When VISIT FLORIDA negotiated a contract with a Tallahassee producer, the tourism agency agreed to pay him to create a cable fishing show that would showcase the state's hundreds of miles of shorelines, lakes and rivers. Since the first deal was made in 2012, VISIT FLORIDA paid Pat Roberts $2.8 million in taxpayer money for the show and allowed him to keep all of the advertising and sponsorship revenue. here
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Florida GOP Change Florida Forever To Florida Never
The budget that legislative leaders have approved calls for spending zero dollars on the Florida Forever program to buy up environmentally sensitive land.
That's not what the voters had in mind when they approved Amendment 1 in 2014 by an overwhelming margin. here
Mamas Bail Out Homecoming Dinner & Celebration In St. Pete
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Guest Blogger James Lamont: Thoughts on the Cross-Bay Ferry, Tampa Bay Buses and the Movement of People
Internal Borders
Two days before our voyage, in an admirably fierce display of people's journalism, the Tampa Bay Times laid waste to bus networks in both Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. Caitlin Johnston and Eli Zhang detail their sad track records when it comes to investing in mass transit and in making any real efforts to improve it over the course of decades. more
Two days before our voyage, in an admirably fierce display of people's journalism, the Tampa Bay Times laid waste to bus networks in both Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. Caitlin Johnston and Eli Zhang detail their sad track records when it comes to investing in mass transit and in making any real efforts to improve it over the course of decades. more
Florida GOP Ignores The Will Of The Voters
After months of testimony, bill drafting, amendments and insistence by lawmakers that they would honor "the will of the voters” who backed a constitutional amendment calling for a major expansion of access to medical marijuana, the Florida Legislature won't be passing any sort of legislation to implement that constitutional amendment. here
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“I’d say slim to none, and I just saw slim leave town.” Republican Bill Galvano
Florida GOP Bullshit 2017
1. A bill ratcheting up the drug war.
2. A half-billion cut to Medicaid, including a $157 million slash to South Florida hospitals.
3. A ridiculous bill allowing parents of children in public schools to object to the science taught in their kids' science books.
4. A bill to exempt 2.7 million criminal records from public view.
5. Making the Stand Your Ground law even stronger.
6. A medical marijuana bill that banned all forms of marijuana ingestion and then was amended to still ban smokable pot.
7. Allowing citizens to take guns into airports.
8. A blatantly unconstitutional bill increasing the penalties for crimes committed by undocumented people.
9. Forcing local residents to pay for electricity companies' random fracking projects across the country.
10. A bill forcing Medicaid recipients to work for their health care.
11. A 20-week abortion ban.
12. Asking the federal government to abolish the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judicial system.
Monday, May 8, 2017
Florida GOP Guts Prodigy Program By 80%
Prodigy has been funded consistently as a Juvenile Justice Prevention and Intervention program for almost 20 years and covers about 3500 youth every year in high risk zip codes in Pasco, Pinellas , Polk, Hillsborough
and Manatee counties.
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The implications are very real. For example, in Hillsborough county, The Prodigy program at FICS Multicultural Family Center will have to close. We serve 400+ at-risk youth every year. That's 400 kids and their families without services as of July 1, 2017, here
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Dayna Sparkle-Pony For Congress
Love Won In Ybor City
"The hate preachers officially
left Ybor at 12:16 a.m this Friday night!"
How you fight The Citrus Taliban 2.0.
"Time to wrap it up Pastor Keffner, your troops are
getting smaller, You are disturbing the guest in Ybor
and your fellow bigots (Westboro Bigets)
didn't even come and help you
getting smaller, You are disturbing the guest in Ybor
and your fellow bigots (Westboro Bigets)
didn't even come and help you
when they were in town. Leave Ybor alone.
We can still see each other on special occasions." YCS
THE DEFEAT WAS IN THEIR EYES.
THE DEFEAT WAS IN THEIR EYES.
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Out And Loud FL,
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Homefront Support for Florida's Wildlife In Tampa
Curfew In Forest Hills
Residents of Forest Hills are fearful about the potential deleterious effects resulting from the application of a fumigant on the Babe Zaharias Golf Course. Forest Hills residents, organized as the “Green Cities Alliance,” have been fighting against the chemical since it was first used on the Golf Course years ago. After protests by local citizens, Dow AgroSciences announced in 2009 that they would no longer use Curfew in Tampa.
---Now it is scheduled to be used at Babe Zaharias near the Hillsborough River beginning next Tuesday, May 9, and going thru Thursday, May 11.
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Ybor Wall Of Love: 5.5.17
Jimmy Dunson's Book Release And Book Signing Tonight
Hang out with local writer
and comrade Jimmy Dunson tonight.
Pick up your copy of his new book for $10
Ask Jimmy to sign it for you. .
Snacks and drinks will be provided,
but feel free to bring your own.
6PM - 207 W Idlewild Ave, Tampa
6PM - 207 W Idlewild Ave, Tampa
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Local Treasures,
Local Writers
All Florida Republicans Vote For Obamacare Replacement
The House has voted and every Florida Republican supported the bill except Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Miami.
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Most interesting were the votes of fellow Miami Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Mario Diaz-Balart, as Miami has a significant number of Obamacare recepients. here
Friday, May 5, 2017
Documenting The Resistance In Tampa Bay!
The Resistance In Tampa Bay!
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Miami's Radioactive Drinking Water
Florida Power & Light plans to inject their radioactive waste 3,000 feet underground, just below the aquifers where South Florida gets its drinking water. here
The Citrus Taliban In Florida
Florida Bills Would Let Citizens Remove Textbooks That Mention Climate Change and Evolution. here
Wall Of Love TUTU Party - Ybor Tonight
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Photographer Hilda Clayton
Her last picture – taken a split second before a mortar explosion killed her and four others in Afghanistan.
She was only 21.RIP here
Karina Skye - Florida Treasure
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Karina Skye,
Local Musicians,
Local Treasures
Local Merchants: Weekend Wife
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: Weekend Wife,
Local Merchants,
Stay Local,
Tampa Locavore
Photographer Tommy Beaumere
Check him out here
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Local Photographers,
Tommy Beaumere IV
Florida #2: Unsafe Drinking Water
More Floridians are exposed to unsafe drinking water than just about anywhere in the country, according to a new study. here
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Mariella Smith WMNF Interview
A Hillsborough County company is asking the county for permission to spread tons of human sewage waste over its property along the Manatee River system; but environmental activist Mariella Smith is fighting back against the proposal by Chris’s Plumbing Service. She calls it a ‘sludge farm. here
Labels:
Chris’s Plumbing Service,
Mariella Smith,
WMNF
The Citrus Taliban At May Day Rally In Tampa
Public VS Chris's Plumbing In Tampa
Labels:
Chris’s Plumbing Service,
Mariella Smith
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