Project No. 45403
Anybody Need A Seawall, Only $200
Project 45403 is a 480-foot-wide slope of concrete rubble along the Palm River that county crews completed on March 9. For motorists who see it while driving south on the Maydell Drive bridge, the wall stands as a jagged symbol of how one of the homeowners, a 67-year-old widow named Edna Walters, used connections to get the government to pay for a project of questionable public value.......more

"I agree with his politics, I'm determined to stop the county from giving itself away to the people who don't work for it.".......Roy Davis

Ralph Nader

2008

"No other country comes close to providing voters with such a small number of choices and making third party candidates hurdle an almost insuperable number of obstacles just to get on the ballot,".........here

Underwater Music Festival

Big Pine Key, Florida

More than 500 scuba divers and snorkelers listened to a local radio station's four-hour broadcast Saturday, piped in beneath the sea in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary........more

Public service announcements about coral reef preservation were played between musical selections.

CLICK HERE TO SEE 2006 EVENT PHOTOS

One Blair Down, One To Go
How the bulldogs of British journalism might have savaged a Florida politician
"Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair is facing calls for his resignation from taxpayer groups today after a St Petersburg Times investigation revealed that Blair pressured county officials to spend $1 million on the Noreast lake where he lives.......more

Robin Miller

Our Famous Local Video Maker

Natural Florida Thrives In State's Most Crowded County

Weedon Island Preserve

In Florida's most crowded county, not far from a greyhound track and a busy thoroughfare, kayakers paddle through a labyrinth of trails that wind for miles under the dense canopy of a stunning mangrove forest. Floating through those dark, cool tunnels, it's easy to forget that the gleaming highrises of downtown Tampa loom just on the other side of the bay or that this chunk of Gulf Coast Florida is so developed that there's hardly any available land left........more

Weedon Island Preserve

Little Gasparilla Island, Florida

Welcome Cuban Refugees

As the Cubans waited for the officials to arrive for processing, word of their presence spread through this island of mostly private vacation homes. Islanders came to Lowell's house with clothes, food and water. The joyful demeanor of the Cubans was infectious, with homeowners and vacationers alike laughing and becoming instant friends........more

Charlie, Another Great Action Hero

Hasta La Vista Baby, To Greenhouse Gases

The Republican governors of California and Florida gave the Bush administration the cold shoulder on Friday as Florida set new limits on greenhouse gas emissions and signed cooperation pacts on climate change with Germany and Britain........more

"Something is changing here in America, It's what I would call a new consensus.".......Matthias Machnig

Florida facing global warming effects now

Clinton And Edwards
Only Serious Candidates Need Apply
Serious “candidates,” or elite selectees, hate the idea of sharing the corporate media spotlight with the unselected. All of this is quite natural, as Edwards rubs elbows with the Council on Foreign Relations and Hillary is a Bilderberg doorstop. Serious candidates are arranged in advance by the elite and outsiders such as Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are not welcome, are in fact deeply resented......here
Mike Gravel

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Breaded Grouper With Yellow Rice, Red Beans, Platanos And Salad.
$5.95 At.........Seafood Palace 6207 Causeway Boulevard, Tampa

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