Happy Growler Day! Before you run off to get your new 64-ounce bottle full of sweet, sweet coping juice, let's have a quick look back at yesterday. You're gonna need that coping juice, wethinks.
Tampahas a homicide problem. The police are reportedly investigating twice the number of killings at this point than they were during the same period last year, and getting very little help from those in neighborhoods where young African-American men are murdering one another, but everybody still trusts one another more than they trust the cops. Go figure.
A Florida judgehas already blocked the recently passed law requiring women wanting abortions to wait an additional 24 hours. It's almost as if these damned activist judges refuse to view the Constitution through the lens of a religion not everyone in the country shares or wants guiding its legislation...
A Bradenton man apparently drowned after escaping a car he drove into a golf-course pond, then going back to try to retrieve some of his personal belongings. Which seems like it might be doable given that it's a golf-course pond, until you factor in whatever contributed to the guy driving into it in the first place.
And finally, the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA's new veggie vanwill be bringing fresh, healthy produce and more to the area's food deserts beginning July 10. And I know it's hot and the economy isn't really back where they say it is, but try not to shoot anybody over a nice head of lettuce, OK?