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Leave Your Constitutional Rights On The Side Of The Road

"No Refusal" DUI Checkpoints Could Be Coming To Tampa
Florida is among several states now holding what are called "no refusal" checkpoints.
It means if you refuse a breath test during a traffic stop, a judge is on site, and issues a warrant that allows police to perform a mandatory blood test.

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The State Were In

The Top 10 Developments In Florida And Tampa Bay Politics In 2010
Willful ignorance, blatant hypocrisy, campaign mistakes ” it was all in a year’s work in the election year that was. Here are my observations of 10 key political developments that brought us to the state we’re in.
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Florida Named Weirdest State In America

Local Casualties Of War 2010

Marine Sgt. Daniel M. Angus - Army Spc. David A. Croft Jr.
Army Staff Sgt. John A. Reiners - Marine Cpl. Jonathan D. Porto
Army Sgt. Keith A. Coe - Army Sgt. David W. Thomas
Marine Lance Cpl. Nathaniel J. A. Schultz - Army Pfc. Paul O. Cuzzupe II
Army Spc. David A. Hess

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
- Adolph Hitler

Ybor Relative Gets A Treasure

Rafael Martinez-Ybor sits with a detailed document of the late 1800s holdings of his great-grandfather, Vicente Martinez-Ybor.
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Looking for Manatees

Finding Tampa

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Fried Shrimp
With Beef Fried Rice
$5.95.....At New China, 8900 North 56th Street In Temple Terrace
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2011 Be More Giving Award

Jamie Synn Of Tampa

I'm 27 years old and live in Tampa, Florida where I was born and raised. The thought of leaving the "Sunshine State" has never even crossed my mind.
Visit Her.....Here

Creative Loafing To Host Tampa Mayoral Debate

February 10, 2011
Ybor Square
1911 N. 13th St. In Ybor City
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First Night St. Pete

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Tampa Bay Bloggers

2010 Highlights

The feud between Tampa Bay's own Michael Hussey and The Godfather Kenneth Quinnell seems to be over, Hallelujah!

Tampa's fugitive monkey is running for mayor.

Local bloggers Litbrit, Madfloridian, Re/Creating Tampa, The Spencerian, Vox, Tiny Little Dots, Tampa Rail, Tommy in Seminole Heights, Deep Something, Bartlett Park,
Finding Tampa, The Campaign Manager, The Tampa Pirate, Tampa Taxi Shots continue to inform us all and we welcome our new member The SOG City Oracle.

Jim of The State of Sunshine we miss you.

And last but not least, Peter Schorsch of St. Petersblog makes us all proud!

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Breaded Pork Chops
With Black Beans And Rice
$4.99.......At The Gold Ring Cafe, Tampa St. And Columbus Dr. In Tampa
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Tampa's Nebraska Avenue

From Ybor City To The Hillsborough River
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The Last Winter
Starring Ron Perlman, James LeGros, Kevin Corrigan, Larry Fessenden And Connie Britton.

Great Si-Fi

Tampa Bay's Couch Homeless

A new way of measuring has produced a broader, bleaker look at homelessness in Tampa Bay. In 2011, new rules will affect the local counts in each county, which previously failed to capture many of the so-called couch homeless.
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