The Ybor City Stogie

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Free PSTA bus rides for Pinellas County students, teachers and staff

As the 2023-2024 school year approaches, the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) will be offering students, teachers and staff free rides on all PSTA buses every day, the company announced Tuesday.....MORE

Florida school district says trans employees can’t use pronouns, bathrooms that match their gender identity

Florida’s Orange County Public Schools sent out a memo on Monday that says its transgender employees and contractors can’t use the pronouns or bathrooms that match their gender identity due to state law.....MORE

Supreme Court revives Biden’s ghost gun restrictions

The Supreme Court revived the Biden administration’s restrictions on so-called ghost guns in a 5-4 emergency ruling Tuesday.

The justices agreed to pause a lower court’s decision, which invalidated the regulation nationwide, as the administration continues its appeal.

More HERE

COVID hospitalizations jump again: Maps show where it’s worst

For the second week in a row, the number of people being admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 rose significantly, by more than 12%.

In about two dozen states, the surge in hospitalizations is far more than 12%. Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming all saw more than a 20% increase in new COVID hospitalizations.

More with interactive map HERE

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Stewed Chicken

With Beans, Rice and Cabbage

$6.49 Lunch Special

Hines Caribbean Cuisine

3313 N. Nebraska Ave, Ybor Heights

Tampa's Best Jamaican Food!

Back To School - Bicycle Safer Journey

Ybor Life

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Countdown Improv Festival is Back in Ybor City This Week

Leaders want feedback on combining Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough planning organizations

Could a regional Transportation Planning Organization be successful in Tampa Bay? That's the question local leaders are hoping you'll help them answer.

A new Florida law means Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties could merge into one Metropolitan Planning Organization.

More HERE

Hillsborough schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Florida rules

English teachers in Hillsborough County are preparing lessons for the new school year with only excerpts from William Shakespeare’s works.

Students will be assigned pages from the classics, which might include “Macbeth,” “Hamlet” and the time-honored teen favorite, “Romeo and Juliet.” But if they want to read them in their entirety, they will likely have to do it on their own time.

More HERE

Jewish leaders see corrosive effects in slavery curriculum debate

The state curriculum making the case that some slaves may have later benefited from skills developed during their enslavement undermines the lesson of chattel slavery, rabbis say.

“I find that absurd,” Rabbi Daniel Levin said of the notion that slaves were able to capitalize on the experience. “It would be like saying, ‘Well, you know the Holocaust wasn’t so bad. I mean, after all, Jews learned a lot of factory skills.’”

More HERE

Across Tampa Bay, a community effort to provide the facts on Florida's new immigration law

Provided by Adriana Dinis

St. Petersburg-based immigration attorney Adriana Dinis has had a busy summer.

Dinis, co-owner of the Immigration Law Group of Florida has crisscrossed the Tampa Bay region giving pro bono presentations to non-profit and community groups about Senate Bill 1718, Florida’s new law on undocumented immigrants.

More Info HERE

Monday, August 7, 2023

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JENerational Change: Let's Talk About Megan Rapinoe & A Divided America

Hosted by Jen Perelman and Peter Hager

We'll be discussing the U.S. Women's Soccer Team's NOT So Shocking Defeat to Sweden In The World Cup.. and the fallout that followed.

But first, we'll be speaking with Author & Academic Carol Anderson about her latest book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.

Teachers in Pinellas County say they're scrambling to prepare a new AP Psychology curriculum

Teachers in Pinellas County are preparing for school to start on Thursday but, before students come into their classrooms, some educators who teach AP Psychology say they’re having to revamp their curriculum at the last minute.

The problem comes because of confusion over whether the State Board of Education would allow AP Psychology to be taught in its entirety, which would include discussions over gender and sexual orientation.

More HERE