Thursday, February 14, 2013
Tell Rep. Castor: Help Rep. Alan Grayson and Rep. Mark Takano
take Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits off the chopping block.
Over the next few weeks, we'll be in the fight of our lives to save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits. House Democrats can help take these programs off the chopping block by co-signing a letter written by progressive champions Rep. Alan Grayson and Rep. Mark Takano that draws a line in the sand on benefit cuts.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tampa Theatre will screen Oscar-nominated short films
The Tampa Theatre is offering audiences a chance to see the 10 short films that will be vying for Oscar statuettes at the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 24.
Free The Vote, Awake The State Rally
Voting should be fair and accessible for all. But ask 102-year-old Desiline Victor, who waited three hours to vote at her precinct in North Miami if Florida’s elections are fair and accessible. She’ll likely tell you “no.” It’s time to eliminate the unnecessary barriers imposed by Gov. Rick Scott and his legislative allies that prevented an estimated 201,000 Floridians from casting a ballot in 20121. Enough already. Ms. Victor joined First Lady Michelle Obama at last night’s State of the Union address to lend her voice to the call to fix Florida’s broken elections. Will you join us at a rally on March 5th during Gov. Scott’s State of the State address to lend your voice to this rising chorus?
Sign up for a Free The Vote, Awake The State rally near you today, or organize one in your community.
Gaslight Park, Downtown Tampa
410 N. Franklin Street, Tampa
Sen. Jeff Brandes' District OfficeGaslight Park, Downtown Tampa
410 N. Franklin Street, Tampa
3637 4th Street North, St. Petersburg
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Mary Mulhern at Mise en Place
Mary Mulhern for Hillsborough County
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Mise en Place
442 W. Kennedy Blvd.. Tampa
Suggested minimum contribution $25, maximum $500
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Mise en Place
442 W. Kennedy Blvd.. Tampa
Suggested minimum contribution $25, maximum $500
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Connect Tampa Bay
Connect Tampa Bay, a new transportation education and advocacy organization, was launched Tuesday. Connect Tampa Bay will engage citizens across Tampa Bay who want to invest in more viable transportation options to improve economic development and quality of life. "Connect Tampa Bay aims to bring people together to understand the challenges we face from the lack of transportation options and advocate for solutions from the bottom up."
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The State Of The Tampa Bay Blogosphere
Still Going Strong
Madfloridian - Litbrit - Tampa Do-Gooder - Tiny Little Dots
St. Petersblog - The Spencerian - SOG City Oracle - Finding Tampa
Bartlett Park - Pushing Rope - R/CT - Alan Snel - Clark Brooks
The Ybor City Stogie
The Ybor City Stogie
We Miss You
The State Of Sunshine - Out In Left Field - Tampa Backdoor WaysDeep Something
When Something Isn't Working - Try Something Else
Fla GOP's breath-taking hubris and entitlement hardly limited to Jim Greer
The whole sorry story of the Florida Republican Party under Jim Greer is exhibit A on how near-absolute power, combined with astronomical campaign accounts, can and did breed breathtaking arrogance and entitlement, if not outright corruption, among party leaders professing conservatism.
Traffic tickets, fraud probes deaths — and state Rep. Daphne Campbell
She’s a Democratic state representative who has another way to deal with future red-light tickets: file legislation to ban the traffic-surveillance cameras that shot video of her husband’s Honda Odyssey breaking traffic laws.here
Stogie likes this party. Florida Greens
Monday, February 11, 2013
Florida Man Nation’s Worst Superhero
You know all those stranger-than-fiction news headlines detailing the bizarre exploits of someone identified only as "Florida man"? Imagine that all of those headlines referred to a single person, and that this person is superhero who causes mayhem wherever he goes.
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
ONE BILLION RISING Campaign
THE INVISIBLE WAR
A groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Wednesday, Feb. 13 @ 7:00pm. Free
The L Train, 900 Central Ave, St. Petersburg
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Sweetbay Closings And Charities
Tampa Bay area organizations that assist the homeless and impoverished had come to depend on Sweetbay's donations of thousands of pounds of expiring produce, meats and baked goods from neighborhood stores.
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The Bass Pro Giveaway
14 people spoke against a proposal by the Hillsborough County Commission to dole out more than $6 million to a land developer for road improvements around a proposed Bass Pro Shops.
Local Views: The Cuban Advantage
Let me get this straight. Marco Rubio, current darling of the Republican Party, is going to be an authority on immigration? Isn't it a little ironic? As a son of Cuban immigrants, Cubans only need get to our shores and are granted full "amnesty." No evidence of moral character (whatever that means); no English as first language.We should start by addressing this arcane and unfair favoritism.
Leslie Sisto, St. Petersburg
Friday, February 8, 2013
Tampa Bay Rays
We Have No Money Over Here
Stay at the Trop where you belong. Ken Hagan will be out of a job soon and won't be able to help you. We are not Miami-Dade or Arlington, Texas. If you get it on the ballot it will be defeated.
Get Well Mindy
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Higginbotham, Hagan, Murman, and Crist
The goal, is for Hillsborough County to “stop embarrassing us, and embarrassing itself.
“To stop a bully is really easy. But silence to a bully is encouragement. And right now there are too many people who feel the way we do, who are very silently shaking their head at the County Commission.
“To stop a bully is really easy. But silence to a bully is encouragement. And right now there are too many people who feel the way we do, who are very silently shaking their head at the County Commission.
And we need them to be vocal and visible.”
Those were the words of Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, speaking at a town hall meeting in Ybor on Tuesday night. The meeting was a response to the controversial 4-3 vote last month by the Hillsborough County Commission, rejecting creation of a domestic partner registry.
Those were the words of Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, speaking at a town hall meeting in Ybor on Tuesday night. The meeting was a response to the controversial 4-3 vote last month by the Hillsborough County Commission, rejecting creation of a domestic partner registry.
The Fix and the Best of Florida
Cillizza and the team from The Fix are back again, and they want nominations for best state political blogs:
Now, I certainly wouldn't complain if some generous reader out there wanted to nominate The Spencerian. It would be a genuine honor, and I would be grateful. However, there are a lot of great blogs in this state, and I think they and their writers (and readers, for that matter) deserve a shot. So I am asking you think about other Florida blogs first. Go ahead.You can do it.
Ashley Judd for Kentucky
A Hollywood Liberal?
Or This Guy? remember This?
Mitch McConnell: Top Priority, Make Obama a One Term President.
Karl Rove (This guy is still in business?) must be worried.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Sue Carlton: Tampa is not such a bad city after all
At last, someone who gets us.
Like me, maybe you found yourself a little irked at how Tampa was portrayed nationally as the Bayshore backdrop to a scandal that took down a CIA director. If you too were a tad offended by jokes of us being Jacksonville south, and also hotter and uglier than the surface of the moon, take heart. Sunday, February 3, 2013
The Tampa Personal Chef
My name is Cristian Feher, I am the head chef at Tampa Bay Chef Services here in sunny Florida.
I love to write about food and invite you to visit my blog!
I love to write about food and invite you to visit my blog!
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Hot Cuban
I stopped at Excel Food and Fuel at Bay and S. Dale Mabry in Tampa last week and had some great tacos. I came back to try a Cuban.
Tampa Receives Federal Grant for Transit
Tampa was awarded $234,281 from the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Innovative Transit Workforce Development Program to implement "Meeting Today's and Tomorrow's Job Needs in Mass Transit," a recruitment and training partnership between the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc. (CDC of Tampa) and HART.
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary
Needs A Miracle
Opened in 1971, the haven is not accepting any new sick or injured birds for rehabilitation because of financial problems. While it is unclear if the sanctuary is closing, a board member says it will take a miracle to save it.
LegiCamp 2013
Florida Progressives
Orlando City Hall
400 South Orange Av
Saturday, February 9, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
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400 South Orange Av
Saturday, February 9, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Melissa PersoniusTampa's Honey Trapper
Tampa Police Department says Sergeant was 'manipulated.
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Only In Tampa!
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Help WMNF
A great way to uphold WMNF year after year without worrying about whether you are a current member is to join the Circle of Friends! For as little as five dollars a month, you can keep WMNF going without stopping your contributions unless you want. If you wish, you can increase your Circle of Friends membership by using a debit/credit card. Just
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Local Views: A vote for regression, intolerance
I recently moved to Hillsborough County and have spent the better part of the last year bragging to friends and family about how proud I am of my new home.That pride was shattered by the Hillsborough County Commission's rejection last week of a domestic partnership registry. I could not be more ashamed of this community. The four "no" votes were a step backwards — signaling regression, hate and intolerance. History will mark these commissioners' place alongside the bigots and extremists of other eras. The fight is far from over, and in the end we will win. Good and right always do. The four commissioners had their chance and failed. But now we know where they stand and we can move forward.
Kaitlyn Little, Tampa_______________________
On the same day that the Hillsborough County Commission was meeting with the principals of the Tampa Bay Rays, a vote to allow county residents a domestic partnership registry was being defeated. The Rays should remind the commission that the Rays is an inclusive organization and that this vote is not in line with those values.Twenty years ago, the NFL informed Ye Mystic Krewe that the NFL would not tolerate having the Super Bowl associated with an organization that was not inclusive. So too should Major League Baseball and the Tampa Bay Rays remind the county that
there are consequences to its acts as well.
Jeff Thofner, Tampa
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What Stogie Had For Lunch
$4.99 at Excel Food and Fuel, Bay and S. Dale Mabry Hwy Tampa.
Great food from a c. store.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Local Hero Mark Tillery
Tracking down Mark Tillery isn't hard. Monday through Thursday, the retired autoworker can be found volunteering at the Salvation Army St. Petersburg Area Command. He could be in the nonprofit organization's free cafe serving coffee to patrons. Or outside in the Garden of Hope, harvesting vegetables used in the Army's kitchen for its feeding program.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Happy Birthday Sarah
Stogie's favorite singer is 45 years young today. She has a new album out.
I hope she visits us again soon. Enjoy.
Sarah McLachlan
Steps Forward for the chronically homeless in Tampa
and business executives.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Anybody But Higginbotham
Hillsborough Commission District 7 Seat
Names Stogie likes.
Mary Mulhern, April Griffin and Rose Ferlita.
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Names Stogie likes.
Mary Mulhern, April Griffin and Rose Ferlita.
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Why Did the Rooster Cross the Road in Ybor City?
I can’t believe the City of Tampa isn’t paying me for this stuff.
Finding Tampa
Wasserman Schultz Is Wrong
Florida Congresswoman, and Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told a South Florida crowd the economic embargo on Cuba should remain in place.
It's Time For The U.S. To End Its Senseless Embargo Of Cuba.
The nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, Sen. John Kerry, once held up millions of dollars in funding for secretive U.S. democracy-building programs in Cuba. Defense Secretary hopeful Chuck Hagel has called the U.S. embargo against the communist-run island "nonsensical" and anachronistic. Both men are now poised to occupy two of the most important positions in President Barack Obama's Cabinet, leading observers on both sides of the Florida Straits to say the time could be ripe for a reboot in relations between the longtime Cold War enemies.
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Help, end the war on the Cuban people, they are being held hostage by a small group of Right-Wing Extremist in South Florida.
Help, end the war on the Cuban people, they are being held hostage by a small group of Right-Wing Extremist in South Florida.
Stop The MCM.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
I Hate Tampa Bay
I am not a big fan of the city of Tampa. As far as I could tell, the only businesses in Tampa are used car lots, pawn shops, strip clubs, and medical malpractice attorneys. The baseball stadium sucks. Ybor City is where the clubs used to be, and it harbored some of the worst music anywhere........Greg Miller the singer of The Whiskey Daredevils, a group of barely talented dead beat no frills rockers.
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