Sunday, November 28, 2010

Progress Village Community Garden

The residents in Progress Village recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of the garden and they say it helps feed over a thousand people a year.
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Ybor City

Protester At Tampa International Airport

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Water And Sand Samples From Siesta Key Indicate Oil Contamination

Testings the Water – A Citizen’s Initiative has just posted water and sand samples showing oil contamination hundreds of miles south of the Florida panhandle on Florida’s west coast. The test results show that the sand samples taken in Sarasota Florida contained 173 Parts Per Million of Oil Contamination.
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Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Robert, Again
He Is Still Homeless. Still Looking For Work.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Kimbob
Beef, Ham, Cheese, Tuna Or Veggie.
$4.50.....At Sa Ri One Lunch Box, 8892 N. 56th Street, Temple Terrace
How Much Was Your Last Value Meal?
Eat Local!

New Floridian Benjamin Travolta

John Travolta, Kelly Preston Welcome Baby Boy!
Their son named Benjamin was born at an undisclosed Florida hospital on Tuesday.

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Congratulations!

Downtown Skyline

Finding Tampa

Wildlife at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo

Hillsborough County Commissioner Al Higginbotham

Stacking The Deck In Favor Of Development Interests.
He asked a prominent attorney for developers to vet prospective members of the city-county planning commission, the board that makes recommendations on land-use decisions. The attorney, Vin Marchetti, regularly appears before both the county and planning commissions on behalf of his clients.
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"It's entirely inappropriate,".....Jan Platt

"It concerns me that you have someone who is such a well-known land-use attorney making recommendations to county commissioners as to who the planning commissioners should be,"......Jan Smith