Fernando Pacheco was the personal physician and cornerman for world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali as well as numerous other boxing champions. He was born in Ybor City. more
Friday, December 23, 2022
Ybor Roger: Ybor City's Golden Age
Ybor City grew and prospered during the first decades of the 20th century. Thousands of residents built a community that combined Cuban, Spanish, Italian, and Jewish culture. "Ybor City is Tampa's Spanish India," observed a visitor to the area, "What a colorful, screaming, shrill, and turbulent world." more
Thursday, December 22, 2022
The Harvest Food Pantry - Sarasota
Weekly Thursday Drive-Thru Distribution
3650 17th Street, Sarasota
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Local Historian Ybor Roger - Ybor City Establishment
In the early 1880s, Tampa was an isolated village with a population of less than 1000 and a struggling economy. However, its combination of a good port, Henry Plant's new railroad line, and humid climate attracted the attention of Vicente Martinez Ybor, a prominent Spanish cigar manufacturer.
Ybor had moved his cigar-making operation from Cuba to Key West, Florida, in 1869, due to political turmoil in the then-Spanish colony. But, labor unrest and the lack of room for expansion had him looking for another base of operations, preferably in his own company town. MORE
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Maxwell Frost: They’re going to hear us loud and clear
When Ron DeSantis told me “nobody wants to hear from you,” it only strengthened my resolve to prove them wrong on Election day. And that’s exactly what we did.
Last month, we delivered a HISTORIC win – for Floridians, for Gen Z, and for everyone who believes we deserve a better, more livable future and that we’ll no longer be silenced. They’re going to hear us loud and clear from here on out.
But this win didn’t come easily, and the next win won’t either. There is no shortage of people who want to see us fail. Who are desperate to keep young voters from casting their votes. Who are so determined to maintain their chokehold on our futures that they will spend MILLIONS attacking a young Afro-Cuban organizer’s campaign to make history and make change.
Together we defied the odds and proved everyone wrong. But the GOP, gun lobby, and countless other special interests won’t underestimate me or our movement again. Even though we just wrapped up this election, there are people already plotting to replace me in the next election.
I know this team is ready to fight back. But being elected as the first Gen Z member of Congress took every single dollar we raised, and if I’m going to keep our fight in Congress, we can’t take a single day off.
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WMNF Mid Point
LISTEN IN: To MidPoint, Dec. 21 at 10 am on WMNF Radio 88.5 FM & wmnf.org for our end-of-year wrap-up. Shelley will host Pulitizer Prize-winning editorial writer for the Tampa Bay Times and Visiting Prof of Professional Practice at USF Honors College, Dan Ruth! Dan will review the year's big local news stories, decry the death of civic literacy and civility in politics, and answer your questions from his perspective as a long-time journalist, political observer, and satirist. If you missed Dan at Tiger Bay, don't miss this! Join the convo for Dan's AMA by calling 813-239-9663, emailing dj@wmnf.org or texting 813-433-0885.
Photo: KImberly DeFalco
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