Florida INC. Rancid Corpses

Thousands of scaly, rancid corpses dot the banks of the Indian River Lagoon, in clusters from Titusville to Melbourne, likely casualties of widespread algae that's bloomed for months.

Scientists say excess nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers, septic tanks, leaky sewer systems, air pollution and other sources is fueling the blooms. here

President Obama: Thank You From Tampa Cuban Americans

We never thought we would live to see this. 

Your legacy is secure with us!

Dear Marco Rubio

Rubio called Obama’s historic trip to Cuba “one of the most disgraceful trips ever taken by a U.S. president anywhere in the world.”
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"Mr. Rubio, we have tried it your way for over 50 years. All it has done is make the Cuban people suffer. The change you were looking for did not happen. It should be up to the Cubans on the island to decide how they want to be  governed not the deserters in Miami. Dialogue over Isolation works everytime. 
Now we have a chance to show them what Democracy looks like." YCS

St. Pete Pledging To Work Toward 100% Clean Energy

St. Petersburg is the first Florida city pledging to work toward 100% clean energy; Sharon Wright is the City of St. Petersburg’s sustainability coordinator and joined the Sierra Club Tuesday morning to officially launch the “Ready for 100” campaign. here

Free Rolling Stones Concert

Ciudad Deportiva - La Habana, Cuba

400,000 fans are expected

here. We want to go! 

VPC Spreading Into Florida

Voter Participation Center (VPC) is mailing 626,000 voter registration applications into Florida this month.  

Unmarried women, Latinos, African-Americans and millennials make up a strong majority — 58 percent — of the eligible voters in the state.  But 40 percent of them are not registered to vote.  

And the number of unregistered young voters is even higher: 

54 percent of millennial Floridians are not registered to vote.

here

Florida Right Winger Todd Schnitt Attacks Alan Grayson

"Recently, a right-wing hate radio host in Florida said that I’m a “mental defect,” that I’m “obnoxious” and “disgusting,” and that I’m a “media whore.”

The verbal mugger in this case was Todd Schnitt, a hatemonger whose radio show is carried in both Miami and Tampa, the two largest media markets in Florida." 

Rep. Alan Grayson

USF Solar Fair

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The Field: A Magical Place In Suitcase City

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Loser Marco Rubio Continues To Attack President Obama

Republican voters have had their say. They rejected Marco Rubio’s candidacy which was built largely on his accusations that President Obama “lacked class,” had committed sedition by “deliberately weakening America”. Four years from now, thousands of American families can celebrate their daughters and sons being alive thanks to the rejection of Rubio and his neoconservative, warmongering policies  by GOP voters which almost certainly would have seen the United States in another Iraq-like quagmire. here

Florida's Right Wing Infestation: Judge Pamela Campbell

Campbell (Pinellas and Pasco Counties) is an ideologue, who in 2006 was appointed to the bench by another ideologue, then-governor Jeb Bush, after having represented the parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in the politically-motivated case. here

Now working  the Hulk Hogan/Gawker Media trial

350 Pensacola In New Orleans

Members of the environmental activism group 350 Pensacola are in New Orleans today. The trip will coincide with the federal sale of leases to more than 42 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for new oil and gas development. here

Florida Is On The Extreme: Disenfranchise Prisoners

Florida voters weighed in on who should be the next president of the United States. But some 1.5 million Floridians are left out of that voting process: convicted felons. Florida is one of the worst states to commit a felony and expect ever to vote again, because you won’t be able to. here

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Panama City: Police State

“It’s a police state “When there are blue lights in front of Spinnaker and La Vela every night, that’s not welcoming. The sheriff has put the message out on social media that if you come to Panama City and drink on the beach you are going to jail. Not get a citation, but go to jail.” Sparky Sparkman, the owner of Spinnaker Beach Club. here

His business is down 85 to 90 percent compared to last Spring Break as college students have found other destinations in the wake of new laws, including a ban on drinking on the beach in March. Sparkman said it’s not just the Spring Break laws that have taken its toll; it’s also the heavy presence of law enforcement that has chased away spring breakers. 

Tampa's Historic Ties To Cuba

 " With Tampa's historic ties to Cuba, its time for relations to open up. I went to Cuba in January." Pat Kemp

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Roadblocks

Tampa Mayor Supports The MCM

Cuban Spies In Ybor City

Tampa To Lose Cuban Consulate Because Of 

Bob Bucknorn

Ybor City May Lose Cuban Consulate 

to St. Pete

Cuban Americans have a message for President Obama

Tampa Bay Sierra Club On Our Transportation Planning

"The Tampa Bay region pays a high price to remain the only major metropolitan area in America without a viable public transportation system. Permissive development policies in Hillsborough County created sprawling, cul-de-sac subdivisions that frustrate public transportation planning. Tampa will not attract the best and brightest entrepreneurs and professionals so essential to a vibrant, thriving economy if we continue to ignore their desire for walkable, bicycle friendly communities and a modern public transit system." 
Kent Bailey 

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Dems Wanted For Hillsborough County District 60

Florida GOP

Rebecca Smith and Jackie Toledo 

want to replace Dana Young.

No Democrat has yet entered the contest. 

here

11 Appalling Laws Pushed By Right-Wing Republicans: Florida #3 And #9

#3. Florida SB 1722/HB 1411: 
Anti-Abortion, Anti-Contraception, 
Anti-Women’s Health

#9. Florida HB 191: 
Fast Track to Fracking

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Florida Thanks You President Obama

Over the past two years, 

more than 100 local governments, 

100 members of Congress, 

1,000 small businesses, 

and hundreds of thousands of residents 

have voiced a bi-partisan call to protect 

our coast from the impacts of offshore drilling. Together we have stood up for the quality of life we enjoy on the Southeast coast and the booming tourism economy, which are dependent upon 

clean and healthy 

beaches and marshes. here

There Is Nothing Wrong With Ybor City's Image

The Chamber needs to do their job!

Tampa Keep It Below 20 Grams

The City Council on Thursday eased the penalties for carrying misdemeanor amounts of marijuana, creating the option of imposing a civil fine instead of arresting offenders. The ordinance would effectively decriminalize in Tampa the consequences of possessing up to 20 grams — or about three-quarters of an ounce — of marijuana.. here

What Stigie Had For Lunch

Baked Fish

With Moro and Platanos

$5.95 At LA41 in Lutz, like them on Facebook

Nice value meal, eat local!

Floridians Walking Across The Everglades

The Everglades is ailing, so dozens of Floridians will walk 80 miles across the system to highlight things they say are destroying everything from wildlife habitat to sacred burial grounds. here

Historic Ybor City, Florida

Tampa Bay Rays To Play In Cuba

St. Pete Mayor Kriseman will join President Obama for an historic game between the Rays and the Cuban National Team.  Local Treasure Mario Nunez along with his father, Felipe Nunez will also be there. here 

How cool is this!

Tampa Right Wing Attacks

Tampa tea party founder Sharon Calvert and conservative activist Sam Rashid have been relentless in their attacks on the Go Hillsborough transportation initiative, suggesting that rampant cronyism influenced the spending of $1.35 million in public funds. 

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But when county sheriff’s investigators last year asked Calvert and Rashid for evidence of wrong-doing, the critics came up empty. “Investigators asked if they had facts to support their claims and allegations but they had none to provide,” investigators said in records released Monday. here

Shit In The Water At Local Beaches

The Hillsborough County Health Department

Bahia Beach

Ben T. Davis Beach

Cypress Point Beach

here

Florida GOP Voters Stumped

Republican voters in the Sunshine State are wrestling with how they'll vote if Donald Trump is the GOP nominee. Some say a Trump nomination would force them to vote for a Democrat — or not at all. here

Upgrade Ken Hagan, Sandra Murman and Bob Buckhorn

GO Hillsborough 
Smoking Gun

Failure of Sheriff’s investigators to get deleted text messages.

After seeing the pattern of communication specifically around the PB selection timeframe, Investigators attempted to obtain any deleted text messages from the cell phones of Ms. Leytham, Commissioners Ken Hagan and Sandra Murman, and Mayor Bob Buckhorn. Investigators asked each person if they still possessed the cellphone they used during the 2014 time period. All four advised they had upgraded their cell phones and no longer possessed them. here

Stop TBX Spreading In Tampa

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Lazy Florida Dems

Turnout on Tuesday was 46 percent, the highest for a Florida presidential primary since 1976. More than 2.3 million Republicans voted, blowing past the 1.7 million Democrats. here

Welcome To Tampa

Expect Delays!

Rick Scott: Republican On Republican Violence

"If we spend another four months tearing each other apart, we will damage our ability to win in November. It's time for an end to the Republican on Republican violence. It's time for us to begin coming together, we've had a vigorous primary, now let's get serious about winning in November."Scott endorses Trump here

Trump says it's time to rally around him or expect 'riots' here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Jimmy

He is from Augusta, Georgia. Homeless 2 years.

In Winter Haven You Can Only Vote Republican

They hid the Democratic ballots 
in a closet.

Theresa Wibert of Polk County was shocked to arrive at her polling station only to be handed a Republican ballot – and then told that Democrats couldn’t vote there. “The boss came over and said we could vote for Republicans only,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it. I told them I wasn’t leaving … It sure wasn’t politically correct. We pushed it a little further and the lady called a few people. Finally, she looked in the bottom of a closet and found a box with the Democratic ballots. here

Pat Kemp Talking To Voters In The Heights

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Susan Smith Wing Of The Florida Democratic Party

"It's depressing how little the Florida Legislature (controlled by Republicans) cares about issues that impact the lives of working people. They only want to protect the interests of big business while coddling right wing religious nuts."

Susan Smith

sanctions for Commissioner Sandy Murman

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and State Attorney Mark Ober found no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing in how county staff, commissioners, and private consultant Beth Leytham acted in the months leading up to the selection of Leytham's client, Parsons Brinckerhoff, for the lucrative "Go Hillsborough" project. But the report corroborates 10Investigates findings that Leytham made a habit of influencing decision-makers behind the scenes. 
And Ober suggested sanctions for Commissioner Sandy Murman - and training for other commissioners - over non-criminal public records violations. here

French Bikers In Tampa

MLK and Highland

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Pam Bondi

The Shady Backstory Behind The Florida Attorney General’s Endorsement Of Donald Trump. here

Protect Tampa: Ybor City Fights Back

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Walk With Team Pat Kemp - Tampa PRIDE In Ybor City

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Trump Protest In Tampa

Trump Protesters outside the Tampa Convention Center

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Ybor City Hemp Fest 2016

8.7 -10AM - 6PM Ybor City

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