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Expect Delays
Hillsborough County took a baby step Wednesday toward placing
a transit tax proposal on the ballot in 2010........here

Howard Dean Calls Students To Action

Howard Dean doesn’t want young voters to become complacent with politics. “It seems like you already hit your peak electing Barack Obama as president,” Dean said.
“Now, don’t blow it.”........Howard Dean

Davis Islands Trail

Bids for construction of the Davis Islands all-purpose neighborhood trail are due Dec. 1, putting the long-awaited city project on schedule to open sometime next year..........here

The Michelle Bachmann Invitational Teabagging Freedom Chant Fest

In St. Petersburg
A couple of hours ago, a chorus of beeping horns and argumentative shouting emanating from the street below penetrated my apartment building's 80+ -year-old concrete-and-steel walls and made it difficult to concentrate on the letter I was trying to write.........here

A Pasco County Intellectual

In Wesley Chapel

Vote For The 13th Juror!

In The Orlando Blog Awards, The Orbbies
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Celebrate The Success Of Mayor Rick Baker

Shindig will be held at Williams Park this Saturday.
Ticket prices are between $125 and $10,000 and include beer and wine.
here
Presumably, the homeless who spend their days at Williams park (and are regularly harassed for having open containers there) will not be invited to attend. Just so the homeless don't feel too spat on by their city, we will have our own "shindig" at Williams Park inviting the homeless.......here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Bacalao
With Moro And Yuca
$5.95......At Rosa's, On MLK In Drew Park, Tampa
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WMNF: Tornado Rider

At Skipper's Smokehouse
Thursday Nov 5 8:00PM
here
These Guys Are Awesome!

Tampa Taxi Shots Is Four Years Old!

I started this blog on November 4th, 2005. It has now been four years.
here
Congratulations Tim!

RNC Chairman Steele Lauds Bill Foster Win

I would like to congratulate Bill Foster

On his election to serve as mayor of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg has also been fortunate to have Rick Baker serve with distinction for eight years and I have no doubt that Bill will build upon what Rick has already accomplished".........Michael Steele

Spiffs International Folk Festival 2009 in St. Petersburg

Congratulations Steve Kornell

Victory Fund-endorsed candidate Steve Kornell has won his groundbreaking race for a seat on the St. Petersburg City Council.......here

Roser Park Art Festival

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Is Guavaween Dead?

After getting crowds as big as 175,000, Tampa Police estimate less than 15,000 revelers showed up in Ybor City on Saturday night, and just about everyone in the neighborhood was bored.......here

Welcome To Tampa

Expect Delays

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Picadillo
With Moro And Mixed Veggies
$5.95.....At Palm River Cafe, 7754 Palm River Rd, Tampa

How Much Was Your Last Value Meal?

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Friends Of Stogie

Cube Of The Awesome Site
Cube's Place

Kids Jackolantern Carving at the Garden!

Halloween was about pumpkin carving, bobbing for apples and costumes at the Bartlett Park Commuity Garden this past Saturday, October 31st.......here

Green Bay Packers Fans Suck

Packers fans welcome Favre with boos
A Bunch Of Ungrateful Cheeseheads
After All He Did For Them!

Dr. Howard Dean, Gingrich Debate Health Care

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich presented their opinions on health care Wednesday night during a debate at Southeast Missouri State University.......here
Who Cares What Newt Gingrich Has To Say!

Litbrit: Five Wild Things

First and foremost, I am compelled to say that Where the Wild Things Are, which I watched through a membrane of memory and tears, is a masterpiece....Deborah Newell Tornello
And So Is Litbrit!

Rick Baker's Legacy

The St. Petersburg Homeless
Homelessness is a growing problem that Mayor Rick Baker will be leaving to the next mayor. Here, the homeless bed down in front of City Hall recently.
here

Tommy in Seminole Heights

Tampa's 16th Annual Independents' Film Festival

The festival, which runs Nov. 5 to 14, showcases films produced by local, state and regional filmmakers as well as high school and college students.......here

Independents' Film Festival

"Light up the Night" Cigar Block Party

"Light up the Night" with Tampa Sweethearts Cigar Co. and Cigar City Magazine

7 to 11 p.m. Nov. 20 at Tampa Firefighters Museum

See the Firefighters Museum and enjoy food, wine, rum and beer with heavy hors doeuvres,
Proceeds to benefit the Tampa Firefighters Museum and Cigar Family Charitable Found.
here

Tampa Greens Meeting

4-5 pm On The Last Sunday Of Every Month At Cafe Hey.
1540 N. Franklin St. in Tampa.

Contact Jennifer Sullivan at greencat9@juno.com or call (352) 683-3151 for information on all the Green Party meetings throughout the Tampa Bay area.

Ybor City Christmas Photo Session

Christmas photo sessions have begun. This past Sunday, we took the beautiful Abby out for a teen photo shoot in Ybor City. She flew into visit her aunt and she was surprised with a photo shoot as her Christmas present. Here are a few of our favorites from the session. We have just a few more sessions available for Christmas, so please email us if you are wanting photos for Christmas.......here

What's Haunting Ybor City?

Sometimes the things going bump late at night in Ybor City aren’t emanating from bass thumping cars cruising Seventh Avenue. And sometimes the pale figures floating through the district aren’t on their way to nightclubs.......here

Fans Of Stogie

In Clearwater

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Roast Beef

With Red Beans And Rice

$5.95.......At Rosa's On MLK In Drew Park, Tampa

How Much Was Your Last Value Meal?

Eat Local!

Welcome To Tampa

Expect Delays

Urban Corridor Tampa Magazine

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A View Of Education From The Right By Carol

Carol is very much a voice from the right. She’s a fan of Instapundit, Michelle Malkin, Redstate, and the right side of the political blogosphere. She is no fan of Obama, climate change True Believers, liberal media, or RINOs. In short, she is my ideological opposite........here

Arcadia Shines For Obama

On A Former Cattle Pasture North Of Arcadia

Obama commissioned the largest photovoltaic solar array in the United States........here

The Tampa Bay Derby Darlins Are At It Again!

The girls and other volunteers will be planting 72 Florida native trees. If you would like to help the girls and volunteer this Halloween, the planting will take place at 10 am this Saturday, October 31st, at 78th Street and Bullard Parkway in Temple Terrace.......here

Influential African Americans in Tampa

Eliabeth Liz Straight
Is currently the host of a weekly poetry radio show titled “Poetry Is,” broadcast weekly on WMNF, 88. 5 FM, out of Tampa, FL and on the web at WMNF. org. She was WMNF’s Programmer of the Year for 2006.......here

Daineli's Awesome Party

Roast Pig, Open Bar, DJ And Dance Instructor

Why The Left Must Now Confront The Democratic Party

Forget the Republican Party, we all know how utterly depraved it has become. What troubles me far more is the extent to which the Democratic Party has become a tool of the giant corporations that use public policy as a profit enhancement business strategy (so revealed by this year’s health “reform” charade), and the Pentagon-industrial and right wing foundation foreign policy establishment on a militaristic rampage throughout much of the world........here

Homes With A View

In Gibsonton

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Steak Parmesan
With Yellow Rice And Green Beans
$6.95.....At Pipos In Town n' Country

How Much Was Your Last Value Meal?

Eat Local!

John Dingfelder Wants To End Gasparilla Beer Sales

At a workshop last week, city officials and organizers of Tampa's annual Gasparilla parade pledged to come down hard on underage drinkers and inappropriate, drunken behavior. But council member

John Dingfelder, a candidate for the Hillsborough County Commission, wants to take it even further.......here

Yuengling, Stogie's Favorite. Drink Local

America's Safest Cities: Tampa Bay #28

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Brand Tampa Anniversary Party!

In Ybor City
We’ve been online for a year now and it’s time to take the party offline.
here

Alex Pickett: Routes Music

For the next month, I’ll be working on a music documentary with my friends Philip Bardi and Terrence Duncan. Routes Music is a documentary film acting as a roving music census, taking in the true musical passions (and disgusts) of folks like you and me, and folks like him and her, all across a place we like to call America........here

The Recycled Yard Art Contest

Rewards the magical transformation of junk into art. The contest that will be held during the Hillsborough County Fair from November 4 to November 8 is open to all Hillsborough County residents,
whether young or old........here

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

How Much Was Your Last Value Meal?
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