Friday, June 8, 2012
Lisa Marzilli: Off the streets and in recovery
With no fanfare and barely a mention in the local news, the Hillsborough County Commission gave its blessing and a tidy sum of cash last month to a pilot project that could actually do something to solve the growing problem of homelessness.
here
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Florida Tops In Public Corruption
West Palm Beach #4 and Fort Lauderale #7.
here
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Stop Illegally Purging Florida Voters
We have to stop Governor Scott today—he is embarrassing Florida and corrupting the electoral process. His reckless acts have local and national implications. So let's ring his office's phones off the hook until he stops his racially-targeted attack on voting rights.
Will you call Scott right now? Tell him, "Stop illegally purging Florida voters."
Here's where to call. Rick Scott: (850) 488-7146
Monday, June 4, 2012
The 2001 Odyssey Hopes To Entice RNC Patrons
The 2001 Odyssey strip club in Tampa, Florida has revamped its online marketing strategy in hopes of attracting some of the nearly 50,000 people expected to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention.
here
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Protest RNC
Wear what’s on your mind. And do it in style. Check out our latest protest gear!
Get ready for August. And tell your friends!
here
Yuengling To Build New Brewhouse in Tampa
Yuengling announced Thursday that construction has begun
on a new brew house in Tampa.
here
Yummy! Stogie's Favorite.
Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer
here
Hillsborough County Unveils New Website
here
Friday, June 1, 2012
Occupy St. Pete Seniors Endure The Rain To Protest
It’s been less than a month since Bank of America’s annual shareholders meeting and protesters say they haven’t made any changes to benefit their customers. So members of the Occupy movement called for people to “Move Your Money”
at a rally in downtown St. Pete.
here
Humane Society of Tampa Bay
Positively Tampa Bay: Local business man Bob Reina of Talk Fusion
donates more than $1 million to Humane Society.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn is targeting with that .50 caliber machine gun.
Leave your answers here.
Sign The Petition
Here we go again. They did it for George W. Bush in 2000, and now the Republicans are working to steal the 2012 Presidential election for Mitt Romney in Florida.
It's straight out of Katherine Harris' playbook. Florida Governor Rick Scott is currently deploying a massive and systematic effort to purge up to 182,000 Floridians who are likely Democratic voters from the state's voting rolls.
more
Welcome to VoteForEddie.com
I am VoteForEddie.Com an Independent candidate for U.S. House of Representatives District 25 in South Florida. I am running on a platform of "New Energy, New Ideas". My main issue is securing energy independence through a renewable energy only initiative.
Vote For Eddie
He is running against Right Winger and enemy of the Cuban people Mario Diaz Balart.
Edward Condry, Jr., Of Fort Meyers
Tampa Police arrested a Lee County man Tuesday morning for child neglect after he left his toddler unattended in a car while visiting a Tampa strip club.
here
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Florida Seniors Lobby for Legal Marijuana
Robert Platshorn served nearly 30 years in prison on federal drug charges. Since getting out four years ago, he's been promoting medical marijuana use to seniors in Florida.
What Stogie Had For Lunch
With Fries and Rice
$5.00 At Dino's Drive In in Winter Haven
Eat Local!
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
St. Pete PD A Paramilitary Organization
Management at the St. Pete PD will tell you they are a paramilitary organization. They follow command protocol. The rules are the law and they follow the rules.
here
A Pro - Obama Veteran
here
Monday, May 28, 2012
20,000 Political Prisoners Arrested in Tampa
Like the other 19,999 prisoners that were rounded up and taken away, I had no idea what hit me until the moment the trap was sprung and I certainly had no idea that I had unwillingly participated in helping the government round up thousands of my fellow Domestic Belligerents…until it was too late.
here
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
President Obama and the Fight for LGBT Rights
Glee star Jane Lynch narrates this documentary about LGBT rights in America. The video features a candid interview with President Obama, who speaks about the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, why he supports marriage equality, and what's at stake for the LGBT community in this election.
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Something Yummy
At The Yummy House, 2620 E. Hillsborough Avenue, Tampa
Eat Local!
Rick Scott's Florida Unemployment Reform Shortchanges The Jobless
Two legal groups want the federal government to investigate Florida's treatment of jobless workers following reforms that made the Sunshine State's unemployment insurance program the stingiest in the nation.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Florida Governor Purges Voters From Voting Rolls
Governor Rick Scott is questioning the eligibility of the thousands of Florida voters, but his methods are being questioned by officials on both sides of the aisle.
Cuban Sandwich Showdown: Miami or Tampa?
Tampa can lay claim to the original Cuban Sandwich, but with a population of more than 1 million cuban residents, Miami believes it deserves to be considered the Cuban Sandwich Capital. You be the judge as we feature a Cuban Sandwich Showdown between Versailles restaurant of Miami and The Columbia in Ybor City.
The End of Florida Progressive Coalition?
Two major problems were identified. One, that people didn’t have enough information about state and local politics. The media did a poor job of covering it and since state politics was drastically different from national politics, most of us, me included, didn’t have enough inherent knowledge about how things worked. In order to do a good job of covering Florida politics, bloggers needed to increase their knowledge of the players in the system, the rules of the system and the issues important to the state. A second major problem was that there wasn’t much money being put into covering politics, be it the media or blogging, and without some kind of influx of cash into the system, few, if any people, would be able to devote enough time to learning about the system to do it justice.
More than six years later, these problems have never been solved. Media coverage of state and local politics is much worse now than it was then. And because of silly laws like term limits, the system is so frequently changing that I’ve found, personally, that my knowledge of state politics is actually getting worse. And I don’t have the time or resources to fix that problem. Few state-level bloggers in the country have found models of funding that allow them to devote serious time to state and local politics. The overwhelming majority of bloggers from the 50 states that were invited to a state-level blogger summit in 2007 are no longer blogging about state politics. Only a few blogs that cover state and local politics can pay their bills, much less pay salaries to their writers.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t solve either of these problems. I’ve tried numerous different approaches to it and none of them have worked. Some of that is the difficulty of the problems, which are widespread across the country at the state level. Some of it is because of my own personal failings. Since 2009, I’ve been divided among numerous projects and have never been able to devote the time to FPC that I need to, usually because paying gigs have to take priority. And because other FPC writers also have to have paying gigs and I never found a way to pay them or a way to inspire them to work extensively for FPC for free (except for a few people over the years for periods of time), FPC never became what it could’ve been and what it needed to be. And I see no way that is going to change.
On top of that, one of the key reasons, as I mentioned above, that I moved my focus to state politics was that my voice wasn’t adding to the national conversation. Now that I have been writing for Crooks and Liars on labor issues (and other topics) for nearly nine months, that’s not true any more. Thousands of people read my national writing each week and I regularly see my posts get picked up by other blogs and websites. And there are only a few national bloggers focused on labor issues. And there are a lot more labor stories that we need to cover than are currently covered. And labor issues are truly one of the key battlegrounds in American politics these days and one of the most important battles we have to win. So, I have decided that I am ending my time as executive director of Florida Progressive Coalition and, barring someone else stepping up to take over, the blog will end. I’m not going to take the site down, but I won’t be publishing any future content.
I’m willing to entertain offers from others if they are interested in taking over and maintaining FPC in whatever way they see fit and I’m certainly hoping that someone will pick up on the wiki and continue to add content to it, since it is a valuable resource for Floridians. One thing I know is that I can’t do it anymore and I have to shift my time and efforts more fully to the battles that I know more about and I have more of a chance to successfully pursue. FPC no longer fits that description. The last things I will post here will be the continuation of the 2012 Florida Netroots Awards, and after that I will entertain offers to take that over, too. It’s been a great few years and I’ve learned more than I ever expected and met more great people than I could’ve imagined, but it’s time to move on to other projects.
What Stogie Had For Lunch
With Collard Greens Soup and Rice
$7.95 At Arco- Iris, in West Tampa
Eat Local!
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
St. Pete Dems Picnic
War Veterans Memorial Park
9600 Bay Pines Boulevard, St. Pete
All you can eat for just $10. Veterans eat for free!
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Florida School Sets World Record For Recycling
here
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