I know, I know. I can hear it as I type these words: how dare I call last Saturday’s event a sham. Those who attended will tell you it was a beautiful demonstration of … well, something. I’m not sure what. I know that everyone there seemed pretty passionate about stopping drilling off Florida’s coast......here
"A well-placed source in California told WMR that the California Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) has been briefed by its counterpart agencies in the Gulf coast states that there are plans to conduct a mass evacuation of millions of Gulf coast residents due to the catastrophic environmental and public health effects of the BP oil disaster......here
Karla Price of the city of Tampa reports that the trail connecting Cypress Street with the Courtney Campbell Causeway and then Skyway Park is officially open......here
Most bicyclists talk about making bicycling more popular and getting people on bikes.
I have said it before, and I’ll likely say it again: Ybor City’s Market on 7th has the best pizza I have ever put in my pizza hole. It even photographs real purty.
Based out of Spring Hill, Moore ran for Congress in 2002 and 2004, ran against U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2006 and, in 2008, was the presidential nominee of the Socialist Party. Calling himself “more liberal, more progressive, more left-leaning” than Sink.
John Travolta is thanking his hometown in central Florida after residents lobbied in an online campaign to bring the "Grease Sing-A-Long" to the area. The 1978 classic is being re released in select theaters nationwide, but Ocala wasn't one of them. So residents rushed an online poll that allowed the city with the most voting fans to bring the film to them. Ocala surfaced as No. 1 in the poll, leading by hundreds of votes......here
Put on your walking shoes for YBOR ArtWalk! This self-guided tour of Ybor City’s artistic spaces is held the FIRST Saturday of every month from 12:00 noon to 6 p.m.......here
and shouldn’t we be mad as Hell that our beaches may be destroyed forever ?!
Three environmental groups on Tuesday filed formal notice of their intention to sue BP, the Coast Guard and a string of federal agencies involved in the cleanup. They contend the practice of corralling and torching oil at sea was being conducted without first adequately checking for turtles and likely claiming hundreds of them, including endangered Kemp's ridleys........here
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Vincente Martinez-Ybor, a wealthy Spanish cigar manufacturer from New York and Key West, began development of Ybor City in 1885.
A political realist would probably not give me a very good chance of winning, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the corporately controlled, two-party system is no longer even remotely capable of addressing the needs of American citizens......here
Ybor City, founded in the 1880’s, with its accessible port, and railway locations it attracted the attention of prominent Spanish born cigar manufacturer Vicente Martinez Ybor......here
This past Saturday during the Tampa Bay Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game, a 10-year-old boy was seen drinking a beer in the stands. Allegedly the beer was purchased by the adult sitting next to him and the kid chugged it down within ten minutes......here
I've always been against offshore oil drilling. Florida is the Sunshine State. We should have solar energy as well as wind and wave energy programs. Just the risk of the oil slick coming ashore is already a disaster.
The gulf oil spill is bad but it could become much, much worse and soon. The threat is a hurricane moving over the spill. If a hurricane’s violent winds track over the spill, we could witness a natural and economic calamity that history has never recorded anywhere or anytime. We will literally be in oil-soaked waters. We will have witnessed the first oilicane......here
Opened in 1924, The Old People's Home was the largest publicly supported home for the elderly in Tampa and represented a major civic achievement......here
There are plenty of things that Tampa is famous for, but it’s very hard to get away from one of its greatest claims to fame, and contributions to world culture, the cigar......here
Recent data points to a surge in Florida of so-called “staged accidents,” incidents where criminals fake a no-fault accident to collect insurance money. The NICB found that while South Florida remains a hot spot for the crime, operations have expanded northward to Tampa, which has become the activity’s epicenter with 487 questionable accidents that appear staged last year, a 290% increase......here
A worker getting off late in downtown Tampa saw a bipedal animal swimming under the Kennedy Bridge. The creatures body was covered with hair and he was eating crabs on the rocks below. When the man got close, the animal swam off at a very high rate of speed north up the Hillsborough River......here
A film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The screenplay by Susannah Grant is based on the book, The Soloist by Steve Lopez. The film is based on a true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who develops schizophrenia and becomes homeless.
Celebrate the Fourth of July with either an 11- or 24-mile bike ride. Leaves Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park at 8 AM. It's free and an easy ride of 12-14 mph.
FEMA has plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area in the event of a controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or if wind or other conditions are expected to take toxic fumes through Tampa Bay......here
“Everyone knows what’s being smoked out of these pipes; the only ones who claim they don’t know are the sellers of these pipes.”.......Rep. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Pete
Circuit Judge Chet A. Tharpe
I’m coming very, very late to this game, but let me put my two cents in as regards the Meek-Rubio-Crist matchup. Specifically, the question of what might happen down the road as Crist seems to be hovering up an awful lot of Democratic support that might otherwise have gone to Meek......here
BP set up a claims office in Clearwater over the weekend, its first in the Tampa Bay area. The storefront at 2551 Drew St. is the oil giant's 12th claims office in Florida and one of 35 in states affected by the oil spill........here
Do you live in an area that is being affected by the oil spill? Do you have photo or video of what's happening on the coastlines? We want to see your on-the-ground photos. 
As the Gulf oil spill crisis enters its fourth week, independent scientists estimate that the volume of this spill in one week matches that of the 1969 Exxon Valdez disaster, making the Gulf spill by far the worst such disaster in U.S. history......here
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Carl Gallups - Hickory Hammock Baptist Church - Milton, Florida
