Music For Manatees Benefit Concert

On November 22, you can be a part of the debut concert of the Tampa Bay Music Society (TBMS) at Spoto High School beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10. Spoto High School is located at 8538 Eagle Palm Dr. in Riverview. Proceeds from the debut concert will benefit the Florida Manatee and Aquatic Center at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo......more

Koch Bros. Beerfest In Miami

 

Of course, the Kochs themselves didn’t show up to cut checks to entertain their latest targets; that duty was left to the Koch-funded (and ironically named) Generation Opportunity, the youth-oriented outfit behind the Creepy Uncle Sam ads. They were of course aided by the University’s conservative.

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Brand GOP: Florida

Rachel Potter From Seminole

Awesome singer from Seminole is a finalist on the TV show X Factor.

She needs our votes.  

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Nan Rich for Governor

Haitian Women of Miami

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I Am Terry Kimple

Ybor Surveillance

Centro Ybor

HART’s ridership At Record High

HART reported all-time record ridership in October with nearly 1.4 million passenger trips, a 1.8 percent increase over the previous record set in October 2012, the Hillsborough County transit system said Monday.......more

homophobic Rubio

U.S. senator Marco Rubio of Florida is set to deliver the keynote address at an annual fund-raiser for the Florida Family Policy Council, an antigay group that counts a veritable who's who of right-wing, homophobic activists and pundits among its honorees.......more

Branded GOP -Hillsborough County

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At Gaspar's Patio in Temple Terrace

FreeElCritico: His Crime? His Music

The wife of a jailed Cuban rapper known for his vocal opposition to the Castro regime is calling on America’s music industry to stand by her husband, who is on the brink of death after 24 days on a hunger strike......more

The Launch Of The Sunshine State Clean Energy Coalition

The Sunshine State
should be a world leader in solar energy production. 

Instead, we're home to dirty and obsolete coal plants like
Duke Energy's Crystal River.

Launch of the Sunshine State Clean Energy Coalition, rally across from
Duke headquarters
WHEN: Wednesday, November 13, 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: Williams Park, directly across from Duke's offices at 299 1st Ave North, St Pete
Questions: Contact Julia Hathaway at julia.hathaway@sierraclub.org 

or call (727) 824-8813 ext. 309

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We Are GOP

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New/Old Local Blogger Is Back

Vox, who use to blog at Tampa's Backdoor Ways is back with a new blog.

Florida Cat Trap. check it out here

Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan

A political scientist at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and former Democratic operative, has filed to take on Republican state Sen. Jeff Brandes........more

Rick Scott's Florida

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Anti-Communist Rafael Cruz

The more we learn about Rafael Cruz, the more the existence of Ted Cruz begins to make sense. Rafael Cruz was born in 1939 in Matanzas, Cuba; at 14 years old he fought for Fidel Castro, though he later claimed he “didn’t know Castro was a Communist.” After Castro’s regime turned bad, Rafael disowned his former leader, left for Texas to become a mathematician, and later instilled a seething hatred of anything remotely Communist into Ted Cruz.....more

No New District

Hispanics who spent years pushing for a Hillsborough County Commission district that would enable them to elect one of their own thought that was finally going to happen Wednesday. But commissioners rejected the idea, refusing in a largely partisan vote to put the issue on the 2014 ballot. Commissioners voting in opposition, Victor Crist, Sandra Murman, Ken Hagan and Al Higginbotham all republicans. Mark (The next politico to leave the GOP.) Sharpe joined Democrats Les Miller and Kevin Beckner in backing the proposal........more 

I Am Al Higginbotham

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Charlie Crist's History of Leaning Left

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Jacksonville Tells School Board: “No KKK High School"

About 30 residents of Jacksonville rallied and spoke out at a Duval County School Board meeting on Nov. 5 in favor of changing the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High. Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Imperial Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and members of the Jacksonville Progressive Coalition (JPC) have been gathering community support to change the name.....more

The Stogie Party

Coming 2014

WMNFs 4th Annual Little Manatee River Jam

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Florida Tea Party Republican Ted Yoho Wants To Impeach Eric Holder

A group of House Republicans plan an effort to oust Attorney General Eric Holder by year's end, Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) told the Gainesville Sun. “It’s to get him out of office -- impeachment,” said Yoho, who was a large-animal veterinarian before winning election last year. “It will probably be when we get back in [Washington]. It will be before the end of the year......more

Where The Hell Did Florida Go?

If all of the ice in the world melted, sea levels would raise some 216 feet. But what exactly would that look like? And more specifically, what would such a worse-case scenario mean for the Earth’s population? National Geographic has created a fascinating visual representation of this thought experiment and provided an analysis of how each continent would be affected by such a catastrophic change........more
What Florida might look like in the near future.
Florida 2073

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Local artist Cristina Fernandez with fans at The Pegasus Lounge in Tampa

GOP: The Party of ‘Not Racist’

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Democrats Force Jessica Ehrlich Out

Jessica Ehrlich is out of the race to replace the late Rep. Bill Young.

"This morning I am officially announcing that I am suspending my campaign for Congress," she wrote in a statement distributed by the Florida Democratic Party.......more