Tracking Idalia’s impacts in Tampa Bay

While it will feel more humid today in the Tampa Bay area, there will be no direct impacts from Tropical Storm Idalia today. Temperatures climb into the low 90s with a 60% chance of afternoon and evening downpours.

The rain bands from Idalia start arriving tomorrow afternoon as the system strengthens in the Gulf of Mexico.

Those bands will push from south to north, and wind gusts could reach 20-30 mph at times.

Idalia is expected to make landfall just north of the Tampa Bay area early Wednesday. Our strongest wind gusts will be overnight Tuesday and through Wednesday morning. An onshore wind flow combined with higher tides due to the super moon will lead to coastal flooding in many areas. Storm surge could reach 7-10 feet in Citrus & Hernando counties. The surge will be slightly lower for Pasco & Pinellas.

The storm races off the northeast after landfall Wednesday morning, and our wind quickly calms down. We are left with scattered afternoon storms Thursday and Friday, and it should be drier for the weekend.

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Marco Rubio Wants to Decide Who’s a Dictator or Terrorist

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DEATH WISH: Ron DeSantis and his contempt for senior citizens

Social security is at risk, and the conservative answer seems to be finding ways to avoid paying out to those senior citizens who’ve spent their lives paying in.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is again using life expectancy as an excuse to cut social security — though he’s now using the exact opposite argument from what he presented a decade ago. Back then, DeSantis suggested that with increasing life expectancy, social security must be cut, and now, he’s instead citing the shorter lifespans of today’s senior citizens.

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Rep. Frost on racially motivated Florida shooting

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Jerk Chicken

Rice and Beans and Cabbage 

$6.49 Lunch Special 

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Tampa's Best Jamaican Food!

Medicare for All Florida: Virtual Town Hall

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City Of Tampa Activating Sandbag Locations

The City of Tampa’s Emergency Management teams continue to monitor potential severe weather, which may impact the region within the next few days.

As a precaution, the City of Tampa is activating three sandbag distribution sites beginning Sunday, August 27, 2023.

Information HERE

New year at New College begins with change, confusion and many questions

Our visit to New College of Florida in Sarasota began at the dorms, where new students were still settling in and returning students were settling back into a new reality on campus.  “Uh- scary, I think,” is how Marshall Bustamante described the start of his fourth and final year at New College.  Just before the start of the semester, he learned earning his senior stripes no longer guaranteed him first choice at senior digs.

Nothing Butt Rock Fest 2023 in Ybor City

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JENerational Change: Trump ARRESTED, GOP Debate Recap, Cornel West's Taxes w/ Heidi Briones & Melik Abdul

Hosted by Jen Perelman and Peter Hager

We are back to recap the GOP Debate that just happened last night, and today we are joined by Heidi Briones and Melik Abdul. We'll go over the key points from the debate, as well as go into the recent comments Cornel West made on his taxes when talking with Tim Black. 

We'll also be covering the recent actions from Climate Defiance to disrupt a millionaire/billionaire Democrat fundraising event, only to be told that these Democrat donors "Don't Care if You Die".

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Meet The Brewery in Seminole Heights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 AT 6 PM

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'Slavery Was Good' DeSantis Suspends Florida's Only Black Woman State Attorney

What Stogie Had For Lunch

BBQ Chicken

 With Beans, Rice and Cabbage

$6.49 Lunch Special 

Hines Caribbean Cuisine

3313 N. Nebraska Ave, Ybor Heights

Tampa's Best Jamaican Food!

DeSantis Suffers Embarrassing Mistake As Chris Christie Attack BACKFIRES In His Face

Broadband subsidy program that millions use will expire next year if Congress doesn’t act

The Affordable Connectivity Program has not reached everyone who is eligible. According to an Associated Press analysis of enrollment and census data, less than than 40% of eligible households have utilized the program, which provides monthly subsidies of $30, and in some cases, up to $75, to help pay for internet connections.

But the program's future is uncertain. Its primary source of funding, a $14.2 billion allocation, is projected to run out by the middle of 2024. That could end access to affordable broadband for millions of people and hinder the Biden administration’s push to bring connectivity to the people who need it most.

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Trump co-defendant denied bond, held in jail

One of the defendants in the Georgia election fraud racketeering case was denied bail on Friday and will now remain at the Fulton County Jail pending further proceedings.

Harrison Floyd, the leader of Black Voices for Trump and the only Black defendant in the case, was deemed a flight risk by a state judge after turning himself in Thursday morning.

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Florida Legislative Report Card Reveals Which Lawmakers Put ‘People First’

Public interest groups Progress Florida and Florida Watch today unveiled their 2023 “People First” Report Card, grading Florida lawmakers on key floor votes cast during this year’s legislative session. The report card’s grades take into account how each legislator voted across a wide spectrum of issues including reproductive freedom, civil rights, public education, government transparency, safeguarding democracy, housing affordability, environmental protection, and more.....MORE

Lake County lawmakers decry ‘virtue signaling’ as Mount Dora joins ‘Safe Place Program’

Nearby law enforcement agencies in Orlando and Orange and Osceola counties have joined the same program.

Mount Dora Police Department is on tap to become the 377th law enforcement agency engaged in a “Safe Place Program” — but the Lake County legislative delegation is urging the city to turn back now before it makes the city unsafe.

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Prevention program looks to address student, family homelessness in Hillsborough County

Pathways to Hope is funded by the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County and run by Metropolitan Ministries in partnership with Hillsborough County Schools and the Hispanic Services Council.

The new prevention program provides support to families who are experiencing economic instability and housing insecurity.

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As Tampa’s homeless sweltered, city ‘cooling centers’ went mostly unused

“I’m going to die out here,” one woman said. “I’ll be 60 in October but I don’t think I’m going to make it.”

In response to the excessive heat warning and heat advisories, the city opened three centers last Thursday, offering light snacks and water throughout the weekend, eight hours per day for one week. But they haven’t attracted much traffic.

More HERE