Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Help Rep. Maxwell Frost

When I announced I was running for Congress a year and a half ago, more than just a few people counted me out and wrote me off. They said I was too young - that I was setting my sights too high and should run for local office first. They said that because I didn’t have access to a network of wealthy donors who could write big checks I wouldn’t be able
 to fund my campaign.

I was the underdog candidate. No one expected a Gen Z, working class community organizer to win – but that was then.

And thanks to folks like you, Julio, who didn’t count me out, look at where we are now: We proved that Gen Z can run for office and WIN. WE did that. Together.
Now that we finally have a seat at the table, all eyes are on our youth-powered movement to see if we can keep up the momentum and wield our power into transformational change.
But the forces working against our movement haven’t changed a bit. In fact, they’ve ramped up now that I’m in Congress.
Our movement’s unprecedented win sounded the alarm for GOP leaders. They don’t want our generation to have a say in our own future. That’s why they’re already plotting to replace me
 in the next election.

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TBNEH Member Meeting

THURSDAY AT 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
200 W Waters Ave, Tampa

Congressman Maxwell Frost Speaks on Tyre Nichols


Monday, February 6, 2023

Famous Last Words in Ybor City

Crowbar - Ybor City

Matt Gaetz BURNS Himself With Agonizing Republican Stripping Plot On-Air


Tyler Barret 2022 SECA Winner

Ready to Vote?

Monday is the last day to register for Tampa's municipal election


Tampa Traveler Jeff Z in NYC

Norwegian Cruise Line heading out to sea down the Hudson past Lady liberty!

You've Gotta Try This: Tampa's Three Generations Food Truck


Two centuries-old buildings in downtown Tampa have been demolished

 

Monument preservationists hoped to save the centuries-old buildings in downtown Tampa at 514 and neighboring 520 N. Tampa Streets but the Florida State Department declared 514 N. Tampa St. not a historic building and ordered it torn down.

The city of Tampa then considered enforcing the historic designation on the other side, but the owners successfully lobbied against it.

The brick buildings were demolished over the weekend. A 42-storey residential tower is to be built on the site.....MORE

Ybor Life

7th Ave

Nepo Baby Matt Gaetz Calls People On Food Stamps Couch Potatoes


Party with Guido in SOHO


Call the "woke busters": Ron DeSantis sends volunteer army to snatch books from students' hands

 


Despite claiming to speak for "parents," it wasn't at all clear that the Manatee Patriots have many members with kids in school, and photos of their events suggest most of them have long aged out of the range where that's even remotely likely. The likelier explanation for what's going on here is that the "woke busters" are angry old white people who are taking out their resentments about social change on school-aged kids who are an easy target because they have very little social power and can't vote yet. Why should the Manatee Patriots care if their "activism" deprives kids of the basic educational resources they need to grow into healthy, productive adults? All that authoritarians care about is power and using that power to punish anyone who reminds them that they are a bunch of bigots......MORE

Tampa Historic Streetcar


What is behind Ron DeSantis’s Stop-Woke Act?

 


Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been grabbing national headlines with his relentless attacks on so-called "woke". In addition to his Stop-Woke (Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees) Act, which prohibits educational institutions and businesses from teaching students and employees anything that would cause anyone to "feel guilt, anguish or any form of psychological distress" due to their race, color, sex or national origin, he has barred University of Florida professors from giving evidence against the state’s voting law, claimed that professors at public [schools] have no right to freedom of speech, and organizing a “hostile takeover” of the New College of Florida, one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country.

Read more HERE

New renderings show baseball stadium in proposed 'GasWorx' District that would link Ybor and Channelside

 


"The City of Tampa released new renderings of a one-of-a-kind baseball stadium in the middle of the proposed GasWorx District, which would link Ybor and Channelside. 

The design shows the stadium just South of Ybor City and the Selmon Expressway, and just east of the Channel that is now home to a shipping hub.

The owner of the site, Darryl Shaw, did not want to comment on this stadium design, which came from a firm in Kansas City. The Rays, which had that design made, did not want to comment either.

More HERE

Ybor Life

7th Ave

Ron DeSantis ramps up war on education


Sunday, February 5, 2023

USF Spring Plant Festival

APRIL 15, 2023 AT 10 AM – 3 PM
USF Botanical Gardens - Tampa

Busel Trotters in Ybor City


Happy Hour Jams with the Noan Partly Duo

WEDNESDAY AT 5 PM

Tampa group holds rally demanding change in wake of Tyre Nichols' death

 


A few dozen people took to the streets in downtown Tampa Saturday to call for justice for 29-year-old Tyre Nichols. 

So far, five Memphis police officers have been charged in connection with his death. Community members say they're outraged by what happened and want to see changes in how communities are policed.

"I just couldn't believe the brutality of it," Tampa Bay Community Action Committee member Taylor Cook said.

More HERE

Jamaal Bowman Sends Message To Republicans & Ron DeSantis: ‘Read A Damn Book Or Two’


Tampa Hoods: Bayshore

Bayshore

Dozens gather at vigil for Tyre Nichols in Orlando


Famous Last Words, LIMBS, Dark Divine in Ybor City

Crowbar - Ybor City

Matt Gaetz LEFT SPEECHLESS after getting DESTROYED during Hearing


Tampa Hoods: Ybor City

8th Ave

Stef & Liam's Tampa Adventures | Florida Aquarium & USS Victory


State frantic for nurses

 


Fewer than two-thirds of Florida nursing students passed the national licensing exam in 2022, according to a new report from the Florida Center for Nursing.

The National Council Licensure Examination is the final step for graduates to become licensed health care providers in a state that is desperate for nurses.

Nursing staffs at Florida hospitals have been plagued by high turnover and a large number of vacancies, with projections that the state will be short nearly 60,000 nurses by 2035. Yet Florida has had the lowest exam pass rate in the nation since 2017, according to Tampa Bay Times analysis.

Pass rates for registered nurses fell by 1 percentage point from 2021, dropping to 63.9%, the new report said. That’s far below the national average pass rate of 79.9% for first-time U.S.-educated test-takers.

More HERE

Frost: 'I'm Looking Forward To Working With My Republican Colleagues' To Adequately Fund Agencies


Famous Last Words, LIMBS, Dark Divine in Ybor City

Crowbar - Ybor City