Saturday, December 8, 2018

Ybor City Musicians

Sara

YBOR CITY CHICKENS


CENTENNIAL PARK 2018 DEC 7

Remember Bush And The Texas Rangers?

The city spent $150,000 on an advertising campaign to persuade voters. Opponents of the deal couldn’t compete with glossy brochures, telemarketing calls, and a “Hands Around Arlington Day.” On Jan. 19, 1991, citizens of Arlington voted two-to-one to approve a sales-tax increase dedicated to building 
the new park.
Between the sales-tax revenue, state tax exemptions and other financial incentives, Texas taxpayers handed the privately owned Rangers more than $200 million in public subsidies. Taxpayers didn’t get a return from the stadium’s surging new revenues, either. The profits went almost exclusively to the team’s already wealthy owners. here

Florida GOP Dragging Feet on Restoring Voting Rights to Convicted Felons

People who report to Scott appear to be pumping the brakes on Amendment 4.
In advance of Amendment 4 going into effect in the new year, Scott’s Secretary of State Ken Detzner is saying that he has some issues with the rollout of the project. HERE

GoPro Drive Through Ybor City

Friday, December 7, 2018

Hillsborough Commissioners Seek Applications for Diversity Advisory Council

Hillsborough County Commissioners are seeking interested residents to serve on the Diversity Advisory Council. 
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The deadline to apply is Dec. 20, 2018.

The People Have Spoken - The BOCC Listened

Hillsborough County
Board of Commissioners Hearing
Public Comments
December 5, 2018
The fight begins

Ybor City - Paradise Lost?

Ybor City, Florida

Neighbors in Ybor City want more lights

Michael Isaak supports The Black Business Bus tour!

In addition to sponsoring a Bus, it is my pleasure to also donate 500 "Black Businesses Matter" bracelets. INFO

Climate Change Is Drowning Florida

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Vintage Rooster 2326 E 7th Ave.



"Ybor City is one of our favorite spots to spend a weekend — and it’s about to get a whole lot better courtesy of a new recurring weekend-long shopping event. The Vintage Roost is a 5,000 square foot market featuring 18 vendors offering items imbued with their own distinctive vintage flair. This DIY-inspired concept is setting up shop in the heart of the city.

We’re always here for more ways to shop local and support Tampa makers and entrepreneurs. So, we’re kind of blown away by the opportunity the Vintage Roost presents to residents, especially as the holidays approach.


Located at 2326 East 7th Avenue, the Vintage Roost takes place the 2nd and 4th weekends of each month. It will run from 9am-8pm on Friday, 9am-5pm on Saturday and 9am-5pm on Sunday."


~ thatsotampa.com~


Tampa Activist Life: March 2018

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Florida Keys unlawfully detaining and nearly deporting a U.S citizen


"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Monday that it had filed a lawsuit in conjunction with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) against a Florida sheriff’s office for unlawfully detaining and nearly deporting
a U.S citizen.
Peter Sean Brown was born in Philadelphia and has lived in Florida for the last 10 years. According to the complaint, Brown reported to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in April for violating his probation for a low-level marijuana offense and was subsequently detained longer than was required at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE believed Brown was a Jamaican undocumented immigrant of the same name, and was intent on deporting him. Despite his repeated pleas that he was a U.S. citizen with a birth certificate and a Florida driver’s license, Monroe County jail officers told him he was being sent to a country he had only been to once on a cruise."

The Merchants Of Ybor



Chillum
1714 7th Ave

Tampa Paparazzi

Joe Citro

Florida Everglades History

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Ybor Bartenders

Elaina at Reservoir Bar

Sheriff Grady Judd : People Die Everyday From Marijuana

Ybor City - Paradise Lost?

Ybor City, Florida

We warned You About this guy in 2014

Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacy White plans to sue the county and ask a judge to decide whether a citizens committee that will oversee the spending of the new sales transportation sales tax violates state law by usurping the authority of elected officials. The tax was approved by 57 percent of Hillsborough voters on Nov. 6. here
More on Mr. White here

Tampa Hoods

Ybor City

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

The Proposed Gentrification of Ybor City by the Tampa Bay Rays

Tomorrow morning I, along with several others, will be speaking before the Hillsborough County Board of County Commission in opposition to the proposed relocation of the Tampa Bay Rays to a new stadium in Ybor City. This is the graphic I plan to put on their overhead projector and the speech I plan to give.

Come on out to the meeting if you can and support those who are fighting to preserve the Ybor City community. The commission meeting is at 9:00am on the second floor of the County Center, 601 E. Kennedy Blvd.

Hillsborough County Commissioners on their way out the door

Last month, the LAME DUCK County Commission killed the MacDill Ferry Project in one of their final acts. After causing four years of delay, they threw away $500,000 of your money, and prevented the project from delivering REAL plans this January for 
moving forward.

So I'm bringing the ferry back to the new Commission this Wed to reinstate the Ferry Plan which would have been 
completed in January. 

Please email, call and all your commissioners.
I was the only vote to complete the plan, even though it passed with 7 to 0 support in Sept. And come down and speak at public comment before the meeting on Wed. Sign in before 9 am. Let them know you are watching. Thank you! (Stay tuned for more redo's on other terrible actions the old Commission did on the way out the door.) here
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"Pat Kemp is no longer alone on the County Commission where solutions to traffic gridlock have, up to now, been thwarted by narrow minded, shore-sighted, pro-development, pro-pavement, anti-transit troglodytes." 
Kent Bailey

The Merchants Of Ybor

New York, New York

Ybor Paparazzi

Asher and Merri at Chillum

End Of HART 360LX Brandon Mall

We heard it was going well but the mall complained, too many people were parking there to ride it.

Sunday, December 2, 2018

2020 Vision with Asher

If you are a presidential election “junkie” like I am, you are likely thinking about who will step up and run to be our 46th United States President. To me, a good platform on the issues is necessary for me to support someone, especially with a heated Democratic primary just ahead of us.

My candidate will need to be anti war. Someone who supports a full withdrawal from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen will earn gratitude from those who recognize the atrocity that is our War on Terror. These wars have kept the vacuum of terror wide open, poured billions of dollars per year away like expensive cat litter on an open wound, and cost thousands of American lives, not to mention thousands more veterans traumatically injured for life; not to mention the colossal damage we have done to the countries we have indefinitely occupied, whether in terms of massive instability or thousands dead and maimed. The War on Terror, and the money spent on appeasing defense contractors, must be controlled and stopped. This does not mean end counter terrorism or become isolationist. This means end the wars.

My candidate will need to oppose the War on Drugs. The legalization of cannabis nationwide should be a top priority. The decriminalization of other, harder drugs should also be on the agenda. Putting people in jail for use or possession of drugs does not solve the drug issue, it only exacerbated it, putting a strain on marginalized communities and taxpayers. We should follow examples like in Portugal where drug epidemics have been tackled by ending drug wars. We should hurt the black market and cartels by legalizing cannabis and decriminalizing other drugs. We should liberate non violent drug users/possessors by ending the abysmal War on Drugs.

My candidate will support environmental protection. In this, they should be an advocate for alternative energy, carbon taxes, and keeping corporations from polluting as they please. They should be in favor of healthcare expansion, ADA expansion, and securing liberties for the trans community. They should be opposed to “Teach to Test” education and support the protection of public education. They should support worker rights like a living wage, unionization, and safe workplaces. They should be progressive, independent minded, bold on the issues, and possess quality character.

With all of that said, I like Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, Beto O’Rourke, Andrew Gillum, Jeff Merkley, and Kirsten Gillibrand. Who do you like that will be good on the issues I mentioned?

katrine1101 visits Ybor City

Florida's Culture Of Corruption

Without draconian voting systems in Florida, Mississippi, and Texas, the GOP may not have survived the midterms with its Senate majority. source 
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Rick Scott removes elections supervisor
 Brenda Snipes. Source
Tim Canova warned us.
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Katherine Harris 2000

REMEMBER ME Y'all? 

Ybor Paparazzi

Asher and Glen

Republicans for the Rule of Law

A group of Republicans founded by conservative commentator Bill Kristol who are mobilizing against the president’s efforts to politicize the Department of Justice. It’s funded by the group Defending Democracy Together.
We represent the majority of Republicans who believe Robert Mueller should 
not be fired.”

Tampa Hoods

Ybor City

Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival

"Tampa friends! One of my fave #indiefilm directors/grad school friends Lonnie Martin has a screening in your town next week!" 
Dawn Michelle Morgan

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Ybor Paparazzi

Asher

Tampa Bay DSA 2018

Gulf of Mexico Fracking Dump

Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf of Mexico is in violation of federal law. more