Asher Visits Tampa

Wonderful spending time with family.

Now, back to Vermont!

Chili cookoff in Ybor City raises money for Florida 4 Warriors

2022 Sydney Eastman Courage Award: Connie Burton

Connie deserves the Courage Award for her fearless truth telling. Her exposure of corruption in City Hall and among our CRA’s is vital to our community. She has long been a freedom fighter that the working people of Tampa need.

Chris Cano

Ron DeSantis declares Broward school board member-elect’s seat ‘vacant’ ahead of swearing-in

WMNF: Living Mirror Playback Theater Talk-Back and Improv Show

JANUARY 27, 2023 AT 7 PM – 9 PM 

WMNF

Matt Gaetz refuses to stand up or applaud for Democracy

Food Not Bombs West Palm Beach at Jose Marti Park

Shout out to amazing volunteers & Lake Worth FNB. Hot food, hot drinks, blankets, socks and sleeping bags, nobody left hungry. It’s bitter cold tonight in PBC, stay safe out there.

SUPPORT THEM HERE

Florida's Insane COVID Grand Jury Attacks Vaccines?

Suncoast NORML : The Heath Benefits of Medical Marijuana

Suncoast NORML

St. Pete Pier

Ybor City Notable Natives: Ferdie Pacheco

Fernando Pacheco was the personal physician and cornerman for world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali as well as numerous other boxing champions. He was born in Ybor City. more

St. Pete Firefighters deliver gifts to families affected by fires

George Pennington & the Odyssey in Ybor City

 

Crowbar - Ybor City

Marjorie Greene And Matt Gaetz Beef Gets HEATED

Tampa Cold Weather Shelters Open

Ron DeSantis Has A Major Flaw That Could DOOM A Presidential Run

Ybor Roger: Ybor City's Golden Age

Ybor City grew and prospered during the first decades of the 20th century. Thousands of residents built a community that combined Cuban, Spanish, Italian, and Jewish culture. "Ybor City is Tampa's Spanish India," observed a visitor to the area, "What a colorful, screaming, shrill, and turbulent world." more

The Twisted Indian - St. Pete

Ron Alnord Quartet in Seminole Heights

TODAY AT 9 PM Ella's Folk Cafe

Building the City Center at Hanna Ave: A Construction Update

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Carne con Papas

Yellow Rice and Corn

The Green Store - Ballast Point

Conservatives Turn On The Pillow Guy After Insane DeSantis Outburst On-Air

Better Strangers at Hooch & Hive

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023 AT 8 PM

Hooch and Hive - Tampa

Marijuana Use Creates Effeminate Men in Ybor City

The Harvest Food Pantry - Sarasota

Weekly Thursday Drive-Thru Distribution

3650 17th Street, Sarasota

My Pillow Guy Vows To Audit Ron DeSantis’s Re-Election Win In Florida

Republicans Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz refuse to stand or applaud for Ukrainan leader Zelensky

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Carne con Papas

With Black Beans and Rice

At The Green Store - Ballast Point

Matt Gaetz Flexed His Muscle And Got His Butt Kicked

Local Historian Ybor Roger - Ybor City Establishment

In the early 1880s, Tampa was an isolated village with a population of less than 1000 and a struggling economy. However, its combination of a good port, Henry Plant's new railroad line, and humid climate attracted the attention of Vicente Martinez Ybor, a prominent Spanish cigar manufacturer.

Ybor had moved his cigar-making operation from Cuba to Key West, Florida, in 1869, due to political turmoil in the then-Spanish colony. But, labor unrest and the lack of room for expansion had him looking for another base of operations, preferably in his own company town. MORE