You are invited to Feed Your Head, a birthday party with the best in local flavor! Feed Your Head is the big celebration for two independent entities "serving" the community! Feed Your Head salutes WMNF's 34 years on the air and Ella's fourth year in business.
Protesters gathered on the corner of University and SW 13th Street outside of the University of Florida, Aug. 28, to demand no U.S. military intervention in Syria......more>
In Florida, sea level could rise 60 centimeters by 2060. The Florida Keys, especially vunerable because of their low altitude, are protecting themselves.
according to a survey they say tax dollars should go toward solving the homeless problem and improving transportation not building ball parks for MLB. Don't listen to Mayor Bob and Ken Hagan, if Pam Iorio runs again Mayor Bob will be looking for a new job. And Hagan's political career is over.Read Mitch Perry's wonderful piece here
Did anyone not expect Zimmerman to become a hero to the deeply racist right wing? He bagged himself a Negro and got away with it. It's a dream come true! That liberals and black people are disgusted is the icing on the cake......more>
Local blogger Peter Schorsch was the guy in the chicken suit that kept showing up at political events that St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Kathleen Ford didn't attend. The chicken always held the same sign: "Kathleen Ford: Too chicken to debate Foster + Kriseman." Schorsch posed in a chicken suit in the announcement on Facebook and confessed: "You're damn right I was behind the chicken! Bye-bye Kathleen"......more>
A new poll of 584 registered voters in Tampa finds little support for using taxpayer money for a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. The poll, from StPetePolls.org and commissioned by St. Petersburg political blogger Peter Schorsch, asked whether taxpayer dollars should be used to help pay for a new Tampa Bay Rays baseball stadium in Tampa, 55.9 percent of respondents said no, 36.4 percent said yes and 7.8 percent were unsure.....more>
Don't let Mayor Bob fool you, remember Bush and the Rangers?
Financially, the Rangers deal was basically about real estate. By getting the city to build them a new stadium, Bush and his partners increased the team’s book value from $83 million to $138 million. This required convincing the city’s taxpayers that they would lose the team if they did not pay up for the stadium. To raise the $191 million it would cost to build the Ballpark at Arlington, residents were asked to add a half cent to what was already one of the nation’s highest sales tax rates. According to attorney Glenn Sodd, W.’s group helped egg along Arlington by leaking a story that Dallas was competing for the team and had offered to build them a stadium. “We found out that this was untrue..... more>