The Ybor City Stogie

Monday, December 10, 2018

Thanks Commissioner Pat Kemp

Words of Pat Kemp:

Thank you all for standing up and emailing & calling to bring back the ferry study/plan. We are back on track again! The BOCC had voted 5-1 to restart the ferry study/plan that we had already paid $500,000 to finally get done.(Only Comm. Les Miller voted no this time.) (Special thanks to Jae Passmore, Gwen Meyers, Cleo L. Townsend for making it
to the meeting.

In Sept, just 2 months ago, the BOCC approved the ferry study/plan by 7-0, then suddenly for no apparent reason put the ferry on the agenda on the lame-duck session and killed the study/plan 2 months into a 4 month plan by a 6-1 vote with only me supporting finishing the study/plan we had already mostly paid for.

Learn more about Mr. Miller here

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Holiday Parade In Ybor City

I was not covering this event. I was having dinner
and when I walked out found this.

Joe Citro and Luis Viera were coming by.

Before the parade.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Anchovie Pizza at New York, New York in Ybor

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EAT LOCAL!

Ybor City Cultural Center

Ybor City, Florida

Ybor City Homeless

Meet Eric

Tampa Locavore 2018

EAT LOCAL!

Saturday, December 8, 2018

Ybor City Musicians

Sara

YBOR CITY CHICKENS

CENTENNIAL PARK 2018 DEC 7

Remember Bush And The Texas Rangers?

Repost: December 11, 2014

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