Friends Of Stogie

In Tampa

Peter Allen For Governor Of Florida

The Independence Party Of Florida

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Destruction Of The Gulf Of Mexico

Do you live in an area that is being affected by the oil spill? Do you have photo or video of what's happening on the coastlines? We want to see your on-the-ground photos.

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Pensacola Beach Covered In Oil And Tar

Look At What These Monsters Have Done To Our Home!

Cathy Salustri's Hard Candy

2010 Florida Netroots Awards
Best New Blogger Nominee
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Gulf Oil Spill: A Catastrophe of Epic Proportions

As the Gulf oil spill crisis enters its fourth week, independent scientists estimate that the volume of this spill in one week matches that of the 1969 Exxon Valdez disaster, making the Gulf spill by far the worst such disaster in U.S. history......here
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Voting Now Open For 2010 Florida Netroots Awards

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Idiots In The News: Republican Rep. Joe Barton

On The $20 Billion BP Was Asked To Pay For The Gulf Cleanup
"I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subject to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion dollar shakedown...a $20 billion dollar slush fund."......Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas

Seize BP!

Oil Spill - WorldNet Daily Says It Was God

Carl Gallups - Hickory Hammock Baptist Church - Milton, Florida
Yes, that’s right folks. I knew it would be just a matter of time, but the tea bagger crazies are now claiming the oil spill in the Gulf was caused by God......here

Florida Beaches Turning Black

A Memo To Kendrick Meek

Kenneth Quinnell, the uber-smart new media director for the Kendrick Meek campaign, recently asked a few of us in the blogging community for feedback on “on the candidate, the campaign and our new media outreach efforts.” While I am sure Ken would have preferred for me to deliver my counsel privately, I wouldn’t tell him anything privately that I wouldn’t write on this blog. So here goes.......here

Kendrick Meek 2010

Otis Padgett

In 1971, after integration, Otis Padgett became band director at Buchanan, where his students racked up honors. He retired in 1990, died in 2004. A scholarship in his name has been established........here

Treehouse Presents: Infected Mushroom

At Czar In Ybor City
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Progressives and Obama

Norman Solomon: From Wall Street to the war, this isn't what progressive democrats voted for

The Refinery In Seminole Heights

Here The Mantra Is: Local, Local, Local.
The Refinery, on N Florida Avenue just south of Hillsborough Avenue, has a circle-of-life partnership with the Seminole Heights Community Garden, on Violet Street, just a nine-minute walk away......here

Florida State Board of Administration

Bill McCollum, Alex Sink, and Charlie Crist
If potential voters would read about the SBA, they would discover that trustees Alex Sink, Bill McCollum, and Charlie Crist are guilty of gross incompetence and negligence in the way they lost billions of our dollars as a result of ignoring the advice in at least 19 internal audits, while pandering to special interests.......here
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