HART Ride

12:10 PM #39 - Riverhills Dr. and 56th St. 

12:40 PM #15 - Net Park Transfer Center

1:10 PM - Destination: Columbus Dr and Gomez Ave

Water Street Tampa Illustration

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Florida Right Wing Infestation Hillsborough County Chapter

Flip The Commission

An Immigrants Story

My father Arsenio Rodriguez was born in Pinar Del Rio, Cuba in 1923. His love of cooking came early in his life. In his twenties he owned a small place at the Lanchita de Regla, the place where you could catch a ferry to Havana. (Yes Cuba had a ferry across a bay over 70 years ago) There he would cook Cuban delicacies (Frituritas de Bacalao, Fritas, Croquetas, Papa Rellena, etc.) . Nearby there was a park where singles would come to mingle. The men would walk around the park clockwise, the women counterclockwise. That is where he met my mom. They soon married and had me and my brother. 

He went on to work at The Hotel Nacional De Cuba as a chef and cooked for the workers building the Havana Tunnel till the job was finished. He then became a Merchant Marine. Cooking on ships that traveled all over the world. In 1959 when Batista was overthrown he was in Tampa, he never got back on the ship. He did the paperwork necessary and brought my mom, brother and I in September of 1962 to Tampa. We moved to the Ponce De Leon housing project. We lived at 3 different locations there, Cano Ct., 23rd Ave and 26th Ave. I was 6 years old. I started 1st grade at Orange Grove Elementary. I knew no English. They put me in Mrs. Castellano's class who was trilingual (English, Spanish and Italian). The next year I got lucky and she was teaching 2nd grade so again she was my teacher. Doing this time my mom and dad added 2 girls to the family.

 My father worked hard, most times working 2 jobs. He would cook at one restaurant for lunch and another for dinner. He worked at many restaurants in Tampa, Spanish Park, Las Novedades, Valencia Gardens but his favorite was always The Columbia in Ybor City. He loved Cesar Gonsmart and was always bragging that he was a chef there. In 1967 he bought a 3 bedroom house in the East Tampa neighborhood of Highland Pines. He put $150 down and was paying $54 a month. We lived there for years till we moved to West Tampa where my mom still lives.

This beautiful wonderful man saw me come into this world.
 On August 21, 2017 at 5:10 PM I saw him leave.
I will never forget him!

Will be back!

RIP: Chef Arsenio Rodriguez

1923 - 2017

Born in Pinar Del Rio, Cuba. He loved to cook and was a veteran of Hotel Nacional de Cuba, JD Sandwich Shop, Spanish Park, Las Novedades, Valencia Gardens, Martha's Cantina and his favorite The Columbia - Ybor. 
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Jessica Vaughn's Lengthy Political Rant

At the end of the day, the only thing that defines you are the choices that you make in your life and how you treat yourself and other people. Not your skin color, your religion, your wealth, your gender, your age or any of the other ways you chose to identify or define yourself. 
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We are all one.
I really believe that good will triumph in the end. more

Andrew Gillum On Confederate Monuments

Joe Redner First Freedom

Tampa's own. Smart business & smart government. Free speech. Due process. Science. Compassion. Question authority. Respect facts. Environmentalist. 
Bernie 2020.

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Florida GOP Hurt Sick Kids To Help Big GOP Donors

In the spring and summer of 2015, the state switched more than 13,000 children out of a highly respected program called Children's Medical Services, or CMS, a part of Florida Medicaid. Parents and Florida pediatricians raise questions about the true reasons why

Florida's Republican administration switched the children's health plans. They question whether it was to financially reward insurance companies that had donated millions of dollars to the Republican Party of Florida.

"This was a way for the politicians to repay the entities that had contributed to their political campaigns and their political success, and it's the children who suffered."

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Tampa Paparazzi

Meet Jane

At Net Park Transfer Center collecting signatures 

to get ex-felons their right to vote back.

Local Hero Travis Malloy

 Travis Malloy was supposed to show up to the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club on Thursday to pick up his Citizen of the Year award at the Chamber of Commerce banquet. Instead, Malloy stayed away in protest. The club, he recently learned, will be hosting a "Southern Heritage" event with a "War on the South" program on Sept. 2.

"While it is their absolute right to do that, I do not want to lend my support to a club that would host such a group. here

Young Democratic Socialists of America at USF

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Right Wing Website "The Daily Stormer" Shut Down?

After Charlottesville The Daily Stormer did what many Alt Right outlets refused to do, they doubled down after the car murder took place, saying that the real tragedy was the car being destroyed and they were happy “the fat slut” was dead.

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 The hosting company promised to take down the website, and businesses were refusing to deal with the Daily Stormer.  They moved the website to the “Darkweb,” where it is only available through the Tor service.  This may give them anonymity, but it shrinks his reach to almost nothing. here

Watching The Right Wing Since 3.19.03

Tampa Confederate Monument Boarded Up 8/17/17

Tampa Bay Bike Taxi Co. Not A Free Service

Keith Works, he is not Kunte Kinte. 

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