Monday, May 9, 2016

Craft Beer Liberals In Tampa Heights



With the best pizza in town 


May Solidarity Sunday 
@ Lee's Grocery on Central Ave in The Heights
Join them here. Visit  the legendary Lee's Grocery here

Texas Polluters To Invade The Everglades

A Texas company won approval Friday to explore for oil at Big Cypress National Preserve. The work would take place across 70,000 acres straddling Alligator Alley about 10 miles west of the Broward County line, a region of cypress and pine forest, swamps and wet prairies that's home to Florida panthers, black bears and much more wildlife. here

Boycott Puerto Rican Summit In Orlando

For the last 7 years, the non-Boricua Dynamic Community Development Corporation of Miami has gotten away with benefiting from an an annual event in Orlando they call the Puerto Rican Summit. They charge corporations interested in targeting the large Boricua market between $5,000 and $10,000 to display their products and services at this annual Orlando two-day event. We cannot allow people to financially exploit the fact that we are a large and loyal consumer market. more

Florida: Shady Solar State

What do you call a super sunny state with regressive and oppressive solar policy, actively working to prevent the healthy development of this clean and affordable source of power? Ironic? Shameful? For those who love a good pun, perhaps “SHADY” is the best term.
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Center for Biological Diversity recently released a report outlining 10 sunny states that are working so hard to keep distributed (rooftop) solar from expanding, and the analysis explains how this unfortunate work is happening. here

Transgender Floridian Catherine Merchant

Catherine Merchant, a transgender woman from the Panhandle, was denied a name change by a state judge. Three years later, with the help of the ACLU of Florida, she won in her fight to have her legal name reflect who she is. This is her story in her own words: here

Saturday, May 7, 2016

The Stogie Asked To Remove WMNF Logo

From this post
Email from WMNF:
To Whom It May Concern: 
It has been called to my attention that you are using the WMNF logo on one of your posts without permission. 
Please remove the logo as soon as possible. 
Thank you.
Craig Kopp
General Manager
88.5 WMNF Community Conscious Radio
813-865-8256
Twitter: @wmnfcraigkopp

Do we have to remove them from these too? 
Mr. Kopp no worries, 
we will never do a post on you guys again!

HART Driver #4005

Thanks for the ride, Ivan!
The Magical #8
Downtown, Ybor City, Palm River, Clair Mel City,
 Progress Village and Brandon

Around here we travel light
Go HART!

Florida GOP Manny Diaz Jr.

State Rep. Manny Diaz Jr., a Hialeah Republican  has been a huge supporter of advancing the charter school system well above the traditional public school system and he is likely to amass more power over education policy and funding next legislative session. here

Feds Coming To Help Tampa

Federal authorities will conduct a preliminary civil rights investigation of TBX. Based on a complaint filed by local hero Matthew Suarez. here

Ybor City Chicken

With her babies.

Florida Trump Supporters

Rick Scott
Carlos Beruff
Ron DeSantis
Todd Wilcox