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.
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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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Stogie Recommends

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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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd

A Case Of Excessive Ego In The First Degree
This just in! Stop the presses! Get me rewrite, baby! Grady Judd has just announced he had Cheerios for breakfast this morning! Grady Judd has also proclaimed he plans to have a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch and as for dinner, stand by — a press conference will be forthcoming.
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Valencia Garden Restaurant

The End Of A Tampa Institution.

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Richard

He Is 70 Years Old. He Is From Ohio, But Now Lives On The Streets Of Tampa.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Gyro
With Fries
$3.99.......At The Gas Station, 50th Street And Busch Blvd.
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In Tampa

Tampa Community Focuses On Energy Efficiency

An affordable townhome community planned for Tampa is expected to be one of the first in the nation to achieve a top-tier rating for energy efficiency, reducing usage by more than 45 percent. The 57-home Westshore Landings One, expected to be complete in 2010, is a joint effort between TECO Energy’s Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas in cooperation with the Westshore Community Development Corp.
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Ivory Mandarin Bistro In Dunedin

Ivory Mandarin Bistro

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Daniel Powers: Ybor City, Florida

Wanderlust

Happy Jesus Christ Day

"Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas (stuff) got involved, this holiday was enshrined to commemorate a guy who got nailed to a tree for daring to tell people to be kind to one another. If you have two cloaks, He said, give one away. Remember those who have less than you, be charitable, be good, be merciful."......William Rivers Pitt

Via....Michael Moore

Pirates Cove: Homeless In Paradise

DO NOT ENTER!!!
Danger!! Stop Now! or else. Thank you" reads a sign aimed at visitors who venture down a wooded path, through pines and palmetto, to a clearing behind a drugstore and a busy intersection. The path leads to Pirates Cove, where, in a circle of tents and tarps, a few members of Southwest Florida's growing homeless population try to survive the downturn in an outdoor existence reminiscent of pioneer life.
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Is Dick Greco A Democrat?

During the past year, Greco has been quietly building a coalition of business, civic and political allies to back his bid, including GOP fundraiser and longtime friend Al Austin, philanthropist and businessman David Straz and John Sykes of Sykes Enterprises.

To run his campaign, Greco, a Democrat(?) who has supported Republicans, including Jeb Bush and George W. Bush, has also enlisted entrenched Republicans, presumably to siphon potential votes from Rose Ferlita, the only Republican in the nonpartisan race.

They include former state Rep. Trey Travesia, a conservative known for his anti-abortion stance, and Cameron Ross, who served as a campaign manager for Mike Prendergast, who lost a bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, in the Nov. 2 elections. Greg Truax, a Tampa-based Republican activist who worked on former Gov. Charlie Crist’s gubernatorial and congressional bids, is also working on Greco’s campaign.
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Kelly Benjamin For Tampa City Council

Today, the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections office validated a portion of the over 1000 petition signatures needed to nominate my name to appear on the ballot for the Tampa City Council, District 6. I could not have done this without the hard work and selfless dedication of several residents in District 6 who envision a new future and improved representation on the Tampa City Council.
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Vote Kelly

Happy Holidays From Mary Mulhern

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Bess The Book Bus In Tampa

Bess the Book Bus

America's Worst Bosses

Tampa's Casanova Kevin White #25
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Retro Love Session – Ybor City

Kerri McConnell Photography

Villages For The Homeless

Today on BBC World Update, which will also be aired on NPR, Dan Damon presents a program on homelessness, which includes a segment on the proposed Tiger Bay Village, a pedestrian village for the homeless that would consolidate most of the two dozen homeless agencies in Volusia and Flagler counties and provide a permanent solution to adult homelessness. The county-owned land, already zoned for group homes, is next to an existing drug rehab center.

Michael E. Arth has donated his design services. An engineering firm has offered to do the civil engineering for free, and one person has offered to donate her entire estate for its funding.
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Tampa Bay Homeless

University of Tampa

Hillsborough County’s Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service

Susan Ketterer lights a candle while Niyoka Zeigler recites one of the names of homeless men and women who died in 2010 during the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County’s Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service on Tuesday at Joe Chillura Courthouse Square.
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88.5 WMNF Releases New Schedule

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Octopus Ceviche
$4.95.....At El Oso Blanco, 3611 West Hillsborough Avenue, Tampa
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Serf Living In Tampa

How Much Is Your Backyard Worth?

Friends Of Stogie

In Tampa

Americans Need Help

Yet We Get This....
Waste and fraud in US efforts to rebuild Afghanistan while fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban may have cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
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Why is it ok to squander our money on wars, but we can't help our own people? Oh wait, that would make us socialist.

A Divided Federal Communications Commission

Net Neutrality
The FCC's three Democrats voted to pass the rules,
while the two Republicans opposed them.
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Wow, What A Surprise!

Local Artist Dante Hadley

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Florida Keys Scuba Diving Santa

Lepcurious Winter in Tampa

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Tampa's Mystery Monkey For Mayor

I’m a life-long primate who believes that the citizens of Tampa need to swing free of the norm and vote for orangachange in 2011. That’s why I am running for Mayor.
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Forget The Monkey, Stogie Recommends Ed Turanchik.

Spotlight Tampa - Bike Safety

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Palomilla Steak
With Fried Rice And Platanos
$8.50.....At Arco-Ires Restaurant, 3328 West Columbus Drive, Tampa
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Friends Of Stogie

In Tampa