Vélo Champ: Heights Vibes #StopTBX Bicycle Ride

Starting at Vélo Champ on Central Ave. #StopTBX bike rides is a casual, informative bicycle ride through the Seminole Heights, Tampa Heights and the V.M. Ybor neighborhoods. The ride is intended to help realize a brick-by-brick understanding of just how destructive the proposed Tampa Bay Express (TBX) interstate expansion plan will be. The ride will visit key properties, streets and areas that will be impacted, demolished or completely eleminated by FDOT's plan to further expand I-275 and I-4 interstate systems. here

Florida INC. Welcomes Polluters

Dump hazardous materials

No Fines

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is not enforcing laws against companies responsible for hazardous materials pollution or collecting the fines it could from polluters, according to a study released Thursday by an environmental group. here

SUPPORT THE COMPETITIVE WORKFORCE ACT!

For the first time in history, this Tuesday, January 26, the Florida legislature will vote on the Florida Competitive Workforce Act.  Send a message to your legislators today and tell them to support this non-discrimination protection for LGBT Floridians! here

Jeb Bush: Rick Synder Is A “Great Governor For Michigan”

Jeb Bush said Sunday that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should not have to resign for how the state handled the contaminated water crisis 

in Flint. here

Florida DOT Artsy Wall

I4 and 50th St. Tampa

Florida GOP On Climate Change

Marco Rubio “We are not going to make America a harder place to create jobs in order to pursue policies that will do absolutely nothing, nothing to change our climate, to change our weather, because America is a lot of things, the greatest country in the world, absolutely,” 

Jeb Bush "President Obama’s climate rule, is “irresponsible and ineffective,” and private-sector innovation is “the source of a lot more solutions than any government-imposed idea.”

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Rick Scott’s Corporate Welfare Plan Doused With Cold Water

Rick Scott’s push to secure $250 million

 in economic incentive money this year 

was doused with cold water, 

as one of the state’s top economists said alternative plans would create more jobs and come with a 

higher return on investment. here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Andrew

A local, homeless 10 years.

Rick Scott Points Florida in Same Direction as Flint, Michigan

Public clamor for a veto and against Florida Governor Rick Scott's signing, of a new "water policy" bill lands in the governor's bubble like a muted, padded sound. Scott doesn't see and he doesn't hear, except through the filter of political ambition. Motivated by the same set of drivers that helped propel Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to the governor's office in Michigan in 2010: strip environmental rules and regulations that are enforceable and replace them with lawyerly garbage. here

Pam Bondi's Millennium Laboratories Scandal

Someone should be going to prison in the Millennium Laboratories fraud scandal that was aided and abetted by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office. here

DWS Has The Skin Of A Gator

"The party chair is going to absorb criticism from any candidates, partisans, and it's just the way it is,'' she said after a press conference on guns in the Florida Capitol. "These are people that simply are expressing the normal, understandable frustration over what they think is a sinister thing over every corner. I have to just block that 

noise out and focus on doing my job. 
I'm from Florida. 

I have the skin of an alligator."  
Debbie Wasserman Schultz 

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare Package In Trouble

Tumbling financial markets are further clouding Gov.Rick Scott's push for $1 billion in tax cuts as the Legislature deals with a suddenly less rosy financial outlook and less money to divvy up. here

After All The Shit! Floridians Still Want Alan Grayson

Grayson still holds a 7-point lead after months of negative press generated by the Patrick Murphy campaign throwing everything including the kitchen sink at him, while the former South Florida Republican has endured virtually no critical attention from the media. here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Rib Eye Steak

With Black Beans and Rice

At Brocato sandwich shop in East Tampa

Visit them here

Florida Frakers: Ddisaster For The Everglades

Environmentalists are warning of a potential ecological disaster for the Everglades if state lawmakers approve a measure that would open the door to fracking in the sensitive wetlands. here

No Publix At USF

University of South Florida students, community members tell university administration: “Publix can’t set up shop on our campus until they respect farmworkers’ human rights!”

And they want you to help!  Here’s how…info

Free Screening: Coal Ash Stories - Tampa

1.29 - 7 PM

Seminole Heights Branch Library

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Jessica Rose - "Maybe"

Tix

Pam Bondi: Florida GOP Pawn

Bondi is a party pawn intent on carrying out partisan agendas through selective 

legal enforcement  Her failed political causes have mounted:

Taking a gay marriage challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court, fighting tooth and nail against medical marijuana and Obamacare, and even punting on taking on the banks responsible for Florida's historic foreclosure crisis. Her quixotic battles have made her a national darling of conservatives. She scans as a smart, sane version of Sarah Palin. here

"She is the most substantive attorney general we have had in recent memory," says state Rep. Dana Young, a Republican lawmaker from Tampa
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"You get the sense that rather than being the watchdog for the state, she is a mouthpiece for national political organizations," says state 
Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, a Democrat from Miami

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Best Cuban north of Havana

At The Crazy Cuban in Masaryktown

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Florida What’s So Bad About Fracking?

Besides leaking methane under and above ground, which makes people sick (ask Los Angeles), wasting millions of gallons of valuable water (ask California), causing earthquakes (ask Oklahoma), contaminated waste water no one wants, explosions that kill people (ask lots of places), there is one more big effect of fracking: undisclosed toxic chemicals put into our earth. here

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The current bills in our Florida legislation purport to “regulate” fracking, but as one representative stated, it is nothing more than a “welcome mat” to 

promote fracking. 

Ruby Ridge 2 In Florida

Inverness

The Peasants Of Florida INC.

With its low incomes and comparatively high cost of living, Florida ranks No. 5 on a list of states whose residents are most likely to live paycheck to paycheck.  

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Florida trails only 
Hawaii, California, New York and Alaska 
on the list compiled by Go Banking Rates. here
Let's Get To Work

Susan Smith To Talk Policy With Alan Grayson

"I'm very excited that Congressman Alan Grayson invited me, Nancy Carola Jacobson and Brook Hines to attend the Progressive Congress Strategy Summit in Baltimore next month. It's a great opportunity to network with other progressives and talk policy. Thank you, Congressman!" Susan Smith