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Crist for Senate 2.0?
As Florida politicos look ahead to 2016 (holy shit, that's next year), Democrats will have to decide which candidates they will offer up to get beaten with a giant stick made of shredded up Koch...
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More sparks fly in West Tampa/Seminole Heights runoff
Not wanting to debate your political opponent is usually a sign that a) you've got a comfortable lead and don't feel the need to convince people you're right on the issues, or b) you are afraid you...
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Transforming Tampa Bay: Pave less, prosper more
No one has ever accused a fast food restaurant or a drugstore chain of contributing charm to the public’s design conversation. These utilitarian structures tend to take up whole blocks, with lots of...
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Driving and driven: A Tampa activist advocates for the program that helps her...
Like a lot of people who traverse the Howard Frankland Bridge on a daily basis, Olivia Babis can’t wait for self-driving cars to go mainstream. She has an uncommon reason for such enthusiasm, though....
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Sh*t happened 3/12/15: District 6, cheese theft and an only barely related...
Hump Day. How was your Hump Day? It's about being in the middle of the week, jackass, stop thinking of a camel's genitalia. Is Jackie Toledo ducking Guido Maniscalco's challenge to a debate prior to...
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HuffPost profiles the man behind a controversial Pinellas homeless shelter
If you've lived in St. Pete for more than a few years, have you ever wondered where all the homeless people go at night? If you were here a decade ago, you may remember seeing scores of people...
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Sh*t happened 3/13/15: St. Pete noise, Manatee sex sting & Frozen 2
Good morrow. It's Friday the 13th, a day many fear or otherwise consider unlucky. Thank heavens we have yesterday's news to help put things into contextual perspective: The St. Pete city...
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Sh*t happened 3/16/15: Attack mailer, Hunahpu's Day, Valspar Championship
The weekends come and go. Some of them linger; others shoot by so fast we can hardly consider Friday before Monday's here. Let's not allow it all to slip past. Let's ruminate, shall we?FRIDAY, MARCH...
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Early voting in caustic Dist. 6 runoff begins
Early voting polling sites are open for the sixteen or so people who still plan on voting in the runoff election between city council hopefuls Guido Maniscalco and Jackie Toledo. Monday through...
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Sh*t happened 3/17/15: NCAA, Tampa makes Travel+Leisure's 20 quirkiest cities...
Monday was a steampunk tumbleweed rolling in ominous silence through an abandoned cowboy theme park without the help of a breeze. The USF women's basketball team found out they'll start their...
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That was quick: Crist not running for anything next year, but this other guy...
Our dream of another Charlie Crist campaign in 2016 — Senate, House or otherwise — was a short-lived one. Last week the former governor floated the idea of a 2016 Senate candidacy as a Democrat,...
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Rep. Castor calls out PSC chair on crappy energy policy
We already know Congressman Kathy Castor is cool. The Democrat, whose district includes parts of Tampa and a solidly Democratic part of south St. Pete (gerrymander much?), further confirmed her...
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Sh*t happened 3/18/15: Stray bullets, growler legislation and Bill Nye
Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day. If you remember yesterday at all, congratulations on more-or-less attaining adulthood, or possibly not really being Irish. If, on the other hand, you do not remember...
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Senator Scott? President Trump? Welcome to the batsh*ttening
As the candidate rosters for the 2016 U.S. Senate and presidential races solidify, Tampa Bay Times political editor Adam Smith is reporting that Governor Rick Scott has his beady little eyes on an...
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Unlike Tallahassee, intelligent climate change talks happen in Hillsborough
Say what you will about carbon sequestration, but if a governing body unanimously supports it, said governing body obviously knows a) there is an excess of CO2 in the atmosphere that is damaging our...
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Climate madness: A Cornell scientist talks climate change, sustainability and...
The timing is impeccable for Cornell University horticulture professor David Walter Wolfe’s visit to Eckerd College, where he’ll give a public discussion on climate change and its impact on our food...
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Fast food workers protest working conditions in Tampa
Nearly 100 activists with the Fight for 15 movement took to the streets Wednesday afternoon. They gathered outside a Busch Boulevard McDonald's to express their opposition to the conditions employees...
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Sole debate ahead of Dist. 6 runoff will be a tad one-sided
The excessively heated battle for a Tampa City Council seat continues to rage, but don't expect any sparks to fly at a debate set for tonight. That's because it won't really be a debate, given that...
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Bad mood rising: Nasty campaigning in Tampa’s District 6 City Council runoff...
They’re supposed to be talking about potholes. But alas, the runoff election for Tampa’s District 6 City Council seat has deteriorated into the same tit-for-tat we’re used to seeing at the state and...
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Sh*t happened 3/20/15: March Madness, another Chappelle show
We gave you a break from having to examine the social minutiae of existence yesterday, but we're back, and it hasn't really gotten any ... anything, really:March Madness officially begins. If you're...
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