Saturday, February 9, 2013

Friends Of Stogie

At Gaspar's Patio in Temple Terrace

The Bass Pro Giveaway


14 people spoke against a proposal by the Hillsborough County Commission to dole out more than $6 million to a land developer for road improvements around a proposed Bass Pro Shops.

Local Views: The Cuban Advantage

Let me get this straight. Marco Rubio, current darling of the Republican Party, is going to be an authority on immigration? Isn't it a little ironic? As a son of Cuban immigrants, Cubans only need get to our shores and are granted full "amnesty." No evidence of moral character (whatever that means); no English as first language.We should start by addressing this arcane and unfair favoritism.
Leslie Sisto, St. Petersburg

Friday, February 8, 2013

Tampa Bay Rays

We Have No Money Over Here
Stay at the Trop where you belong. Ken Hagan will be out of a job soon and won't be able to help you.
We are not Miami-Dade or Arlington, Texas. If you get it on the ballot it will be defeated.

The Everglades Seafood Festival

Revenue Checkpoints Come to Florida

Get Well Mindy

Troubled country singer (Ft. Myers native) Mindy McCready has been committed to rehab for alcohol and mental health issues in the wake of her boyfriend, David Wilson’s, death last month. Addtionally, the 37-year-old’s two young sons have been removed from her Arkansas home. According to E!, a judge ordered McCready to treatment following an emergency hearing on Wednesday.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Marco Rubio Not Concerned About Climate Change

Higginbotham, Hagan, Murman, and Crist

The goal, is for Hillsborough County to “stop embarrassing us, and embarrassing itself.
“To stop a bully is really easy. But silence to a bully is encouragement. And right now there are too many people who feel the way we do, who are very silently shaking their head at the County Commission.
And we need them to be vocal and visible.”
Those were the words of Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, speaking at a town hall meeting in Ybor on Tuesday night. The meeting was a response to the controversial 4-3 vote last month by the Hillsborough County Commission, rejecting creation of a domestic partner registry.

The Fix and the Best of Florida

Cillizza and the team from The Fix are back again, and they want nominations for best state political blogs:
Now, I certainly wouldn't complain if some generous reader out there wanted to nominate The Spencerian. It would be a genuine honor, and I would be grateful. However, there are a lot of great blogs in this state, and I think they and their writers (and readers, for that matter) deserve a shot. So I am asking you think about other Florida blogs first. Go ahead.You can do it.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Wings
With a Bloody Mary
At Beef o'Bradys in Temple Terrace.

Ashley Judd for Kentucky

A Hollywood Liberal?

Or This Guy? remember This?
Mitch McConnell: Top Priority, Make Obama a One Term President. 
 Karl Rove (This guy is still in business?) must be worried.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Friends Of Stogie

At Gaspar's Patio in Temple Terrace

Sue Carlton: Tampa is not such a bad city after all

At last, someone who gets us.
Like me, maybe you found yourself a little irked at how Tampa was portrayed nationally as the Bayshore backdrop to a scandal that took down a CIA director. If you too were a tad offended by jokes of us being Jacksonville south, and also hotter and uglier than the surface of the moon, take heart.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

The Tampa Personal Chef

My name is Cristian Feher, I am the head chef at Tampa Bay Chef Services here in sunny Florida.
 I love to write about food and invite you to visit my blog!

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Hot Cuban
I stopped at Excel Food and Fuel at Bay and S. Dale Mabry in Tampa last week and had some great tacos.
I came back to try a Cuban.

Tampa Receives Federal Grant for Transit

Tampa was awarded $234,281 from the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Innovative Transit Workforce Development Program to implement "Meeting Today's and Tomorrow's Job Needs in Mass Transit," a recruitment and training partnership between the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc. (CDC of Tampa) and HART.
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