Connect Tampa Bay

Connect Tampa Bay, a new transportation education and advocacy organization, was launched Tuesday. Connect Tampa Bay will engage citizens across Tampa Bay who want to invest in more viable transportation options to improve economic development and quality of life. "Connect Tampa Bay aims to bring people together to understand the challenges we face from the lack of transportation options and advocate for solutions from the bottom up."

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The State Of The Tampa Bay Blogosphere

Still Going Strong

Madfloridian - Litbrit - Tampa Do-Gooder - Tiny Little Dots

St. Petersblog - The Spencerian - SOG City Oracle - Finding Tampa

Bartlett Park - Pushing Rope - R/CT - Alan Snel - Clark Brooks
The Ybor City Stogie

We Miss You

The State Of Sunshine - Out In Left Field - Tampa Backdoor Ways
Deep Something

When Something Isn't Working - Try Something Else

Fla GOP's breath-taking hubris and entitlement hardly limited to Jim Greer

The whole sorry story of the Florida Republican Party under Jim Greer is exhibit A on how near-absolute power, combined with astronomical campaign accounts, can and did breed breathtaking arrogance and entitlement, if not outright corruption, among party leaders professing conservatism.

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Traffic tickets, fraud probes deaths — and state Rep. Daphne Campbell

She’s a Democratic state representative who has another way to deal with future red-light tickets: file legislation to ban the traffic-surveillance cameras that shot video of her husband’s Honda Odyssey breaking traffic laws.
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Stogie likes this party. Florida Greens

Gasparilla Arts Month

Friends Of Stogie

In Temple Terrace

Florida Man Nation’s Worst Superhero

You know all those stranger-than-fiction news headlines detailing the bizarre exploits of someone identified only as "Florida man"? Imagine that all of those headlines referred to a single person, and that this person is superhero who causes mayhem wherever he goes.

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Mary Mulhern for Hillsborough County Commission, District 7

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Tampa Streetcar

Gulfport Waterfront

Dancing Everyday

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Burger and Fries
At Gaspar's Patio in Temple Terrace