Sunday, September 10, 2023

Roosters of Ybor City

7th Ave

Housing First is a proven solution to homelessness in America


Providing a safe, secure roof overhead immediately, then addressing other social service needs, is the most humane response to the needs of both our clients and the unhoused whose struggles play out in our cities’ streets. It is also the most effective response, as Housing First’s success in venues from Houston to Helsinki shows. Housing First sharply reduces the number of people who are unhoused and cuts the high cost of government interventions connected to homelessness.....MORE

Ybor Life

7th Ave

DeSantis Cracks HARD With Aggressive Move Against Entire State


DPCTB Happy Hour in Tampa

9.14.2023 - 6 PM
The Independent - Seminole Heights

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Italian Sausage
With Ziti

NY, NY Pizza - Ybor City

Florida becomes first state to accept 'Classic Learning Test' as SAT, ACT alternative


The "Classic Learning Test" is an exam popular among Christian schools and conservative political groups.

Florida abortion rights at stake as state Supreme Court takes up challenge to GOP-led restrictions


Narcan hits pharmacy shelves eliminating need for prescription


A nasal spray that can be lifesaving after an overdose is hitting pharmacy shelves this week.

Looking at the new COVID-19 booster


Tampa Locavore

Glen at NY,NY Pizza in Ybor City

Things To Do In Tampa


Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise – here’s how you can still get free tests


COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are climbing heading into the fall, and although free testing isn’t as widely accessible as it once was, low- or no-cost tests may still be available.

The government’s program that mailed free tests through COVIDtests.gov has been suspended and as of June 1 is no longer accepting orders.

More HERE

FREAK OUT: Racist meltdown proves Ron DeSantis isn’t ready for prime time


On Thursday, an Air Force veteran confronted the governor about whether his policies, which are stuffed with racial animosity, along with very loose gun laws, set up an environment where the race-based shooting in Jacksonville was inevitable.....MORE

Saturday, September 9, 2023

Okapi in Tampa

November 8 - 8 PM

Uber 'teen accounts' now available in Tampa


Uber announced a new product Friday that will allow teenagers in Tampa to create their own specialized accounts.  According to the ride-sharing company, the program will allow parents and guardians to invite their teens ages 13-17 to make a specialized Uber account that will allow the teens to request their own rides and order food with parental supervision built in.

Ron DeSantis is 'functionally authoritarian'


Support The Merchants Of Ybor

7th Ave

Ron DeSantis Attacks Black Voter as Nazis March in Florida Streets!


Tampa Indie Night in Ybor City

November 10th - 6 PM
Crowbar - TIX

The Hidden Faces of Havana Cuba You Never See


TRAVESTY: How Republicans are DESTROYING women’s health care


The cruelty was always the point, and the warnings about abortion restrictions have been proven true.

When the Supreme Court ruled — as the then-president had promised he would appoint justices to do — that the half-century precedent of Roe v. Wade was not to be upheld, doctors, legal experts, and reproductive rights advocates warned that this would not only hurt people seeking to end pregnancies but also those who wanted to carry a pregnancy safely to term.

More HERE

Ybor Life

7th Ave

Gaetz Accidentally Admits That Trump Supporters Are Dangerous Lunatics


DESANTIS OUTRAGE: Moms for Liberty founder appointed to Florida ethics board


Gov. Ron DeSantis has proven that he doesn’t care that we know that he’s happy to court the far-right fringe, but now he’s appointing the far-right fringe to critical government agencies.

Even worse, he is appointing far-right extremists to positions where they will judge the ethics of others.

DeSantis just appointed Tina Descovich, the co-founder of Moms for Liberty, to the Florida Ethics Commission.

More HERE

Weekly Sunday Live Music Series in Seminole Heights

September 24th at 6:30pm

Mike Huckabee issues violent threat to the nation if Trump doesn’t win in 2024


What Stogie Had For Lunch

Ahi Tuna

With Bloody Mary

Front Porch - Seminole Heights

Federal drug prosecutor busted in Tampa


Ybor Paparazzi

Lexii

JENerational Change: Vaush: Biden Is Most "Pro-Union" President & Israel/Palestine w/ Miko Peled

Hosted by Jen Perelman and Peter Hager

Miko Peled, an anti-Zionist Israeli, joins us to discuss the Israel and Palestine conflict and shed light on both the reality there, and the importance of pushing back on the media propaganda coming out that is pro-Israel.

Also we will be discussing Joe Biden's record as a strike-busting anti-union candidate, among a flurry of lies saying he is the 'Most Pro-Union president of our lifetime'.

Ron DeSantis snipes at New Mexico Governor’s gun restrictions


New Mexico is called the Land of Enchantment. Yet Florida’s Governor is notably disenchanted with the Southwestern state after its Democratic Governor took a stand against guns.....MORE