WMNF Day at Whole Foods Market

WMNF is giving you a way to support your station while shopping!

What: WMNF Day at Whole Foods Market - Tampa
When: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Where: Whole Foods Market - Tampa
1548 North Dale Mabry Highway
Tampa, FL 33607 (813) 874-9435
Time: 9am-9pm

During WMNF Day at Whole Foods Market, 5% of every purchase made that day will support the station! There are no special codes or coupons needed. From buying a small snack at the deli to doing your grocery shopping for the week, proceeds will add up to benefit WMNF and help fund Tropical Heatwave!

Rally In Downtown Tampa

Top 10 Reasons to Kick Scott Out

10. Rick Scott Refused High-Speed Rail

9. Rick Scott Slashed Over $1 Billion in Education Funding

8. Rick Scott Spent Millions of our Tax Dollars on Incentives for Companies that Never Created Jobs

7. Rick Scott Slashed Environmental Protections

6. Rick Scott Opposes Equality

5. Rick Scott Cut Jobless Benefits While Handing out Corporate Tax Breaks

4. Rick Scott Oversaw the Purge of Legal Voters

3. Rick Scott Doesn’t Stand for Florida’s Women

2. Rick Scott Has Long Waged a War on Affordable Healthcare

1. Scott is Responsible for FL’s Elections Debacle in 2012

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Friends Of Stogie

In Tampa

Who Is Tampa Bay's Hottest Politician?

Kevin Beckner

Bill Acklin

Doreen Hock-DiPolito

Jinty MacTavish

Karen Williams Seel

Steve Kornell

Jay Polglaze

Susan Latvala

Teresa Stevenson

 Pam Bondi

Charlie Crist

Linda Saul-Sena

April Griffin

Leslie Curran

Mark Sharpe

mary mulhern

Linda Norris


Allison M. Fernandez

Like Florida Strawberries? Got Sinkholes!

Farmers in Hillsborough and Polk counties pumped nearly 1 billion gallons of water a day out of the aquifer during the 11-day cold snap this month, causing 85 reported sinkholes in the region and about 700 complaints of dried-up or damaged residential wells, according to figures released Tuesday by the Southwest Florida Water Management District.

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Marco Rubio -- Knows Gangsta Rap!

Tampa Drive-In Chuch

Come as you are!

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Alex

Born and raised in Tampa. He has only been homeless for a week. Got into a argument with roomate over some bologna missing from frig.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Schiller's Club
With German Potato Salad
At Schiller's German Delicatessan in South Tampa
Allways Good!

Around The Bay

Jeffrey S. Bush
Seffner sinkhole swallows man. How sad is this? Rest in Peace Mr. Bush.
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We might be getting the Neighborhood University Mayor Bob  promised us when running for office.
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Tampa's Super  Squirrel. St. Pete  Mayor Bill Foster says his city has a better class of squirrel.
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And don't forget the Florida Brewers Guild Beer Fest @ Centennial Park today  
in Ybor City.  2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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Eric Deggans: Race-Baiter

One of Stogie's favorite local writers will hold a Community Conversation on race relations Thu, March 14, 2013, 7pm – 9pm at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 801 Third St. South in St. Pete. Explore the answers to these questions and your own with Eric Deggans, Tampa Bay Times TV/Media Critic and author of the new book, “Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.” WTSP Anchor Reginald Roundtree and Poynter Faculty and Diversity Director Kenny Irby join Deggans for what promises to be a lively discussion about coverage of race relations in 2013.
He will also sign your book.

info You can buy his book here or you can stay local and buy it at Inkwood Books,
Tampa's only full service INDEPENDENT bookstore.

Seminole Heights Fifty Shades of Hope Relay

A Cracked Door

ACLU Tampa Chapter's Annual Meeting

Saturday, March 9, 2013

The meeting is free and open to the public. There will be a meet-and-greet reception from 2:00 to 2:30 P.M with the program beginning immediately after.

for more information, click here or contact Mike Pheneger at ACLUFL_Tampa@Yahoo.com.

This is an opportunity for Tampa Bay area civil libertarians to join Susan Herman in discussing "Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis" with ACLU of Florida President, Col. Mike Pheneger and Howard Simon, Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida.

Florida's Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act

SB 1250: Authorizing a qualifying patient to possess and administer medical cannabis, and possess and use paraphernalia for a specified purpose; requiring a qualifying patient or the patient’s caregiver to present to a law enforcement officer a registry identification card to confirm that the person is authorized to possess, use, or administer medical cannabis or paraphernalia; requiring a qualifying patient or the patient’s caregiver to possess, use, or administer only medical cannabis that is obtained from a dispensary or medical cannabis farm, etc.

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State Senator Jeff Clemens, of Lake Worth, has introduced State Bill 1250 in Tallahassee.

Tampa Rally Against Voter Suppression

Tuesday, March 5th, 4:30 PM
Lykes Gaslight Park, 410 N. Franklin St.
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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Frita (Cuban Hamburger)
$3.50 At The Four n' One Food Truck Across the street from the Jan Platt Library in Tampa
 So Yummy!

Call It What It Really Is

Thanks to All Hat No Cattle