A hundred years ago, it served as a horse stable for Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Most recently, it housed a micro-brewery. Today, the 103-year-old building in Ybor City is reinventing itself again, this time as a model for sustainable development..........more
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Project 3.0 In Ybor City
A hundred years ago, it served as a horse stable for Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Most recently, it housed a micro-brewery. Today, the 103-year-old building in Ybor City is reinventing itself again, this time as a model for sustainable development..........more
Kate In Her Hot Mama Jeans
Creative Loafing has a new website and I’m one of their contributing writers. They invited me to their launch party and I thought it’d be fun. That’s what I get for thinking. I put on my hot mama jeans, did my hair, and even applied some goddamn makeup. One of my favorite Republicans, Jim Johnson, said he’d meet me there so I stuck the boys with my mom for the evening and took off for South Tampa..........more
Cigars, Casitas and Children's Books
We took a trip to Ybor City, once the cigar capital of the world,where Cubans, Spaniards and Italians lived and worked........more
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Florida-Seasoned Craig Fugate
President Obama intends to nominate the head of Florida's emergency management office to lead FEMA, a post that came under national scrutiny in 2005 over what many said was the inept response to the damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina.......more
Tedd Webb: Obama And The Communist Party
The "changes" Barack has instituted are not new, they are the platform of the Communist Party USA, seriously. In 6 weeks Obama has managed to get this country on a collision course with Capitalism.............more
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Florida's Proposed Breeder Police Legislation
My great state has offered up twin bills, SB 2002 and HB 1249, to promote healthy dog breeding practices through warrantless home searches and a maze of often dubiously helpful restrictions for anyone housing ten or more dogs...........more
Nude Nite in Tampa
We got our hands stamped at the door. Fantastic. That ink never comes off with one washing. Now I have to go to work tomorrow with "NUDE NITE" on the back of my hand...........more
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo Zoom
Join Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo for the fourth annual ZOO Zoom, a 5K run that winds through the Zoo and along the scenic Hillsborough River..........here
Latreasa Goodman Of Fort Pierce, Florida
Last Saturday called police to complain that a cashier–citing a McDonald’s all sales are final policy–would not give her a refund..........more
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