Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Money Dictates Florida Legislative Agenda

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How Ft. Lauderdale Handles The Homeless

Florida is now, and always has been in the postcard business. Not literally, in the sense that postcard sales make up a significant portion of Florida’s economy — more in the sense that the state itself, at least the parts that are visible to tourists and outside money, should ideally look exactly as pictured on the postcards they see.......more>

Hillsborough Dems Want A Crist-Rich Debate

The Hillsborough County
Democratic Party 

Passed a resolution urging a debate between Democratic candidates 

 Charlie Crist and Nan Rich

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The Un-Democratic Broward County Democratic Executive Committee
voted against a resolution calling for a primary debate.
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Ybor Surveillance

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 

Bacon Cheeseburger

At The Rainbow Restaurant in Mascotte

Florida Anheuser-Busch Distributors

There are 100 craft breweries in Florida,

and 31 of them are in Hillsborough County.

A bill backed by Anheuser-Busch distributors,

passed Monday by a state Senate committee

would put them out of business.

Commissioner Mark Sharpe tried in vain to help,

the other commissioners are sitting this one out.

Who is Anheuser-Busch?

They are owned by a Belgian-Brazilian

multinational beverage and brewing company headquartered in

 >Leuven, Belgium

 

Local distributors

Pepin Distributing -  Great Bay Distributors

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Why Are You Drinking Their Beer?

>Stay Local!

Florida Is 'Ground Zero' For Sea Level Rise

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What Tampa Bay might look like in 2073

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Florida Republicans are Rigging 'Voting REST-ROOMS'

Tampa Cabbie Goes To War With Lyft, Uber And Bob Buckhorn

I  have lived the life for 19 years and

I will fight for my livelihood.
This war has just begun.

 They are based out of Seattle and San Francisco. United and  Yellow were founded by local Tampons.

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Bob Buckhorn - the mayor of Tampa. This cat is the one that allowed the food trucks into downtown Tampa, completely ignoring the restaurants that pay taxes and are located downtown. He justified it, in the same way he is Lyft, that in this economy we need jobs. True, what we need are jobs that people can live off of. You are making beggars out of people Buckhorn. I guess  its good your wife had a good job before you got elected because you would have been flying a sign like the rest of the bums on the streets. No offense to bums. At least they work
and struggle every day.

The hardest thing you ever did was take your mutt to the dog park.

Gubernatorial Debate In Tampa

WEDU-TV, The Tampa Tribune and
Genesis Communications
have teamed up with community partners to host a Florida gubernatorial debate preceding this November's general election.
 

To be held at WEDU's Tampa studios 

And moderated by Local Legend
Rob Lorei
Managing editor of Florida This Week on WEDU-TV (PBS)
 

and co-founder of WMNF Radio.

GOP Selling George H.W. Bush Socks

ONLY $35.00

Critical Mass In St. Pete

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WHAT PAUL RYAN’S REPUBLICAN BUDGET MEANS FOR FLORIDA

20,921 millionaires would get an $87,000 tax break.

BUT...

Middle class families would pay
$2000 more in taxes.
290,401 seniors would pay more for medicine.
42,260 college students wouldn't receive Pell Grants.
3,569 domestic violence victims would lose access
to theSTOP Violence Against Women Program.
6,920 children would lose access to Head Start.

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Florida GOP Drunk At Taco Bell

Police in Tallahassee busted Florida GOP 
Rep. Dane Eagle 

Leaving a Taco Bell and nearly hitting a concrete median 
at 2 in the morning.

He got pulled over by Officer David Keller.

Despite refusing to take a field sobriety test, authorities said Eagle’s breath and vehicle smelled of alcohol. Eagle denied that he had been drinking, he rats on his friends  attributing the smell to friends who were riding with him earlier in the evening.

He also allegedly told Keller that he was “good to get home,”
despite stumbling
and falling when Keller asked him to walk to his patrol car. 

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Eagle, who was elected in 2012,
was arrested and charged with driving
under the influence. 

Florida: A Younger Population Is Pushing The State Left

Florida is getting younger

and thus a bit more politically liberal.

If a stroll down the Miami Beach’s famed boardwalk doesn’t persuade you, perhaps

U.S. Census data will.

In the 1970s, about 30 percent of Florida’s population was 45 or older. Today, those mid-lifers represent less than 5 percent of the Sunshine State’s population.

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Today In Pinellas: Greenlight Pinellas Millenials & Transit

PSTA will be hosting a special guest before their board meeting.

They’ll be hosting a discussion on

younger generations and transportation.
Poll after poll has told us that millennials and future generations are not as interested in cars as they are cell phones.  But, what transportation options do they want?

How can we make the case for more options?

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Floridian Charlene Dill

Charlene Dill, a hardworking young woman with

three children and three jobs,
Lost her life because
Florida GOP
Turn down $60,000,000,000.00
in federal aid that would have paid for her healthcare,

and the healthcare of one million other Floridians who comprise
the working poor.

After Congressman Alan Grayson told her sad story in a Tampa newspaper,

their Facebook page was inundated with over 600 comments. 

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Stop Fracking In The Everglades

A Texas oil company, Hughes Co.

was caught secretly and illegally fracking on endangered Florida panther habitat in the western Everglades. Their punishment?

A $25,000 slap on the wrist from Gov. Rick Scott

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